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Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging
- klyrs 6y ago> The village was first officially inhabited in about 1070, but local lore suggests that a sixth-century Bavarian nobleman called Focko actually founded the settlement. A map dating from 1825 used the spelling Fuking. Weird (to me, an english speaker with no knowledge of modern or 11th century Austrian) that they went with Fugging and not, say, Focking.
- conformist 6y agoAs a German speaker, their choice seems quite natural, because it won't alter the modern pronunciation a lot. I'd even guess that the new spelling might represent a typical Austrian pronunciation with a soft "k" sound more accurately.
- Leherenn 6y agoIs Austrian like Swiss German where "gg" is "k"? If so the pronunciation might have not/barely changed for locals, but is no longer funny for English speakers.
- ephaeton 6y agoLocals don't speak a phonetically hard 'k' in the middle when refering to that village. If you heard them say the name, you'd not be sure whether to write it with gg or ck in the middle. (NB: I live in a village essentially next to Fucking)
- wirrbel 6y agoThis. I live in southern Germany (swabia) and many village names kind of have a 'standard german' spelling and a local pronunciation. I feel like Fugging might just be a change that reflects a more austrian pronunciation in the spelling.
- DNied 6y ago> Weird (to me, an english speaker with no knowledge of modern or 11th century Austrian) that they went with Fugging and not, say, Focking. All the time, they would have had people scraping away some paint turning the "o" into a "u"...
- krsdcbl 6y agoThere's actually another village called Fugging in Lower Austria, i assume the name was chosen to keep it phonetically close to Fucking but within the linguistic boundaries of "common" village names. Also, a "Fock" is a pig in Austrian and Bavarian dialects, so "Focking" would be indicative of "pigs place" or "where the pigs are from", which hardly sounds like a desirable name for ones village.
- IndySun 6y agoPigs as dirty is an outdated, mostly religious based, meme. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/the-joy-of-pigs-smart-clean-and-lean/2126/ https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/the-joy-of-pigs-smart-clean-...
- mulmen 6y agoOk but the town wasn't named after pigs so why change it now?
- mathieuh 6y agoRegardless, there are many idiomatic phrases that treat pigs as undesirable, e.g., "you filthy pig", "I'm sweating like a pig", "you've made a right pig's ear of that" etc. While your campaign to restore the dignity of the pig is admirable, I'm not sure it's going to catch on
- IndySun 6y agoI try. Maybe I might make one person think differently. Thanks for noticing.
- lostlogin 6y agoPigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal.
- IndySun 6y agoOnly if a human puts it there.
- wilg 6y agoI would have gone with Fraking
- tF73d78kq8t3R6n 6y agoI do believe you need the second `k`, ie “Frakking”.
- galonk 6y agoMaybe it's a weird sex thing involving Jonathan Frakes.
- idnefju 6y agoIt’s a sci-fi thing to get around censors. Famously used in BSG
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoThat would explain how to create the next generation.
- pndy 6y agoSo say we all
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- gaius_baltar 6y agoSo say we all.
- ephaeton 6y agogiven a neighboring village is named "Franking" that sounds like a bad idea :)
- KMnO4 6y agoI wonder if the residents will continue to get free [0] Pornhub Premium? [0]: https://www.pornhub.com/premiumplaces https://www.pornhub.com/premiumplaces (Note: SFW webpage, but still on the PH domain)
- scoot 6y agoSeems they fugged up there!
- haecceity 6y agoThis is clearly intentional.
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- detaro 6y agoPlaces do indeed rarely officially change their name by accident.
- flowerlad 6y agoWell, that's unfortunate that they decided to change the name. But there's always Intercourse, PA if you're looking for a fun sounding place to go: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Intercourse,+PA/@40.0368067,-76.1275931,14z/ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Intercourse,+PA/@40.036806...
- yial 6y agoKeep in mind you can also visit “Blue Balls” and “Paradise” PA which are both close by.
- jrootabega 6y agoBlue BaLL
- fartcannon 6y agoAnd Dildo, in Newfoundland https://maps.app.goo.gl/vCe2U3ZcK5bTbaDa7 https://maps.app.goo.gl/vCe2U3ZcK5bTbaDa7
- dghughes 6y agoAs a Canadian (and Atlantic Canadian) I often see people mention Dildo. But I get an even bigger kick that's Dildo across the harbour from Spread Eagle.
