FUCK!!!

Is "FUCK" an offensive word? Many consider this word as offensive.. But what is really the meaning of fuck?

The word fuck has different meanings.. Fuck is an English word which, as a verb, literally means to engage in sexual intercourse. The word is generally considered offensive.
It is unclear whether the word has always been considered vulgar, and if not, when it first started to be considered vulgar. Some evidence indicates that in some English-speaking locales it was considered acceptable as late as the 17th century meaning "to strike" or "to penetrate."Other evidence indicates that it may have become vulgar as early as the 16th centiry in England, although neither set of evidence is inherently contradictory to the other, since many words have multiple connotations. The word became increasingly offensive over time because of its usage to describe (often in an extremely angry, hostile or belligerent manner) negative or unpleasant circumstances or people in an intentionally offensive way, such as in the term "motherfucker," one of its more common usages.

Fuck is used not only as a verb (transitive and intransitive), but also as a noun and interjection.The etymology of the word is uncertain.

One reason that the word fuck is so hard to trace etymologically is that it was used far more extensively in common speech than in easily traceable written forms.
There are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. None of these acronyms was ever heard before the 1960s, according to the authoritative lexicographical work, The F-Word, and thus are backronyms. In any event, the word fuck has been in use far too long for some of these supposed origins to be possible.
One such legend holds that the word fuck came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery, they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal knowledge In the Nude", with "FUCKIN" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime.
Other explanations for fuck as an acronym for adultery offer alternative wordings, such as "Fornication Under Carnal/Cardinal Knowledge," or "Fornication Under [the] Control/Consent/Command of the King." Variations on this theme include, "Fornication Under the Christian King", "False Use of Carnal Knowledge", "Felinious Use of Carnal Knowledge", "Felonious Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", "Full-On Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", and "Found Under Carnal Knowledge"; and the closely related variant, "Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" — a label supposedly applied to the crime of rape.

In some reports, there are tombstones around English cemeteries that had the word engraved in uppercase lettters. These referred to those who were put to death for crimes against the state and the church. These reports have yet to be corroborated since no such tombstone has been identified. Another story is that it was written in the log book as FUCK when people in the military or navy who had homosexual intercourse were being punished.

In Afrikaans, the slang word fok has been adopted as an Afrikaans equivalent of fuck (and fokkof as "fuck off"), due to the influence of English media and language in South Africa. It is sometimes written vok as in Dutch (where it means breed) but the pronunciation is identical. In the past it was sometimes used to indicate sexual intercourse, but this is not longer the case. In Afrikaans the strong expletive for sexual intercourse has always been and remains naai. Coincidentally, the Afrikaans word neuk, which resembles neuken, a Dutch equivalent of fuck, is used in the context of to strike .

The Shanghainese verb and adjective 发格 fage is derived from the English "fuck" and is used in the exasperated context of things or people "fucking up" or "being difficult." Although fage is often used pejoratively, the term has lost its sexual connotations. In Cantonese, the slang word diu is used in a similar way as the English word "fuck." Similar terms in Mandarin are cào gàn, and gǎo, the latter used more commonly in Taiwan

In French, the word for seal (the animal) is phoque; the word for foresail is foc. Their pronunciation in French resembles that of the word fuck in English. In France French, phoque or foc sounds like the British pronunciation of fuck while in Quebec French, it sounds like the North American pronunciation, due to areal influences (although this actually is coincidental, and has no relation to the English word). As well, the English term has been adopted as the adjective fucké, a slang term commonly used in Quebec French to describe something that is broken or off-kilter, or someone who is not in their right mind. It is not considered particularly offensive.
The Quebec French word tabernacle, meaning the church tabernacle, is often used in the same way as fuck in English, except in sexual-related usage. It is only used as interjection, noun or adverb. Other Quebecois-French swear words (which are pretty much all of clergical origin) such as Christ or Calice are much more versatile.
Note that in Quebec French, English swearwords such as "shit" and "fuck" are considered to be much less vulgar than if used in the same context for an English speaking person.

In Latin, the verb facere translates both as "to make" and "to do". The stem fac– is commonly pronounced as /fak/, and so facit ("he/she/it does") would be pronounced /fakit/. The singular imperative fac (meaning "Make!" or "Do!") is also pronounced /fak/.
The Latin word for "to fuck" is futuere.

In Swedish, the morpheme fack is pronounced almost identically to the English fuck, and means a box or compartment, for example a letterbox for internal mail. As a prefix, the morpheme fack refers to something pertaining to a certain trade or profession, for example in the words facklitteratur (literature pertaining to a certain profession) and fackförening (trade union, colloquially referred to as facket).
Fuck can also be used in colloquial Swedish as an English loan word, with basically the same meanings as in English.

We still have to use this word carefully or else........