Quote Originally Posted by bobbinville View Post
Actually, the F-word comes from the German "ficken", meaning " to strike". I've read about this etymology of the word elsewhere (it might be in "The Book of Misinformation", but I'm not sure.
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Ficken does not mean "to strike" in any German dialect I've ever come across, and certainly not in Hochdeutsch, which is the standardized German language of the corporate industrial school system there.
However, every German school child would know what that word really means.