Fuck* entered the English language in print by the mid fifteen hundreds. It was understood as a taboo word that the OED was reticent about. It is a word like unto cunt only younger. Cunt was a middle English (1150-1349) origin word. The right question is when did the taboo actually settle into society, and who were the people that respected -- or understood -- the taboo? In the case of cunt, a word of Germanic origin (fuck is too), it predated fuck almost five hundred years. cunt's origin is not being credited to the Latin word cunnus like cunnilingus is. The word cunning, interestingly similar, that is credited to the Old Norse kunna if taken back to Latin would map with cunnus. Cunnus is Latin for female external genitals. Cunning is a deception thing women are prone to.
We are talking about Latin; not Spanish or Mexican. Latin, the language, is the language of scholarship that took strong hold with the Roman rising over Greek culture. Latin even became reasonably popular so that the common person was literate enough to read a level of Latin that the Catholic Church went to the trouble of printing a Holy Bible for the common person. It is even still called the Vulgate -- where the English word vulgar comes from -- Bible. Latin became foreign to people, and when Rome was splintered from the strong government centre that it was for some centuries; people started speaking a slew of languages that fit their region with some amount of lingering Latin in the din of speech. Did that seem a little bit like; the people started building a tower: God said, 'Look at what these people are doing. I am going to scramble their language'? Right. But, the tower of Babel bit only took a few sentences to write about in Genesis with no generational reference.
When language scrambling happened across the Roman empire [Before Latin Greek took a hit.] it took a couple hundred years for people to become estranged to one another, and be lost even to understanding the sermons of the clergy. Genesis has this curiosity of describing the early events of humanity as instantaneous stuff that does not change over years. Even when mac says, "Presto" -- and the Ggod's are still trying to get Her to use that magic word -- She knows some time will pass before She observes the results. That explanation of the clergies sermons becoming alien to the common person read like mac implied there was a kingdom in Heaven being built that was scrambled too, n'est-ce pas? The King James Bible unified the English speaking world, and in the decade of its mass printing the earliest corporations settled North America for commercial gain with the name Jehovah slipped-in to be made true. 'Let God be found true, tho every man a liar be' (Romans 3:4) means the Divine is proven true because of humanity whilst simultaneously detached from an individual human's will. Once the God Jehovah was concocted, Jehovah gets proven true. Other gods people built are likewise going from god to God. The capital "G" denoting true attainment. This transition and true attainment is what General Dukes makes happen. It is Her purpose. This purpose of General Dukes is why L. Ron Hubbard (not to be confused with nursery rhyme mother Hubbard with her cupboard) had such a powerful start with his cult. This need to be true is why once upon a time one dude would beat up another dude over being called a liar. The WWE uses trash talk as entertainment for this very reason. Trash talk is abominable conduct for warriors. Trash talk is the danger zone. Don't fly into it.
The question to ask about a taboo is; is something taboo because people know this is sacred territory? As in, if I tread on this word associated with (in the case of fuck and cunt) the greatest rude speech attached to copulation or female sexual stimulus am I invoking testing the spirit world to bring evil against me?
Depending on your regional location in America cunt and fuck are either rarely or oft used in conversation. Fuck, is of course, conjugated many ways and used as a noun and verb. mac uses fuck as an adjective. For example, "You have acted in a fuckly manner toward the LORD." On America's eastern seaboard the use of cunt is far more frequent than in California. Cunt is used to describe a female as genitals rather than identify genitals on the female. (In the the days of proper Latin scholarship was cunnus a word with a nasty connotative meaning? Somewhere in time this Latin word was converted to a big negative, a taboo, and surfaced in English. Latin scholarship was in vogue in Jesus' day with Greek a common language.) Whereas, fuck is a word that has many uses even as a speech hesitation like er and um. Cunt does not have verb, or adverb, derivatives. "She is a cunter" is just not even crude English. She might be a fucker.
Generally, fucker is associated with a male. It is associated with masculinity like him. Employee manuals once were written in masculine voice. Masculine pronoun use is identifying all employees with the authority of being men. He, him, his being male or masculine voice pronouns. Then in the eighties this was being bucked and the him/her entered printing and use where promulgated materials needed to pander to the woman, and that supported women. Women included males that hated being born with a penis.
In the Divine, men have authority vested upon them that the woman is spared. So, the Bible -- the Holy unto God book -- writ all its law and inheritance directed to he, him, his. Masculine and feminine2 are not related to he she. A female can have a masculine personality. A male can have a feminine personality. This does make it difficult for these people to fit, naturally-ish, into typical Protestant and Jewish defined roles. Catholics were always more tolerant. You just needed to not make elaborate demands and showy displays of your non-conformity as a demand for rights of law so the group are forced to understand you are just as good as they are flaunting being different -- perhaps even debauched. Having confidence in yourself, not looking to others, to define you as a leader goes with not demanding exceptions be made for you.
A taboo was understood by English when Captain Cook returned from Pacific island hopping bringing this word into use. Pacific islanders understood there are just things you do not touch. It was their common law bringing them together as a people around a witch doctor or shaman that had access to these taboos to keep them alive among the people while benefiting the people.
- *Obviously, read the OED definitions and variants of cunt and fuck.
- 1 📖 Genesis 11:1-9 on Babel. (Expect a slight delay loading Genesis.)
- 2 📖 Explaining masculine and feminine.
- 3 📖 📖 God-does-not-put-a-stop-on-shit explanations. 📖The Zeroth Law of Humanity. This is why, 'With God all things are possible' was written. 📖 Matthew 19:26.
- 4In the words of Saint Paul and God:
📖 Genesis 20:16. Genesis has a delayed loading time.
📖 Galatians 5:17 to 6:10.
📖 1 Corinthians 6:9 to 7:4 in marriage, people worship one another making sex a non-fornication activity. Fornication is a bigger topic than sexual immorality.
📖 Read chapters 5-8 of Romans for the big discussion on sin and redemption.
Last listed; 📖Mark 3:29 Has Jesus assurance of eternal damnation.