The guy that probably has sexual fantasies about masturbation. I mean, Iron, you're a bookworm nerd that even in your wildest escapism fantasies flee to the internet to play the role of another bookworm nerd? Come on!

I haven't looked into the matter at all, and I don't study the history of language. However, at the risk of pointing out the obvious: you won't find written references to "fuck" from before the Late Middle Ages because, you know, people didn't write in the vernacular. The volume of Middle English texts from the 14th and even the 15th century is relatively low (and AFAIK, virtually nonexistant before that) so finding a reference to a specific word would be highly unlikely. Especially since what was written was devotional literature: translations of liturgical texts, biblical commentaries, a few hagiographies, instructive letters from spiritual authorities to laymen or nuns/monks (the likeliest source of such a reference). Margery Kempe or Richard Rolle would not use the word in the genre they write even if they knew it. Chaucer, Hoccleve and co. were exceptional and represented a very narrow strip of society. There are probaby hundreds of words they didn't use in their writing. We don't have manuscripts of a 14th century conversation, and the literary culture of the time was completely different from ours.

I do agree when Yossarin says it's not a medieval setting. But the literary culture and, I think, the common tone of life closely resembles our Middle Ages. And frankly, life in Europe to the 17th century was very "medieval." So we should indeed evaluate whether certain phenomena fit our setting from a historical perspective. Not simplistically by comparing dates, but by checking to see if the prerequisite historical processes are there. When it comes to language, though, we don't really have much to go on. English represents Common, so we're all actually translating the world to a modern language. I can think of many individual words that are more out-of-place than a good old fuck.

The Common word for fuck is actually tluin. It's well-documented in Realms literature and seems to parallel the different uses of the English fuck. Use that if you want, but it doen't quite have the same impact to my ears. Hrast means something like damn.

*the anguished man drops to his knees as the rain pours down, his arms uplifting with fingers curled like claws to the sky, and he bellows in a mix of despair and a thirst for revenge* Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! *thunder crashes*

There's plenty of this stuff in the Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy, too. I compiled a post from Ed's Candlekeep replies and some other sources, a few years back. None of it is original material, I just copy-pasted it together. I think I already posted it here, but here it is again:


Lathanderite curses:
Realms exclamations appear alphabetically, followed in parentheses (with asterisks to lessen the obscenity impact) by the real-world equivalent:
"Beard!" (contraction of "[by the] Beard of Omthas!") [Omthas was an early prophet of Lathander, last heard from over six centuries ago]
"Bitterblood!" (contraction of "By the blood of Alathan!")
"By the Beard of Omthas!" ("Holy crap!" or: "Jesus!" [profane amazement])
"By the blood of Alathan!" ("Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!" or: "Bloody hell!" or "Jesus fucking Christ!" [profane shock or disgust]) [Alathan was a high priest of a Lathanderite temple who was martyred four centuries back for preaching the faith of Lathander by the local Tethyrian duke -- who hated and feared change, and didn't want any commoners getting uppoty ideas about starting ANYTHING new]
"Darkrose!" ("Blast!" or: "Fuck!")
"Dawnfire!" ("Shit!")
"Dusking!" ("Damnation!")
"Redblood!" ("Bloody hell!" or "Damn!" [upset Lathanderites have been heard to say things like "They even stole the redblooding candles!" so "redblooding" is the form that lets this word be used directly in place of the real-world "bloody" or "fucking"]
"Star of the Morning!" ("My word!" [usable even when speaking to superiors in the church 'polite oath' that denotes surprise or dismay])
"Starfall!" ("Damn!" or "Blast!" [ancient oath, now considered almost poetic or flowery])
"Zustrin!" ("Bloody marvellous!" or "Fucking wonderful!" [used only when pleased, but so shocked or surprised as to burst out into profanity; considered poor form by clergy of Lathander]


Banite curses:

Here are some naughty words apt to be uttered by worshippers of Bane today. Where the curse seems an invented word and no 'name origin' is given, it derives from an ancient, ill-remembered 'temple tongue' or cant used by the very early cult of Bane, to keep secret the nature of converse between priests.
"Aumarrath!" (contraction of "In memory of Aumarrath!" [Aumarrath the Tyrant-King was an early prophet of Bane, and this oath is polite enough to be used to superior clergy, denoting holy awe or satisfaction, somewhat akin to the real world: "Blood of the Virgin!" or "Name of the God!"])
"Blackfire!" ("Blood of the God!" [used in awe, admiration, or profane amazement, but never when angry or disgusted; is much less formal than "Aumarrath!"])
"Clathenar!" ("Holy crap!" or: "Jesus!" [Clathenar was an unintentional martyr of Bane whose long-ago holy service was one long sequence of disastrous screwups, so this oath is always used like a groan of dismay or spat out in despairing anger, when something has gone seriously wrong]; pronounced 'CLATH-en-ar')
"Embarranar!" (a gloating thanks to Bane for something that's gone well, or a victory, or unlooked-for aid or good fortune, roughly equivalent to a delighted: "Son of a BITCH!" or "Don't that take all!"; pronounced 'Em-bar-RAN-ar')
"Hand of Hate!" ([contraction of the rarely-heard "Feel the Hand of Hate!"] an expression only snarled at foes or victims being slain; rough equivalent of a real-world: "DIE, motherfucker!")
"Holy Fist!" ("Jesus Christ!")
"Krisk!" ("Shit!")
"Lurruk!" ("Bloody hell!" or "Damn!"; pronounced 'LUR-uh-kh')
"Sark!" ("Blast!" or: "Fuck!")
"Talar!" ("Well, damn!" [a mild expression of surprise or dismay])
"Tondrabbar!" ("To the God!" [a war-cry or exulting expression uttered when an offering is touched aflame or broken, a foe is struck, or an attack is launched (i.e. it would be the first shout of a surprise attack); pronounced 'Tawn-DRAB-bar')
"Whiteblood!" ("Bloody hell!" or "Jesus fucking Christ!" [profane shock or disgust])
This is of course the very sort of detail dropped because of the original TSR Code of Ethics AND the desire to simplify speech (doing away with dialects/accents, and so on) to make the game more accessible when it first appeared. If your players don't feel comfortable using any of these expressions, or they seem silly when uttered, don't use them. Bane will understand.


Red Knight /Tempus curses:

Obscenities uttered by faithful of the Red Knight when personally upset include these:
"Alavaerthus!" (equivalent of "God-damn-it!" or "Jesus fucking Christ!" [this word, pronounced "Alah-VAER-thus," was the name of a member of the Fellowship who had a large hand in founding the church of Red Knight, but went mad in a battle and sent his forces to their dooms through a series of stupid or reckless commands; "playing Alavaerthus" is an informal Fellowship expression meaning to 'totally screw up')
"Blood of the Lady!" (equivalent of "Oh my [insert strongest personal obscenities here] God!" [used as a stronger replacement for "Alavaerthus!")
"Checkmate!" (formal, usable-in-polite-company equivalent of "Damn!" or "Shit!" or "Blast!" [invoking the name of the Lady's blade])
"Keltor!" (equivalent of "Damn!" and pronounced as "KEL-tor" [spat out swiftly])
"Teskyre!" (equivalent of "Shit!" and pronounced as "Tess-kEYE-ur")
"Witless!" (equivalent of "Fuck!" [the strongest personal oath of a faithful of the Red Knight alludes to stupidity in strategy or tactics])


