Re: Webpage changes. (fwd)

[Andrew Smith <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>]

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:

> What does _ffuder_ mean?  It isn't in the lexicon.  How much stronger is
> it?  (Or are we supposed to use our imaginations on this one?) 
> 
Ffuder is derived from latin futuere and is commoning translated as 'to
copulate'.  It is good romance for the F-word, which the Conlang list
discussed in recent times as one of the few English profanities that may
not be Anglo-Saxon, although it has Germanic cognates.  Ffuded is cognate
with French _foutu_ which the wonderful Adrienne translates as 'fucking',
the adjective.

- andrew.

Andrew Smith                                  <hobbit@earthlight.co.nz>

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