The decussification of the word suck....

[Soonerus]

When did this occur, 10-15 years ago ???

[yermom]

Huh?

[Soonerus]

"suck" used to be a cuss word...but that has eroded over the years whereby "suck" is frequently used everywhere today...

[olevetonahill]

Just like any word, the more they are used in common conversation the less shock value of the word.
Take **** for example 40 years ago a man would moren likely get an asswhoopin if he used that word in front of wimmen er Kids, Now the wimmens and Kids use it regularly

[En_Fuego]

Fornication Under Consent of the King

[SicEmBaylor]

Fornication Under Consent of the King

Barry Switzer?

[En_Fuego]

Fornication Under Consent of the King

Barry Switzer?

Lol......

For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

[OUstud]

I think everyone realized that saying "stinks" instead of "sucks" sounds really childish. It also doesn't help having ad campaigns like, "Quitting smoking sucks".

[Peach Fuzz]

I remember in grade school getting in 'timeout' for saying sucks~mid 90's. After about 3rd grade it was accepted more or less.

[Peach Fuzz]

One of you older fellas maybe able to help me on this one. How long has the 'F' word been used and when did it become so popular? I heard ww2 is when it started picking up and the counter culture made it popular. Correct?

[pphilfran]

During the first Earth Day my English Lit teacher (a young, wild chick, bout a 7, she gave 'shots' sitting on the edge of her desk) gave us a day off from class to make an Earth Day poster...A contest, it was! The entire school got to vote for their favorite

So we each teamed up with another classmate for the project...I was with this strange hippy chick...we made a psychedelic poster with a huge header...

POLLUTION SUCKS

Then written in small yellow print in the middle of a black splotch in the center of the poster was...

The Breath Out of You

Up on the school hallway walls all of the posters were placed...

We were a shoe in to win in a landslide...

Sadly our poster was banned from the competition and taken down...

To this day I cry myself to sleep thinking about my loss...

[C&CDean]

You're crying thinking about #7's coochie coo. Be honest.

[pphilfran]

You're crying thinking about #7's coochie coo. Be honest.

I cannot tell a lie...

[cleller]

This issue has perplexed me, too.

My memory is that in the early 70s the word was only used to describe a certain kind of girl, and what she did. By the time I hit high school, late 70s, it was beginning to be used to describe other situations, but still retained its sexual connotation. Was definitely not something to be caught saying in class, etc.

The good ole days when it was still possible (for a boy) to end up on the wrong end of a paddle.

[C&CDean]

I was at church a few years back and the preacher used it a couple times in his sermon. Southern Baptist. If they'll say it, it's definitely decussified.

[TUSooner]

I read in a book about the WW One genration that the f-word came intowider use in that especially nasty war, with words like un-f*cking-believable and in-f*cking-credible first appearing. I assume everyone knows that all the acronym etymologies of f*ck are totally bogus. (Consent of the King? Get the f*ck outtahere!)

Back in the late 60s & early 70s, suck usually was accompanied by a direct object, generally something phallic and repulsive like, "that sucks big green donkey schlongs." When the phallic object was dropped - out of mere laziness, one supposes, people gradually forgot, or pretended to forget, its roots in perverse fellatio. Now suck is more widely accepted, but only as long as nobody asks, "sucks what?"

Of course, other words are now widely accepted that used to not be, as$ being one that now appears fairly often, even in the sports pages, in the context of kicking it. D@mn, he11, and sh!t are evbidiently seen as relatively mild these days. Worst of all, imho, are f*cking and mother f*cker/ing. These words are used a conversational filler by the semi-literate classless class and are a sure sign to me that the speaker doesn't really have anything to say that's worth hearing. MF is especially gross and obscene, but it get tossed around like "uh" and "like" or even "guy." If you call some generic guy a MF'er, what's left as an insult?! The whole trend toward accepting profanity as commonplace sucks the sweaty testicles off Noah Webster's horse.

[olevetonahill]

I read in a book about the WW One genration that the f-word came intowider use in that especially nasty war, with words like un-f*cking-believable and in-f*cking-credible first appearing. I assume everyone knows that all the acronym etymologies of f*ck are totally bogus. (Consent of the King? Get the f*ck outtahere!)

Back in the late 60s & early 70s, suck usually was accompanied by a direct object, generally something phallic and repulsive like, "that sucks big green donkey schlongs." When the phallic object was dropped - out of mere laziness, one supposes, people gradually forgot, or pretended to forget, its roots in perverse fellatio. Now suck is more widely accepted, but only as long as nobody asks, "sucks what?"

Of course, other words are now widely accepted that used to not be, as$ being one that now appears fairly often, even in the sports pages, in the context of kicking it. D@mn, he11, and sh!t are evbidiently seen as relatively mild these days. Worst of all, imho, are f*cking and mother f*cker/ing. These words are used a conversational filler by the semi-literate classless class and are a sure sign to me that the speaker doesn't really have anything to say that's worth hearing. MF is especially gross and obscene, but it get tossed around like "uh" and "like" or even "guy." If you call some generic guy a MF'er, what's left as an insult?! The whole trend toward accepting profanity as commonplace sucks the sweaty testicles off Noah Webster's horse.

What the f*ck you talkin about? You mother****ing cracker assed white boy.

[C&CDean]

If you call some generic guy a MF'er, what's left as an insult?!

Aggy?

[SanJoaquinSooner]

When my kids were in elementary school, the really bad S-word that got students in trouble was "stupid."

[olevetonahill]

When my kids were in elementary school, the really bad S-word that got students in trouble was "stupid."

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