- ksaj 6y agoBird-in-hand gets you pretty close to Paradise, but not as nice as Intercourse. A lot of town names in that area are like this for some probably not-perverse reason.
- incanus77 6y agoWhen I was about 8 in southwestern PA, we took a trip to central PA to visit Gettysburg, the Amish Country, Hershey, and all that. We took a steam train ride that promised a "trip to paradise". I remember two things clearly about that train: 1. If you are sitting close enough to the front and lean out far enough, you get hot steam mist droplets painfully scalding your skin. 2. The train indeed went to Paradise, PA, with a big welcome sign, and I remember thinking "Is this a joke? I guess some people aren't very good at humor." I really don't know what I did expect or what would have impressed me more.
- flowerlad 6y agoA lot of people don't know this, but it takes about 30min to go from Petting to Fucking. See https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Fucking,+Austria/83367+Petting,+Germany/ https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Fucking,+Austria/83367+Petti...
- purerandomness 6y agoDoes that mean their beer, "Fucking Hell" [0] will have to rebrand? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_Hell
- ASalazarMX 6y agoFugging Heck
- bjohnson225 6y agoThat just reads like they wanted the name and came up with a story to fit. The village and the brewery aren’t even in the same country...
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- mtmail 6y agohttps://www.vaguelyrudeplacesmap.com/ https://www.vaguelyrudeplacesmap.com/ has a whole collection. To add confusion Austria will then have two places "Fugging, formerly known as Fucking".
- flickster 6y agoHaha what a surprise, my hometown, Wankum in Germany, is actually on this map
- growt 6y agoI liked "Austria" better. Oh, there is a comma, never mind.
- softbuilder 6y agoI misread the title as "Australia" and I was only slightly surprised and kind of impressed.
- howlgarnish 6y agoAustralia has plenty of fun place names too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittybong,_Victoria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittybong,_Victoria
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- chris_wot 6y agoNothing compares to Burrumbuttock.
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- vmception 6y agoahahaha that's not better! quick trip to Urbandictionary.com folks
- ASalazarMX 6y agoAh, Urban Dictionary, where you can search for any random word and it will have a sexual definition somewhere.
- vmception 6y agoUse the upvotes and downvotes as a guide Its worked accurately enough for decades to share a regional context
- 83457 6y agoShould have gone with Hugging for wholesome tourism.
- amiga-workbench 6y agoGreat, now its going to fuel Spurdo memes instead.
- kebman 6y agoLet's hope they change it back once they notice the acute loss in revenue from tourism.
- DoreenMichele 6y ago"Don’t people have any sense of humour these days?” asked one OOeN reader. Another noted: “They’re getting free publicity – they ought to have been happy to have a funny name." Free publicity that leads to sign posts being stolen. For a tiny village of 100 people, this is likely a serious hardship. If it isn't bringing in more money than it's costing them, it's an attractive nuisance, not free publicity.
- wraptile 6y agoI guess if monetized properly big part of those 100 people could live off the name alone. It's also sad to see this tiny cultural artifact go just because few people are inconvenienced. The stone roads and tiny alleys in the old town are inconvenient yet we don't go bulldozing it all down.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoHow do you think they can monetize it? How do you monetize random strangers coming to your town, taking photos of themselves in sometimes "lascivious poses" with your sign and sometimes stealing it? What's the business angle there? It's a tiny village. Such places often have a real sense of community that you don't have elsewhere. Injecting a lot of sexual nonsense into their little town because of the name likely feels rather rapey to them. That's sort of like the old fashioned advice that if a woman is going to be raped and can't avoid it, she should try to enjoy the ride -- which is all kinds of deeply offensive and morally depraved. These people find this behavior offense, offensive enough that they changed the name. They don't seem to find the name offensive. They seem to only find the behavior of random people coming to their village offensive and they don't know another way to stop it.
- setr 6y agoLike piracy, the easiest solution is probably to just sell a copy of the sign in a fashion (obviously) easier than theft. I doubt the thrill of theft is a significant driver of it.
