The Special "K"

SHANE: You aren't one of those oversensitive people that has no logical reason for hating the word cunt, are you?

JESS: No, I have a logical reason. But what's your argument?

SHANE: Ok, so historically guttural sounding words are more offensive than their less guttural sounding synonymous counterparts...

Crap vs Poop vs Shit
Cock vs Dick
Fuck vs Sex

It's the harsh sounding 'K' coming from the back of the throat. And now onto camera film... the name KODAK was named kodak because of the harsh K sound. Because it sounds strong.

CUNT vs Pussy vs Vagina

all synonymous, but cunt is the no-no word. why??? It's the gutteral K sound followed by the T. It just sounds like you're hoking up a loogey when you say it. It's the same reason you can call a buddy a dick and its fine, but if you call them a cock it stings a bit more. And it's usually for people who actually pissed you off.

JESS: hmmmmm..... thats fascinating. I feel like this should be on our blog.

SHANE: It probably should be.


Done and done.

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[Footnote:]

The letter "K" had been a favorite of Eastman's, he is quoted as saying, "it seems a strong, incisive sort of letter". He and his mother devised the name Kodak with an anagram set. Also a helper of the Kodak, (Kathryn E. W.) loved the letter "K" also. He said that there were three principal concepts he used in creating the name: it should be short, one cannot mispronounce it, and it could not resemble anything or be associated with anything but Kodak. It has also been suggested that "Kodak" originated from the suggestion of David Houston, a fellow photographic inventor who held the patents to several roll film camera concepts that he later sold to Eastman. Houston, who started receiving patents in 1881, was said to have chosen "Nodak" as a nickname of his home state, North Dakota (NoDak).[6] This is contested by other historians, however, who cite that Kodak was trademarked prior to Eastman buying Houston's patents.[7]