Ask HN: Would you submit this paper with its literal title?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109142
by yannis • 16 years ago
32 9 16 years ago

I came across this paper titled Fuck. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=896790 It is a 78 page paper that explores all aspects of the word, which I thought would interest the polymaths here.

It also has some very unusual information like the piece that:

     ..during the last Egyptian dynasties, legal documents were 
       sealed with the phrase, "As for him who shall disregard it, 
       may he be fucked by a donkey." The hieroglyphic for the 
       phrase—two large erect penises—makes the message clear.
which gave me immediately a different outlook of ancient Egypt.

I apologize if the subject of the paper offends some people here and hence my question.

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