Now, a few 'polite oaths,' that can be used in front of priests, or by one priest to another, without any rebuke or sin at all:
"Blood of the god!" [also uttered as: "Blood of Tempus!"]
"Hooves!" [a reference to the mounts Tempus rides or stands on, Deiros and Veiros, and therefore to the god at work]
"Steel!" [short for "Thirsty steel!" (this longer form is now very rarely heard), and expresses an eager desire to take part in battle]
"Sword and Stars!" [a saying derived from the belief that stars flash to mark the god's approval when a favored attack is made or a champion draws his or her sword for purposes of battle]
"Warhorn!" [short for "Warhorn forlorn!" (a line from a temple hymn about aid arriving too late to save the lives of heroes dying heroically in a 'last stand' because they upheld their duty rather than departing and so saving their lives), and expresses regret at a battle defeat or at poor tactics that resulted in losses because allies or sword-comrades came too late, or went in the wrong direction, or chose opponents or terrain poorly]
"Zelzing!" [a word from an old, now-lost battle song of Tempus, that poetically described the sound of ringing swords in battle; this is now used triumphantly to mark a blow struck, or battle joined, or a foe struck down]
And now, the "hard swearing" indulged in by believers in Tempus who have lost their tempers and let lapse all guard over their tongues. As usual, I've provided modern real-world equivalents in parentheses. Almost all of these words derive from ancient temple cant of the Wargod, now forgotten except for these oaths and a few sacred phrases used in altar prayers.
"Arntarmar!" ("Jesus Christ!"; pronounced "Arn-TAR-mar!" [Arntarmar was a long-ago mortal war-hero who worked wondrous victories in the name of Tempus, and died willingly on a battlefield to allow wounded and children to escape while he singlehandedly held off a vastly more numerous foe in a narrow gorge])
"Caztul!" ("Fuck!" [profane shock or disgust] and pronounced "CAZZ-tuhl")
"Gelkor!" ("Shit!"; pronounced with a hard 'g': "GEL-kore!")
"Harcrimmitor!" (akin to shouting: "DIE, motherfucker!" and pronounced: "Har-CRIM-ih-tor")
"Kelstyn!" ("Blast!"; pronounced: "KEL-stinn!")
"Malagard!" ("Well, damn!" [mild surprise or dismay])
"Ralimralar!" (a delighted: "Son of a BITCH!" and pronounced: "RAL-im-RAL-ar!")
"Sakros!" ("Holy crap!" [astonishment, not necessarily bad] and pronounced "SACK-roe-sss")
"Talandor!" ("Bloody hell!"; pronounced: "Tel-an-DOR!")



General:
To tide you over on the swearing, here are just a few key words, with various regional variants given (I'll leave the more colourful genitalia descriptors for the full piece):
(non-deity-specific) damn! = hrast, hrammar (hur-RAST, hur-RAM-uh) ["hrammar" is southern]
shit! = naeth, naed, orbal (NAY-thh, NAYdd, ORR-ball) ["orbal" is southern]
fuck! = tluin (tuh-LOOO-in)
fuck you/fuck off = sabruin (sah-BROO-in)
Misc: Haularake, stlarn

The guy that probably has sexual fantasies about masturbation. I mean, Iron, you're a bookworm nerd that even in your wildest escapism fantasies flee to the internet to play the role of another bookworm nerd? Come on!

So where's the line in the sand on Amia? Are there some words you (meaning The DM Team) simply don't want to see? I can think of a few racial slures that barely, if at all makes sense in the setting, but how about the ever famous C-words, for example?

Thanks IronAngel. The polite and general curse words should prove rather helpful.

Uh... well, Dakotaen, apparently the word isn't that famous as I have no idea what you're referring to. >.>' And I think I'll keep it that way!

by Carrie Bailey

Warning: while in the pursuit of education, we sometimes fall short of good taste as in the case of this post wherein one expletive has been explored in its various manifestations within the context of English language usage.

Indeed, some people weren’t paying attention during grammar school and missed their opportunity to learn the nine parts of speech. Many of them were busy hurling expletives at their instructors or paying attention to what the members of the opposite sex were occupied doing instead. In order to remedy these gaps, these vast chasms in their educational attainment, one of the Peevish Penman editors has put together a lesson plan catering to their diverse interests.

Also, in anticipation of National Punctuation Day, tomorrow September 24, we will pay homage to the nine parts of speech that punctuation clarifies. On a related note, we will also be proving definitively that one word in the English dictionary can in fact be used to fill each and every one of the nine parts of speech and that word is fuck.