- princevegeta89 6y agoWhat a coincidence lol. I just randomly read the wiki page about this city yesterday. And now this. Wow.
- t0astbread 6y agoThere's more to this: Apparently there's another village in Lower Austria (east of this one which is in Upper Austria) which also used to be called Fucking but was renamed to Fugging a long time ago. Then Fucking, Upper Austria attempted to change its name to Fugging but failed because of the name clash with Fugging, Lower Austria. Incidentally they have their name from the same source as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging_(Lower_Austria) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging_(Lower_Austria)
- baobabKoodaa 6y agoSo the villagers of "Fucking" got together to pitch ideas for a new village name that couldn't be made fun of, and they settled on... "Fugging"?
- anoncake 6y agoIt's probably the village's name in the local dialect.
- ithkuil 6y agoThere is also another town called fugging on another part of austria, that used to be spelled fucking but changed name more than a century ago. Language drift seems a reasonable guess.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoPerhaps it's just not a uncommon kind of name in that part of Europe? For example, there's the historically significant and wealthy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger_family which contains such august names as "Prince Hubertus Fugger von Babenhausen".
- jessaustin 6y agoA town near me is called "Licking". I've long thought that the only worse name would be "Sucking".
- peanut_worm 6y agoSpurdo’s influence is universal
- Kuraj 6y agoI knew I couldn't be the only one who thought the new name was much funnier than the old one!
- therockspush 6y agoFun story. There are currently 69 comments, im ruining that. Hopefully Fuckerberg, Austria never changes.
- zxcvbn4038 6y agoDon’t forget these guys, I’ve been to both - https://goo.gl/maps/tyDE578TkHtShaPp6 https://goo.gl/maps/tyDE578TkHtShaPp6 https://goo.gl/maps/anpHReZbbHGgNtki6 https://goo.gl/maps/anpHReZbbHGgNtki6
- qwerty456127 6y agoSo sad.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoWhy do people believe there are bad words?
- geofft 6y agoFor the same reason people believe there are words in the first place - social convention.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThere are vibrations of the air, sometimes people respond to those.
- papandada 6y agoWell, "bad words" may be vulgarities, profanities, or obscenities. As a layman I would say it's not the word itself but the concept which crosses some moral boundary.
- tzfld 6y agoThat is the question after all. Why the activity/concept described by the word is considered crossing moral boundary. Moral boundary of who?
- ddingus 6y agoQ: Why do people believe there are bad words? Advocacy mode = 1 This topic is close to my heart. I've done a significant amount of community work in my past, and inoculating members of it against offense, promoting mutual understanding works wonders, and there are greater implications on our speech and how it may come to be regulated should more of us continue to fail to get along well enough to make it all productive. Just want to share some hard won insights here, that's all and I am taking you seriously for a moment to highlight something important about "bad" words that your question leads to and that may be of value to others. In the US, the First Amendment is being questioned. There are lots of reasons for this, and they aren't all appropriate here. But, it's being questioned. The right to not be offended is coming up a lot too. Some of this is cultural imports / clashes as the globe continues to communicate across basically one Internet ...from other parts of the world where speech is considerably more regulated. And some of it boils down to people lacking the tools needed to handle a dialog properly. These two things aren't an inclusive treatment on this topic, they just stick right out. You are quite right. Words are just words. People are just people too, so let's explore that just a bit: Fact is, we are as offended as we think we are. Offensive, or bad, or profane words, are generally offensive in some fashion or other. Norms largely dictate which words fall into these buckets. Sometimes law differentiates words too. From Lessig: Human behavior is regulated by 4 basic forces, and they are physics, money, law, norms. Physics and money actually prevent actions. If the universe doesn't allow something, it's not gonna happen, or at least won't happen until our understanding of the rules improves enough to engineer it to happen. Fair enough, right? Money presents a cost barrier in a similar fashion. No money, no act, given a sufficient cost to inhibit said act. Similar work arounds, such as using other people's money are in play that parallel our understanding. The point being physics and money (or markets) actually inhibit actions. Law is a post fact force. Law doesn't actually prevent anything as much as it can bring a remedy, or civil cost to having done a thing, and having been caught doing it. Norms work like laws do, minus the courtroom in the vast majority of cases, however one may still experience significant personal costs when violating norms and having been called out, caught doing it. Back to being offended. It's all very subjective. A combination of