The F word

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Fetus is the F word in my family. Swear word and you have to put money in a box. It roughly translates from Latin as “stinking animal offspring” from fetare - to bear offspring or to spawn and fetere - to stink. No pro-choice propaganda please.
 
Fetus is a medical term. Your family is free to reclassify this medical term in any way you want for your own emotional or political reasons, but it is in fact a medical term. So all the times I was pregnant, my OB-Gyn did refer to the early stages appropriately – embryo, fetus, etc. He didn’t do so for any nefarious reason, but for reasons of medical accuracy. Most pregnant women I know and have known, are simply hoping that the life growing within them will reach term. They tend to refer to this life as “the baby,” such as “I can feel the baby kicking/turning, etc.” They don’t use medical terms because they aren’t doctors. Doctors use medical terms, not political or religious terms.
 
That actually makes want to say the real F-word more.
Just saying… 😛
 
The “F word,” an acronym for “Fornicating Under Consent of the King,” is not a bad word unless you let it be. 👍
 
budgie2 said:
Fetus is the F word in my family. Swear word and you have to put money in a box. It roughly translates from Latin as “stinking animal offspring” from fetare - to bear offspring or to spawn and fetere - to stink. No pro-choice propaganda please.
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I don’t believe that to be an accurate description of the orign of the word. The etymology dictionary has this:
fetus
late 14c., from L. fetus “the bearing, bringing forth, or hatching of young,” from L. base *fe- “to generate, bear,” also “to suck, suckle” (see fecund). In L., this was sometimes transferred figuratively to the newborn creature itself, or used in a sense of “offspring, brood” (cf. “Germania quos horrida parturit fetus,” Horace), but this was not the basic meaning. Also used of plants, in the sense of “fruit, produce, shoot.” The spelling foetus is sometimes attempted as a learned Latinism, but it is not historic.
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So, yes, related to “fetare” but not to “fetere”.
 
super_squirrel said:
The “F word,” an acronym for “Fornicating Under Consent of the King,” is not a bad word unless you let it be. 👍
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Agreed! I do love the fact it is now used in such a nasty way when in reality it was a rather good thing 🙂

That is, unless you were the one fornicating with the King…however, you’d easily get permission! Charles II was notorious for that!
 
Budgie - I checked various reputable dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary (the “Gold Standard” of definitions),and cannot find any reference to stinking for the word Fetus. It is merely a medical term and means “new life.” Nothing at all distasteful. One could say (as my doctor did), “your baby is still at the fetal stage; as a fetus, he is now developing early limb buds and has a heart beat… want to hear?”

But any game to keep the family popping money in the bank is great fun. We used to play that with the word “yeah” instead of “yes.”
 
Corki said:
I don’t believe that to be an accurate description of the orign of the word. The etymology dictionary has this:

So, yes, related to “fetare” but not to “fetere”.
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I disagree. Fetus is a term used to murder babies in British law. The NHS uses the term fetus because it sounds ugly like fetid, and they don’t use the term baby because they don’t love it. The “F word” is an acceptable term, like the “N” word used to be in public organisations. However, it could become a term of oppression which loses favour. I will try to get it outlawed in my culture.
 
I disagree. Fetus is a term used to murder babies in British law. The NHS uses the term fetus because it sounds ugly like fetid, and they don’t use the term baby because they don’t love it. The “F word” is an acceptable term, like the “N word” used to be in public organisations. However, it could become a term of oppression which loses favour. I will try to get it outlawed in my culture.
 
budgie2 said:
Fetus is the F word in my family. Swear word and you have to put money in a box. It roughly translates from Latin as “stinking animal offspring” from fetare - to bear offspring or to spawn and fetere - to stink. No pro-choice propaganda please.
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No, Budgie, it does not. Others have given you the correct definition.

I’m curious … did you ever graduate from high school? University?

Another curiousity question…do you homeschool? :eek: (please dear God, let the answer be no…).
 
Catholic90 said:
No, Budgie, it does not. Others have given you the correct definition.

I’m curious … did you ever graduate from high school? University?

Another curiousity question…do you homeschool? :eek: (please dear God, let the answer be no…).
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Considering the types of mistakes I have seen even PhD’s make, I think you are going overboard in your educational snobbery here.
 
Alexander_Smith said:
Do you have a problem with homeschoolers?
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No, not at all IF THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING!

If she is teaching her kids that “fetus” means “dirty”, she is doing them a disservice. Likewise, if she teaches them that using herbs to season food is evil, she is doing them a disservice. Have you ever read any of her other posts? She is really quite funny. Except, I don’t think she MEANS to be funny - I think she thinks she is being quite serious.
 
St_Francis said:
Considering the types of mistakes I have seen even PhD’s make, I think you are going overboard in your educational snobbery here.
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My post was in reference to her collective posts…she seems to be quite uneducated. That is why I was curious. Read what she has posted on spices, for example.
 
Prophesy said:
I doubt the entomology of it is really that simple.

-Prophecy
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Prophesy – I’m sorry if I’m misspelling, btw 😊 – your username is the verb, you signed it as the noun :). Probably just a slip, but it’s cute if you can go back and forth. Keeps people on their toes!

I think, though, that you did not mean the study of insects (entomology). Again just a slip. You meant the study of the derivations of words (etymology).

Unless you’re fooling with us again, making sure we’re reading. 😃

Peace, E.
 
Abortion is a mass murderer’s game. Therefore it’s full of code words. Fetus is a code word for murder. If anybody calls my child fetus during my maternity care then I will sue. I’m your linguistic expert and I will try to get you made illegal.
 
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