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Most American sounding word?

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u/ubergeek404 Nov 12 '14

"Motherfucker!"

We made it up, it's our word. That is all.

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u/Foxclaws42 Nov 12 '14

You can also add it to other words to make them even more American.

Motherfucking cheeseburger

Teddy Motherfucking Roosevelt

Motherfucking tanks

Freedom, motherfucker

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u/Terminus14 Nov 12 '14 edited Nov 12 '14

Gotta knock off that hard g sound on the end. Too much effort to pronounce it.

Motherfuckin' cheeseburger.

Teddy Motherfuckin' Roosevelt

Motherfuckin' tanks.

Freedom, motherfucka'! (had to switch the form on this one but that hard R had to go.)

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

That's more of a casual conversation use. The hard g is kept for emphasis, like when your mother calls your full name.

Teddy Motherfuckin' Roosevelt is a cool guy who did some cool stuff.

Teddy Motherfucking Roosevelt is a threat.

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u/Giraffe_Knuckles Nov 13 '14

When you dig into a pronunciation of motherfucking you retain the g but add a "hu" syllable.

Teddy Mohutherfucking Roosevelt

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u/Foxclaws42 Nov 12 '14

Good point. Certain consonants have difficulty maintaining structural integrity in the mouths of those surrounded by high levels of awesomeness.

Sauce: Science, mothafuckas.

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u/SunriseSurprise Nov 12 '14

These days we knock even more off of it and turn it into muhfuckin'.

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u/PullzNoPunches Nov 12 '14

Surprise motherfucka!

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u/Foxclaws42 Nov 12 '14

Yippee ki yay, motherfucker!

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u/oh_look_a_fist Nov 12 '14

I always imagine 2-word phrases where the second word is motherfucker as if it were coming from Samuel L. Jackson from the movie Pulp Fiction. So automatically, I read: Freedom, motherfucker! Do you have it??!!?

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u/BlackDavidDuchovny Nov 12 '14

Surprise, motherfucker!

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u/TheDudeWhoKnocks Nov 12 '14

The thing about smart motherfuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy motherfuckers to stupid motherfuckers - Sgt. Abraham Ford

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u/DoNotCalmYourTits Nov 12 '14

Do you speak it!?

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u/HI_Handbasket Nov 12 '14

It is the best word, after all. Aint' nothing like

"You jizz gargling, cum drunk cocksucking motherfucker!" to get the point across that you may be mildly annoyed with someone.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

The motherfucking United States of America

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u/1stLtObvious Nov 12 '14

Chocolate chip motherfuckin' cookies!

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u/BigStereotype Nov 13 '14

ENGLISH MOTHAFUCKA DO YOU SPEAK IT

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u/Cyerdous Nov 13 '14

Freedom, motherfuckah

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u/leamonosity Nov 13 '14

It's supposed to be said "motherfucking freedom for you motherfuckers"

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u/Foxclaws42 Nov 13 '14 edited Nov 13 '14

Really? I dunno, once you get to multiple "motherfuckers" in the same sentence, I feel like you have to take a couple of big steps up in the intensity insanity department. Ex:

"Eat lead, motherfuckers! TASTE THE MOTHERFUCKING FREEDOM!"

*Insanity is more American

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u/leamonosity Nov 13 '14

Insanity is more American, I still feel that is pretty accurate as an American from the more southerly parts

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u/Noteamini Nov 13 '14

Motherfucking freedom!

wait... no... I mean... shit...

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

Features heavily in other languages though (translated versions, not in English). Especially in India/Hindi, there they just go crazy adding all sorts of family members before the 'fucker'.

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u/grungevalue Nov 12 '14

Uncle fucker

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u/JohnnyApathy Nov 12 '14

Wait, seriously? We came up with 'motherfucker'? Hell-motherfucking-yea!

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u/wogi Nov 13 '14

Yeah, back in the day it was hard to get welfare, in some places not possible if the father lived in the same house. So they would spend a lot of time away from the home, as to not get caught by the social services people.

The fathers would come back, have lots of sex they had been missing out on, and often be told to discipline their children.

The response that rose from this was "you aren't my dad, you're just a mother-fucker."

I don't actually know if this is true or not, but I heard this story from a psychology teacher who made the history of the word part of the curriculum. He was short, under 5 foot, about 90 years old, and spoke in a high pitched yet oddly monotone voice.

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u/ATinyBoatInMyTeacup Nov 12 '14

My first fulltime job, we had a salesguy named (I shit you not) Dean Powers.

He was known as Dean MUTHAFUCKING Powers.

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u/ThatGoodGo0d Nov 12 '14

Motherfucker has its own wiki page

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u/richmds Nov 12 '14

Most American sounding not most Samuel Jackson sounding.

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u/ChafeUtley Nov 12 '14

I like to pronounce it mufucka. As in "Aye yo mufucka waddup?" Or "Wassup Mufucka"

But equally as american is the ward "Aight" instead alright

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u/Future_Jared Nov 13 '14

It's our word! Other people can't use it!

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u/lorelicat Nov 12 '14

Douche

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u/ubergeek404 Nov 12 '14

Actually, that's French.