words spoken to one person may be seen as ordinary, benign, laughable, and so forth, but not necessarily offensive, and for sure not criminal. Another person receives those words, and it's definitely offensive, and may be criminal in both the law and norm sense. (I'm using criminal as a parallel to violating a norm in a particular egregious manner such that there may be a public debate about having done it, and a sort of conviction related to the outcome of that debate, and it's for simplicity, not actually implying norms are in any way criminalized, nor should be, though in some parts of the world they are anyway, but I very seriously digress.) Given this subjectivity, it's both very hard to understand what might offend someone, and equally hard to understand whether someone is gaming the idea of being offended to gain advantage, position or leverage, or even standing somehow! Before I continue, there is weighting too. Truth is, some stranger we don't know, who may or may not know something about us, just doesn't garner much in the way of weight or credence. Context plays a big role here too, but I'm going to keep it simple. (sort of, this topic is hard) Boiled down, what can we do when someone online calls us an ass, or speaks of the profane, or vulgar? Go the other way, and say someone we know well, we value, that knows us does that? Ouch! And maybe that needs to hurt a little. The weight is more significant. Worth consideration, but still not worth righteous indignation any more than the other extreme is. Weigh that speech, first and foremost! And realize we all have options too: The most common is righteous indignation. It is by far the number one response, and in my view, a very significant contributor to the idea of free speech being of increasingly dubious value. It's also completely unnecessary! If we don't want conversations to go bad, then it's on us to manage our end of the conversation, use the options we have, weigh speech we encounter, and communicate clearly enough for others to understand us better. Where people don't do that, or expect someone else to do that for them, lots of problems crop up, and it's this dynamic that also puts speech under threat. Other options include: Humor --when a rando calls you an ass, laugh! That's about all it's worth. Other examples should follow easily. Redirect --Back the conversation up, communicate, attempt to get past the matter with better, ideally mutual understanding. End the dialog. Maybe it's just not worth continuing given someone is gaming being offended, or perhaps just has too many triggers for it to make meaningful conversation difficult, low value. Seek clarity. Intent, particularly via text, is extremely difficult to discern. It's often not possible to do it with sufficient fidelity to warrant being offended. So don't be. Getting clear on something is powerful, and it's often going to result in a greater bond between participants too. Mutual understanding is a powerful basis for trust and trust is a powerful vaccine against offense and conversations going badly that just don't have to go badly. Sidebar: On the topic of intent, a while back some people ran an experiment on Slashdot. The idea was simple, and it was for people to write out what various exchanges in a discussion thread meant to them. In other words, their "take" on the whole thing. These varied considerably from what people thought the real intent was! I participated in this and was stunned to learn most intent is implied, unless very directly stated in fairly formal terms. On your next few threads, consider this idea. Or better, review one as a non-participant. You will see errors in parsing intent run rampant, and may also understand more about why the burden to keep conversations good is a shared one, and why seeking to control others is often futile too. Just know the intent you perceive is extremely likely to not be what the writer intended, and their context being very different from yours. Culture, norms, station in life, etc... End Sidebar. There really aren't "bad" words. Just differences. And there is a shared burden here, not some inherent right to not be offended. We have no way to handle that in a meaningful way without also watering down speech to the point where we will begin to also fail to understand one another and even accurately represent who we are individually. (which drives more failure to understand, and that's a very bad cycle) Burden is on all of us here, both as speakers and as listeners. And there are options available to us and we should be using them long before we arrive at righteous indignation. If we do use them? "bad" words become an academic discussion, not a painful, or expensive one. Advocacy mode = 0
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- sandworm101 6y agoSimilar story: "World Taekwondo, called the World Taekwondo Federation until June 2017, is the international federation governing the sport of taekwondo and is a member of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF).[2] The body was renamed in June 2017 to avoid the "negative connotations" of the previously used initials WTF." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Taekwondo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Taekwondo
- ernesth 6y agoWhy do they need both a WTF (World Taekwondo) and a FIT (Internatinal Taekwondo Federation)?
