The worst word

What's the worst word to you?

Racial epithets are horrible to me.

Turd, shit, and fart make me cringe.

Can't think of any other words that bother me.

I have never cared much for cunt.

I've always been rather fond of it myself...

I've been fond of mine.

...not that I have one...

I should mention that after seeing the vagina monologs I appreciate it more than in the past. It's still not a favorite though.

Cunt is probably the only word left in the English language that I mentally withdraw from.

People can drop the F-bomb and the N-bomb all day long and it won't even faze me, but if someone says "cunt", especially to a woman, well, I'm diverting my eyes from the ensuing carnage.

LF

God Im loving this new forum.
By far I think the worst word is fag. I know it has attained a slightly different meaning with the advent of the internet and mentally challenged ADD nine year olds who use it, however, the etymology of fag is horrific. The word fag actually means "a bundle of sticks or tinder for burning".
The word became attached to homosexuals during the second world war when the nazis literally used their bodies to start the fires for the furnaces. They reffered to homosexuals as "fags" for this purpose. While this post is far from the humorous faire weve seen so far in this forum... I felt it was a good time to mention where this horribly offensive and over-used word comes from.

I actually tend to think of cunt as possible to be used in a positive way, but then again I hang out with a very non-mainstream crowd.

Turd is annoying, just in it's hillbillyness.

"Turd shit and fart make me cringe"

I don't use turd very often, or shit or fart either really. But what shall we say in the company of good friends? I need to take a shit? I need to take a dump? I need to do #2? I need to use the bathroom? I need to use the euphemism?

:gags:
<-Hates Nazis.

Useful piece of information!

Smegma. *shudders*

OK, I'm repeating what I have said in a previous thread a while ago, so for those who read it then, please forgive me.

I have always felt it a great shame that a lot of middle-English words have been adopted as swearwords. We have simple, monosyllabic words to describe parts of our bodies:- head, hair, nose, eyes, chest, waist, thighs, feet, hands - um - generative organs.

'Cunt' is a lovely middle-English word that was once completely respectable, but has been tarnished by the self-disgust which caused the Victorians to use these words as curses. I think it will take a long time to repair the damage.

The Anglo-Saxon word was 'queynte', and from that is derived both 'cunt' and 'queen'. There is some debate in academic circles about the actual intention of the name of a street in London: Great Queen Street. I have seen one book which suggested that the modern transliteration of the name should be Great Cunt Street.

In any event, it is a word that describes the whole of the female genitals, and as such has no modern equivalent. 'Vagina' and 'vulva', as well as being clumsy latinisms only specifically refer to particular parts, not the whole thing.

I think that now these various words are being bandied about more frequently, they will come to lose their power to shock, and then perhaps we may reclaim them back into the language. If that ever happens, people will need some kind of verbal outlet to express their frustrations and anger. Perhaps we'll see a resurgence of the curse again (may your grandmother eat dung!) - at least that will bring some creativity back into the language!

heh, im not really offended by genital slang in its myriad forms, but racial epithets drive me CRAZY. i detest them with a mighty mighty passion.


"moist" is also a really horrible word. say it to yourself.

"moooooooist".

it sounds damp, sortof cold, and probably itchy.

I really hate the phrase "I jewed him down."

Oh god, I HATE that 'jew' word as an insult. It's recently regained popularity. First time for me to hear it was only a few years ago.

Nephilaine,

To me, 'moist' sounds damp, warm, slippery and welcoming.

Another bad word because of the mental images it brings:

Felching or Feltching

"Zounds!" used to be a very strong swear. It is a contraction of "God's wounds". It was used by crusaders and considered quite blasphemous.

At every opportunity I use it's companion swear: "Z'blood!" as in "God's blood"

"Nozzle" makes my skin crawl. "Moist" isn't much better.

But for sheer auditory hell, for me no word beats "replenish". Yeah, I'm a little weird I suppose.

For you Julian:
"Zounds! The water tank is empty!"
"Well then bring that moist nozzle over here so I can replenish it!"

*cries*