Why ‘F*ck’ Is the Word of the Year
How the word became a virtue signal in 2018
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4 min readDec 11, 2018
Ah, fuck! What an indispensable, multitasker of a word it has become! No longer relegated to that marginalized category once known as profanity, fuck now wears many syntactical hats and is a staple of Trump-era vocabulary. In addition to being a fun way to embed a little malediction into words that otherwise might be chalked up as…
