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When a word has multiple recognized meanings, we have to determine which meaning is intended from context.

It's rather strange that in "f___ you" the message is one of extreme dislike, even hate, yet the actual meaning of the verb in this context is totally unclear, which I think allows a suggestion of the sexual meaning to always hover somewhere in the consciousness.

I speculate that this expression started simply as a means to shock, by using language that was at one time more or less forbidden.
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Scoundrel 11mo ago

A suggestion of sexual meaning is always bouncing around my subconscious regardless of the context. I think this case is pretty much closed for me, unless you think there's something we haven't talked about yet?

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Kevin Alfred Strom 11mo ago

Ha. No, I suppose not. It's closed for me too. The negative expression "fuck you" (and all its derivatives) is a horribly regrettable development, though an unintentional one. It is as if a certain class of influential people had decided to make the word "love" also mean "shit," and had succeeded in making it the dominant usage.