#256 words

[asheewrites]

SmallVentures4

There were no more attacks.

No more sightings, even.

The fishers could reclaim the area they abandoned, slowly.

No children went missing anymore.

Life went on.

With the ongoing war. And the bandits around the area.

The patrols demanding their due in the tavern.

…

The ealdorman had thanked him.

After a long bath. And a very long sleep, there had been a knock at Henoch’s door. And the leader of the village stood in front of the door.

He stared at him with a frown. Told him they had found the bodies of the drowner’s.

Told him the village owed him.

…

There was a nod from both sides.

The frown never left the ealdorman’s face.

And they parted ways.

It was… alright. He hadn’t done it for the thanks. He just wanted his village to be alright.

But… the village became… cold.

They never truly accepted him, reading books and farming at the same time... Always a bit on the outside.

But now… the tavern rounds were not open to him anymore. They didn’t say anything. They nodded at him. Talks stopped.

He heard them talk about almost human bodies, chopped up and found in the woods. The kids ran from him…

It… he… he did not regret it. He had wanted them to be safe.

But nothing changed. Except them excluding Henoch.

And people getting killed… less.

After winter… Henoch had packed his belongings.

Another trader came to the village… and Henoch chose to follow him. No one tried to convince him otherwise.

[languagejournal-blog-blog]

Etymology of Fuck.

My friends were wondering the other day...was fuck used in old english? Did it have a different meaning than it does today? and is it really a bad word? 

I mean how did one of our most popular and most vulgar swear words come into existence and our language?

There has been many different myths that fuck is acronym for "fornication under consent of the king" or "for unlawful carnage knowledge". However, after doing some research, I don't think this is true. Although many scholars don't exactly know where the word fuck derived from, they can take educated guesses that the word is probably Germanic. The earliest citing of the word was in 1503 in the The Oxford English Dictionary.

Scholars also believe that the word was used as casually back then as it is today. But why is it so bad? Just because in our society it means to have sex? so does love making and that isn't frowned upon. same with fornication. and intercourse. I may be approaching this topic with ignorance and actually can honestly say that I have no idea if the bible discusses curse words or not because I've never read it and didn't grow up in a religious family but even if the bible says these are bad words...I want to know why. If I made up the entire english language alone, I could make "apple" and "pear" be dirty words and whenever we said "apple" everyone would snicker and gasp at the horror. Get real.

/end rant.