I vote that we bring the word "swyve" or "suive" if you prefer, back into
common usage.
This conversation is getting on my swyving nerves.
Crystal Premo
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Subject: Re: [Finale] Blowing O.T.
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:20:09 -0400
Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jul 16, 2005, at 11:46 PM, keith helgesen wrote:
I think I agree with you! After all, (to sail VERY close to the wind),
the
assertion is around that the acronym for "File Under Carnal Knowledge"
used
to be placed on Police files- thus creating the slang term for- well, you
know!
Beggin' your pardon, but that word is not slang. Here's how my dictionary
defines slang: 1) A kind of language esp. occurring in casual or playful
speech, usu. made up of short-lived coinages and figures of speech
*deliberately used in place of standard terms* [emphasis mine] for effects
such as raciness, humor, or irreverence. 2) Language peculiar to a group;
argot or jargon.
The F word (not to set off anybody's spam filters) is in fact standard
English. All it's numerous synonyms are either euphemisms, technical
jargon, or--slang.
Prior to the f word was a perfectly useful word -- suive, which hasn't
survived in usage and so has no bad connotations. Just a single syllable
verb to the act which our more touchy forebears relegated to being
discussed only as euphemisms. Chaucer used it to good advantage. And it
doesn't have any of the explosive possibility of the f word so it can't
really be used in its place, such as "suive you!"
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David H. Bailey
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