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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3675378" data-attributes="member: 19675">Oh, I know it originated in the military, but I've heard RW uses of Damn as an infix by civilians as well.It may not have quite the broad usage as &quot;F&quot; but even that word didn't start off as an infix.As for the &quot;F&quot; word, there is a hilarious bit of legal argument out there dealing with it. I used to have a copy of it, but lost it back in 1991- searching for it on the Internet has not revealed it, but has shown me some sites that have obviously paraphrased it, including sites that post it as a joke (typically containing the phrase &quot;With all of these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word?&quot;)Essentially, a guy got fired for using the word, allegedly for flinging it at a superior in anger.His attorney at the hearing tried to make it seem as if the guy had used it one way and the boss had taken it another, and in the process, told the history of the word and its flexibility, denoting how many ways it could be used, providing conversational exemplars for each part of speech.Abso-damn-lutely stupendously funny.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 3675378, member: 19675"] Oh, I know it [I]originated[/I] in the military, but I've heard RW uses of Damn as an infix by civilians as well. It may not have quite the broad usage as "F" but even [I]that [/I]word didn't start off as an infix. As for the "F" word, there is a [I]hilarious[/I] bit of legal argument out there dealing with it. I used to have a copy of it, but lost it back in 1991- searching for it on the Internet has not revealed it, but has shown me some sites that have obviously paraphrased it, including sites that post it as a joke (typically containing the phrase "With all of these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word?") Essentially, a guy got fired for using the word, allegedly for flinging it at a superior in anger. His attorney at the hearing tried to make it seem as if the guy had used it one way and the boss had taken it another, and in the process, told the history of the word and its flexibility, denoting how many ways it could be used, providing conversational exemplars for each part of speech. Abso-damn-lutely stupendously funny. [/QUOTE]

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