A woman can't fornicate. Well, not without consent of the king at least.

October 2, 2009 11:42 AM

I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I will die with a certain measure of satisfaction knowing that I put the sentence "Butch fucked the mannikin through the hole he drilled in its crotch" into the Oxford English Dictionary.

Using lots of NSFW language, OED editor for North America and author of The F-Word Jesse Sheidlower discusses the difficulties in defining sex acts for inclusion in a dictionary.

If all else fails, you could always let the Supreme Court decide.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (7 comments total)

Double.
posted by cardboard at 11:49 AM on October 2

It sure is nice that we've solved the world's problems to the extent that we can spare the time to debate whether a word, used by almost everyone, that commonly refers (in a somewhat vulgar fashion) to an act that almost everyone participates in and enjoys, causes solely upon hearing some sort of detrimental effect on children, almost all of whom are the result of that act.
posted by ghharr at 11:54 AM on October 2 [3 favorites has favorites]

When I was in Korea not too long ago, one of my brother's friends, a business student, asked me to teach him how to swear in English. "In slang," he said.

Well, it's complicated, I started. "Fuck" can mean anything, and with a handful of words, you can express pretty much any emotion or adopt them to any situation. It's like jazz, which coincidentally also meant fuck.

"Jazz means fuck," he said as he transcribed. "I will memorize that."
posted by klangklangston at 11:57 AM on October 2 [3 favorites has favorites]

You did find a minor issue though, in that the code that checks for duplicates links doesn't ignore anchors (and you linked to page 2 of this story).
posted by smackfu at 11:58 AM on October 2

are you talking about chugging brews or smoking fatties, ghharr?
posted by mannequito at 11:58 AM on October 2

bangling the bongle finger
posted by ghharr at 12:07 PM on October 2

I'm going to use irrumate in a sentence at the earliest opportunity.
posted by empath at 12:45 PM on October 2