- ochrist 6y agoAlso in Sweden the university hospital of Karolinska Institute had to drop the domain kus.se and go with karolinska.se as they got too many visitors from other countries. In Danish and other languages kusse means vagina. https://www.svd.se/karolinska-overger-dyrkopt-webbadress https://www.svd.se/karolinska-overger-dyrkopt-webbadress (in Swedish) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolinska_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolinska_Institute
- blahblehblooh 6y agoSoon someone will write graffiti under the current signpost: "Sometime in the past, we were actually Fucking"
- angry_octet 6y agoFugg. Fugg! Fugg me. Fugg you. This is fugged. You fugger. WTF. Yes, it will suffice.
- ausidofp 6y agoTo paraphrase Tallulah Bankhead, so this is the village that can't spell "fuck". Too bad Tuli Kupferberg isn't around to see it.
- tomcooks 6y agoConsidering you cannot educate English speaking idiots, make a living out of them: Based on social media analysis see when there's a "high season" of idiots Buy domain fuckingaustria.com or something more clever. Get 100 tshirts with a town sign illustration, bumper stickers, mugs, wool hats and jumpers (which will be worn across all Europe by EU roaming English speakers on road tours), a roadside market permit, sell them and on the side offer informative pamphlets and mailing list subscriptions about the town and what locals do. Rinse and repeat while pushing what Fucking really is about, always with a deadpan take that leaves wondering wether you're serious or not. It's what New Zealand's president did with the country not being shown on several maps. Instead of a hissy fit, use humor to point at a problem. https://youtube.com/watch?v=HynsTvRVLiI https://youtube.com/watch?v=HynsTvRVLiI
- chrisseaton 6y agoThey don’t want the hassle of doing this stuff. I guess they just want to be left alone.
- lostlogin 6y ago> It's what New Zealand's president did We have a Prime Minister.
- sdiq 6y agoKumamoto in Japan has a similarly bad name in Swahili. If you break the city's name into 2 four-letter words, you get vagina (kuma) and hot (moto) in Swahili. Thankfully, Swahili speakers are not going to harass this city's residents anytime soon.
- signaru 6y agomeanwhile in Turkey, Batman can be found.
- tpoacher 6y agoYeah, you know nobody's going to mess with Batman though.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoThe joker who did would have to be crazy!
- tetris11 6y agoTurkey has bad city names even in its own language. Along the north coast, you will find a town called Çarşamba (Wednesday), which if you continue to drive for a few hours is followed by a town called Perşembe (Thursday).
- skrebbel 6y agoThe name of the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, means Monday as well iirc.
- dullgiulio 6y agoMost probably all these names just indicate market day...
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- onetimemanytime 6y agoI totally understand the Fuckers for doing this. Tourism? Nah. They'll just take a picture, buy a soda and leave. People want to live their quiet lives. Change the name and be done. >>Just across the border in Bavaria in Germany there is a village called Petting. I guess they kept going from petting to f* and the other way around for centuries.
- johannes1234321 6y agoIt's also possible to start at Kissing (200km away)
- onetimemanytime 6y ago200km is way too long between events :)
- martinko 6y agoTheyre called Fuckingers
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- irrational 6y agoWell, at least nobody will mix up Austria and Australia anymore.
- tpoacher 6y agoFugging idiots. It's like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs because she quacks too much.
- fabatka 6y agoIs it so hard to comprehend that maybe living in a nice Austrian village can be better without a golden egg-laying goose that is a huge nuisance? Not everyone is an entrepreneur who wants to make sacrifices in the holy name of $$$.
- tpoacher 6y agoI know, I agree 100% (I was being a bit provocative on purpose :p ). But, on a serious note, I think this will backfire. It's one thing to not have a knife in you, it's totally another to remove one that is already in because you'd rather it wasn't there in the first place. They are now officially 'the village formerly known as Fucking'. You can be sure the pranks will continue (possibly even more annoying because now people will be putting on an 'accent' when saying "Fugging"). I don't know what a better solution to this problem would be, but this doesn't mean I can recognise a bad solution when I see it.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoNot sure this is an improvement. The Fuggers were famous - perhaps even infamous - bankers.
- severak_cz 6y agoIn Czech republic there is a town called "Horní Police". I saw memes with it, but I dont't find it funny because in Czech it actually means just "Upper Shelf". (But I understand what does it mean for english speaking ppl.) But what I found more fascinating is that there is bus line number 666 going from Debki to Hel in Poland (Debki sounds bit like "depky" which is diminutive for depressions in Czech).