NOUNS:

A noun is a word used to name something: a person/animal, a place, a thing, or an idea. For example: What a fucker. The word fucker is the noun. There are many different types of nouns. Nouns can be singular or plural.

for fuck’s sake vs. stupid fucks

In this example, when we ask the question for whose sake the answer is for fuck, which denotes a single individual rather than many as in many stupid fucks. Nouns can be common or proper.

What a fuck vs. He is the Fuck of all fucks

Proper nouns are capitalized as you can observe. Nouns can also be concrete or abstract. A dumb fuck would an example of a concrete noun, because the noun in question is a tangible person with a physical existence whereas the word fuck in the question who the fuck does not relate to any material object of a known size shape or quantity and is therefore abstract as an idea like justice or perspicacity.

Nouns can also be gerunds, which generally end in “ing.” Please note that this applies only when the word fills the role of a noun and not “ing” verbs, which are often preceded by the word am. In this example the word fucking functions clearly as a noun: Fucking is fucking fine. And here it does NOT: He/she is fucking.

PRONOUNS:

Another important part of speech is the pronoun. They are words that replace nouns and eliminate the need for repetition. The most common way to employ the word fuck as a pronoun is by determining which noun is being replaced and adding the word that in front of fuck.

In the sentence John went to the bakery and bought a loaf of bread, we simply have to replace John with a word. He went to the bakery… is the most common choice of pronoun, but as our language shifts to reflect the changing times it is becoming increasingly more common to see the word he passed over in favor of the following example:

That fuck went to the bakery and bought a loaf of bread.

In this situation the pronoun is a personal pronoun that replaces the subject of the sentence. Personal pronouns may be subjects, objects, or possessives. It is also a demonstrative pronoun because it indicates a noun.

Q: Which fuck?

A: That fuck.


Reflexive pronouns name a receiver of an action who is identical to the doer of the action. One example of a sentence without the use of a pronoun would be Jennifer walked her dog all by Jennifer’s self today. This repetition is cumbersome and problematic, but easily solved with a reflexive pronoun. Indeed it's more effectively expressed by substituting Jennifer’s self with a reflexive pronoun such as herself or by saying:

Jennifer walked her dog all by her own fucking self today.

Indefinite Pronouns refer to non-specific persons and things as in: Bruce and Sonali kissed one a-fucking nother.

Interrogative pronouns introduce questions such as: Who the fuck? Which fuck? What fucker? How the fuck? Whose fucking? To whom the fuck?

It can, of course, be argued that these examples of interrogative pronouns do not employ the word fuck in a distinct and necessary manner; however the fact that each statement can and does regularly stand alone as a question proves its independence from other parts of speech. Each forms a complete question requires no other words to make sense and solicit a sensical response. Even more, in today’s language use, it is common to forgo the formal distinctions between these previous examples for an all encompassing:

Fuuuuuuuck?!

Often used when someone wants the answer to the question, but knows they’re not going to get it. In this case it is most appropriate to draw out the “u” sound for emphasis that it is not an interjection, another important but distinct part of speech.

Relative pronouns introduce dependent clauses and refers to a person or thing already mentioned in the sentence (i.e. the antecedent). e.g whoever the fuck, whomever the fuck, which fucking, that fuck.... The concept can be further applied for this sort of pronoun.

ADJECTIVES:

An adjective modifies (describes) a noun or pronoun.

What a fucking fuck.

They can form comparisons, normally preceded by more or be used to form superlatives, commonly expressed with the word most as in:

That was more fucked up than anything I’ve ever seen.

That was the most fucked up thing I have ever seen.

VERBS:

Verbs generally express action or a state of being. There are several classifications for verbs- action verbs,/linking verbs, main verbs/auxiliary verbs, transitive/intransitive and phrasal verbs. Probably the word fuck began as a verb; although, the etymology of the word has been debated and somewhat unclear as writers, editors, and publishers neglected using the word prior to the advent of the internet.

Main verbs stand alone as in: Fuck him/her.

The verb tense in the previous sentence is called imperative and expresses a command. Auxiliary verbs, also called helping verbs, serve as support to the main verb.

My ex-boyfriend just fucking draws all day.

