conversation at work today about "that" word...
in an open plan office, me and a colleague were discussing why the word cunt is considered more offensive than any of the other words which mean the same thing (twat/pussy/vagina/pudenda and so on)

my colleague happens to be an English Lit graduate, who has read the fine works of Chaucer (which contains liberal sprinklings of the word!) and I discovered that there are many instances where the word used to be part of acceptable language and for some reason has become known as the "C-Bomb" but we still don't know why exactly....

but it was quite liberating to have a chat about said word, in an open plan office and we are still employed!! No idea how!!!
(Anne Frank started to build a loft conversion on, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 22:08, 9 replies)

Your story is 'I learnt something that the average GSCE English Language student knows'

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 22:36, closed)

Gosh, your office are a right bunch of wacky "C-bombs"

( Woo Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 22:40, closed)

Swears!
Hee hee!
Swears!

BUM!
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 22:58, closed)

The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer explores this in some depth.

( 4Q just lurking, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 0:45, closed)

fnarr

( 4Q just lurking, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 0:46, closed)

I do hope you told everyone in the open plan office that b3ta's fave
suggestion of a threat (aside from decapitation by samurai sword or Jahled's baseball bat of course) is that one gets "cunted in the fuck!".
See that get past the pc-cops at work.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 11 Jan 2013, 4:11, closed)

Yesterday we had a discussion about out Rude Words file
...which I think was derived from a real-world collection of terms used by schoolkids. Some lovely entries; I particularly like "assmong".
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 10:36, closed)

So your story involves 'lovely entries' of 'schoolkids'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 13:22, closed)

Etmologically it's not that offensive
www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cunt

the most common theories being that it means either "wedge", "hollow place" or just "woman"...while vagina translates as "sheath" or "scabbard", being a violent sexual metaphor invented by male 17th century doctors who were notorious for their devotion to political correctness and were probably smirking when they came up with it:

www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vagina
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 11 Jan 2013, 11:01, closed)