- Ultcyber 6y agoI can confirm the 666 bus - I go to the Hel peninsula often and it always makes me laugh
- Someone 6y agoSo, how long will it take for some internet subgroup to use the verb “to fug”? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fug https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fug: *Sound shift from fuck. Interjection fug Euphemistic form of fuck. quotations ▲ - 1985, Herbert A. Applebaum, Blue Chips, Brunswick Pub. Co., page 126: It's always somethin' or other. Ah, fug it. I'm away now. - 2012, Drew Campbell, Dead Letter House, →ISBN: Oh fug. Whad a mess. - 2015, Lynn Lindquist, Secret of the Sevens, →ISBN: “Why is this door locked?” she shouts. “Oh fug!”
- swebs 6y agoPeople use it all the time along with the Spurdo meme and ":D"
- j_4 6y agoIt's already pretty popular in what I'd call loosely 4chan-adjacent meme culture. https://www.google.com/search?q=spurdo+fug https://www.google.com/search?q=spurdo+fug :DD
- tug0fwar 6y agoBig G tracks you–we are different
- dirtnugget 6y agoI wonder if they will keep making this glorious beer: https://www.bierlinie-shop.de/a-640 https://www.bierlinie-shop.de/a-640 They clearly also had some fun with the name
- hardlianotion 6y agoNot better
- bsd44 6y ago"They finally grew weary of Fucking, its current name, which some experts say dates back to the 11th century." "Some have reportedly even stolen the signposts, leading the local authorities to use theft-resistant concrete when putting up replacements." It's sad and a disgrace that a town has to rename itself after a thousand years, because people whose intellectual capacity is questionable won't stop with the abuse. EDIT: I'm sure David Mitchell was right when he said that the world is calibrated for "idiots".
- fileeditview 6y agoThis signpost stealing seems to be a common thing. I know of a town in France called Condom which also suffered this fate a lot.
- krueger71 6y agoMaybe Batman, Turkey could help out?
- diegoperini 6y agoWe will never ever rename Batman!
- geek_at 6y agoAlso pornhub gave every resident of Fucking a free lifetime premium account. Wonder if they'll revoke it now.
- Razengan 6y agoImagine how the settlers on Uranus are going to feel.
- rebuilder 6y agoFinland has a lot of intentionally rude place names, especially in the north. Places like "cunt pond" ("vittulampi"), "cockpile" ("kullirova"), "cuntwhistle bog" ("vitunviheltämänjänkä") etc. As to why this is, I've heard a number of theories. One is that people used to be less prudish and this kind of talk was much more commonplace back in the day. Also that the culture up north is more conducive to crude language. It's also possible that when these areas were being surveyed, the locals made some of these names up just to mess with the likely southern officials sent to talk to them. Also I've heard that this is why there are so many lakes named "Holy lake" ("pyhäjärvi") - at some point, enough was enough and the officials just stopped accepting the local names. True or not, who knows.
- dkdbejwi383 6y agoSimilar with "Grope Cunt Lane" in England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane There are some good place names too, like "Shitterton", "Cockermouth", and "Bell End". Only Shitterton is intentional, though. It does literally mean "town near the place where you have a poo"
- thechao 6y agoMy advisor (Finnish) told me almost every one’s last name is some form of “Järvi”; when the Finns were asked to pick a last name, the guidance was to use a profession or a major physical landmark near them. There are 10s of thousands of lakes (järvi)...
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoThey probably let the builders name it. If you have ever worked on a building site you will have found that every noun is preceeded by the word fucking. Jewsons, a builders merchant in the UK did a brilliant take on this in one of their adverts.
- ochrist 6y agohttps://imgur.com/RiLpGY7 https://imgur.com/RiLpGY7
- jhoechtl 6y agoBoooyi, that was my imgur submission back in 2014 :)
- F2hn 6y agoHN will shadowbann all swear words. Becarefull
- spurdosparde 6y agoBenis https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/175/637/16d.jpg https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/175/637/16d...
- mrlonglong 6y agoDamn, no more Fucking.