Verbs can be transitive or intransitive. Transitive Verbs require a direct object in order to make sense to the listener or reader: Hassan fucks up. Means nothing without an object such as everything: Hassan fucks up everything.

Intransitive Verbs do not need direct objects to make them meaningful. For example: Sarah fucks. In this case we do not need any clarification as to what Sarah fucks in order to ascertain that she is not chaste.

ADVERBS:

An adverb is a word that modifies an action verb, an adjective or another adverb.

He/she is fucking fucked.

In this case fucked is the noun, which fucking modifies.

Relative adverbs introduce questions and dependent adverbial clauses. They answer the questions fuck when? and fuck where?

Fuck when I had to go get my car fixed…

Again it is important to distinguish between the usage in the previous sentence and when it is used as an interjection. The way we can tell that fuck is not being used as an interjection depends on a combination of the speed at which the person uses the word and punctuation. The same sentence punctuated differently would transform fuck into an interjection: Fuck! When I had to go get my car fixed… This sentence reads differently and is pronounced differently, because the word fuck functions differently.

CONJUNCTIONS:

There are seven coordinating conjunctions: For fucking, And fucking, nor fucking, but fucking, or fucking, yet fucking, so fucking.

Keisha eats ham sandwiches but fucking Mike prefers tuna.

Without the words but fucking, the sentences would be separated as: Keisha eats ham sandwiches. Mike prefers tuna.

In this case fucking could precede Mike as an adjective that describes him, but it does not have to do so. Always consider the writer or speaker’s intent. If fucking Mike is not something the speaker would normally use in their expressions but but fucking is a common feature, the word fuck has most certainly been employed by the person to join two sentences and therefore formed and integral part of a conjunction.

Correlative conjunctions also join ideas, but they work in pairs. They are: Both fucking…and fucking, neither…fucking nor, fucking whether…or, either fucking…or, not fucking only…but fucking also.

PREPOSITIONS:

Prepositions are words that, like conjunctions, connect a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence. The easiest way to determine whether or not a word is a preposition is with the phrase:

Anywhere a mouse can go…

But more often we compile lists to gain a clearer view of what words function together as prepositions. Some common prepositions: About, Before, Down, Into, Through, Above, Behind, During, Like, To, Across, Below, Except, Of, Toward, After, Beneath, For, Off, Under, Among, Beside, From, On, Up, Around, Between, In, Over, With, At, By, Instead of, Since, Without, and Fuck.

So, where’s the mouse?

Fuck if I know.

ARTICLES:

Articles are the, a, an, and fuck.

As you can see the article the is virtually interchangeable with the word fuck:

The face sees its reflection in the mirror.

Fuck face sees its reflection in the mirror.

INTERJECTIONS:

Interjections are words used to express emotional states. They can usually be found in narrative writing, interviews, and in spoken English. They can stand alone. As we’ve previously alluded that would be:

Fucking awesome!

Here's a poem to help you remember them all:
The Nine Parts Fucks of Speech

Three little words fucks you often see,
Are articles- a, an, and the.

A noun's the name of anything
As school, garden, hoop fuck, or swing.

An Fucking adjectives tell the kind of noun-
Great, small, pretty, white, or brown.

Instead of nouns the pronouns stand-
Her head, his face, your arm fuck, my hand.

Verbs tell of something to be done,
To read To fuck, sing, jump, or run.

How things are done fuck the adverbs tell,
As slowly, quickly, ill, fucked up, or well.

Conjunctions join words together,
As in men and fucking women, wind or fucking weather.

The prepositions stand before
A noun, as at or through the the fucking door.

The interjection shows fucking shows surprise,
As ah FUCK! How fucking pretty- Oh FUCK! how wise.

Just before I fall asleep, I like to pretend it's just a public feat so Pigeon can succeed in politics and save the world from poverty... with his unicorn and shining armour and Excalibur.

Just before I fall asleep, I like to pretend it's just a public feat so Pigeon can succeed in politics and save the world from poverty... with his unicorn and shining armour and Excalibur.