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Before anyone points out that fuck is the most versatile word, I'd like to point out that 'blog' can serve all the same functions.
by indrax 15y ago
Before anyone points out that fuck is the most versatile word, I'd like to point out that 'blog' can serve all the same functions.
- pavel_lishin 15y ago"Shut the blog up" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
- jolie 15y agoAs someone who spends her entire day writing and reading blog posts and has developed a love/hate relationship with blogging, I think "shut the blog up" is pretty satisfying and appropriate for Internet usage.
- jrockway 15y ago"Go blog yourself" works too. And, blogging one's self might be even more self-indulgent than the alternative.
- kbutler 15y agos/f.ck/smurf/g It illustrates the level of writing skill/vocabulary/maturity quite well.
- andrewflnr 15y ago"Documentation is smurfing important." Interesting. You might want to modify your regex so it won't tell people to smurf their hard drive. They might take that wrongly.
- burgerbrain 15y agoI think Adolf Fick would likely object to this.
- GlennS 15y ago'Fuck the fucking fucker's fucked'? Shove that up your blog.
- mechanical_fish 15y agoAnd this is but one, canonical example of the extraordinary linguistic versatility of fuck. I believe there's a whole literature on it. And while we're on the subject, I believe there's even more literature on the fact that the distinction between swear words and ordinary words is deeply embedded in our language processing, such that swear words activate special emotional pathways. You literally can't get an innocent word like blog to elicit the same audience response as fuck... unless, presumably, you train an audience of babies, from the earliest stages of language acquisition, to think of blog as some kind of terrifying swear. Which will be hard to do. Babies are more difficult to fool than you'd think.