Their are many stories about the origination of the word F U C K. Well, the old 100 year war store (yes i know it lasted 116 years) where the British were being killed off by those bloody French and when they were captured the nice gentle French army cut off the middle finger so they couldn’t use the Long Bow which was made from the Yew Tree. When the English kicked some French ass, they put up the middle finger and stated “I can still pluck my yew.” Which was shortened to Pluck Yew. However my favorite origins of the word is from the band Van Hallen according to the rockers the word comes from an old English law term “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”. But most people will believe that it was the German word Fokken which meant to Thrust.
Now what does this have to do with google? Well today the word google can be used as diverse as the F word. It took hundreds of years for this simple and yet fun word to become a medifore for almost anything. Let’s face it the F word can be used in almost any conversation. Today I have heard googling, googled, googlish, googler with many different meanings. A googler isn’t only someone who uses google but rather someone who just knows a F’n lot. Googling isn’t just that term for searching on google but the process of finding things quickly. Plus everyone is googling each other that it is also the term of background checking dates, employees, employers, friends and everyone in between. I’ve been googled is the term meaning that someone has found me. The word is a very common term today.
The complication of this meaning is that google is not a term, a verb but it is a company. The overall ease of use and culture that the company created shows us that maybe this fun word (say it ten time really fast with out laughing) on the tips of our tongue is the real reason why the search engine is popular. Just like the F word google has that vibe even though the meanings are completely different.
In two hundred or three hundred years from know maybe the word will be a illegal, a slang of sorts. Something that isn’t appropriate to say at the dinner table or to the elders. By then we might not even be communicating by our mouths anyway. However for now we can all keep F’n googling.
You’re right. Google has become a common noun, proper noun, adjective, verb, etc. I even read in an article that google has now affected how we think and how we remember things.
Very true! almost all people rely on google until we use their company name instead of the word “Internet”. Today’s society uses this alias as an alternative name of what it should be. However, I’m guilty of using the word “google”. lol!
Jeremy
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