For myself I recall the phrase as fix the world and as coming from class discussion on topics of the day. Rosa Parks and civil rights, Vietnam and the returning disenfranchised vets, Nixon and Watergate, IBM IT&T and Hal Geneen, Hal Banks and the CSU and all the other stuff that served to sprout the phrase; well maybe I can't change the world but I can change my little part in|of it. This was the antithesis to Timothy Leary and "turn on, tune in and drop out." Also "for the world" is kind of an incomplete thought. It requires context. Fix the world is clear. As is its antisocial counterpart. As a metasploit I could say it like this. As a thought put down in writing, what comes before "for the word" The answer is "nothing" therefore the phrase truly means "nothing for the world." Clearly not the authors intent. Neither fix nor fuck when used this way, may be given an opposite or false meaning without additional word modifiers serving to change the context of the underlying thought. Again the eternal child in me is just crying out for me to say; in this brave new holographic universe perhaps "Fork The Word" is more appropriate. As in, if we could compile the OS and enumerate all the UART's properly at runtime, then find the right tic on the omnibus, all the worlds problems would just disappear. Apologies to Arthur C. Clark who first planted that thought in his Sci Fi story "The Nine Billion Names Of God." Russell On Sunday, March 15, 2015, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
From about.com <http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/f/f/What-Is-FTW-for-the-Win.htm>:
"In 2014, the most common meaning of 'FTW' is 'for the win', an internet cheer used to express general enthusiasm. [...] Years ago, 'FTW' used to have a very negative meaning: 'f**k the world'. This was a term commonly used by social rebels, anarchists and anti-authoritarian types to express frustration with modern society. Gratefully, this antisocial meaning has dramatically faded in use in the 21st century, and people now use 'for the win' as a modern cheer instead. "
No mention at all of "fix".
On 15 March 2015 at 11:53, kcozens <kcozens@ve3syb.ca <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kcozens@ve3syb.ca');>> wrote:
On 2015-03-14 19:05, Russell Reiter wrote:
FTW means fix the world, not fuck the world.
As a side note to the discussion, the meaning of FTW that I see most if For The Win.
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