Firefly language use? Anyone? Anyone?
POSTED BY: Hera
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 21:24
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I've become keen on using Firefly slang/Chinese curses in my daily comings and goings and would like to hear if others have done the same.
Anyone managed to mutter (or yell or yodel) any of our lovely Fireflyisms?
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I've started to use gorram.
I use frell every so often and only watched the first season or two of Farscape years ago.
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My friends and I use "shiny" alot, as well as "gorram", but not so much the chinese...mainly because I have no skill at pronouncing any of it.
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without planning it, i have yelled 'oh! look at the pretties!' across he place where I work,
and the word shiny seems to be working its way in more and more, but as for swearing in chinese, no.
That would require effort.
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'do not fear me, ours is a peaceful race, and we must live in harmony'
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I've found that I say gorram it! quite frequently and not thinking about it. Shiny has popped out too. Fei hua and fey fey d'pian is the only chinese I have used but that's been on purpose.
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My son was smarting off, and next thing you know...." Your mouth is talking, you might want to look to that!" popped out.
Shiny!
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"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."
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Oh yes. I work at a store that specializes in foreign language materials, and the staff are all Firefly fans (thanks to my viral marketing techniques).
Gorram & shiney are everyday words here, and le suh and go se are the standby swear words.
The "Making Out in Mandarin" phrasebook practically lives on the recieving desk. It's ... kinda scary, actually...
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I use 'not so much' all the gorram time. 
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Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
My son was smarting off, and next thing you know...." Your mouth is talking, you might want to look to that!" popped out.
Shiny!
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"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."
Wow! My original post limits the discussion to slang and/or curses. That was shortsighted.
I too use phraseology from the show constantly. The sentences just roll out of there own accord.
Per-maybe-haps comes out effortlessly, I find.
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Oh yeah totally-I love the speak!
Shiny,gorram,ruttin',and of course Big Damn.
I say Dong Ma a lot as well.
The speak is one of the elements of the show that I love.
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