Talkin' like a Browncoat
POSTED BY: alex21
UPDATED: Thursday, December 29, 2005 09:00
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Hey ya'll.
I was just wonderin' how you mix up your everyday speech with some real shiny slang from the 'verse.
PIE!
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Well....I use a lot of different vernacular ...like instead of "oh really? Tell me about that." I'll say "shiny, hows about some narrative on it"....and I seem to have dropped off the g from every word that has an "ing" ending. Plus, I never used chinese before!
"See this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crochety. Breaks the heart." -Mal
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I appear to have lost the 'be' that used to come before 'cause. And almost every 'g' I ever knew...
Tell the truth though, it was on the cards since I dropped english lit. 'Tis shiny.
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"She's a mite whimsical in the brainpan."
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Quote:
Originally posted by gypsylife:
Plus, I never used chinese before!
-Mal
LOL. I like it. I tend to say Shiny alot and people ask 'what do you mean by shiny?'. I love the slang in Firefly thats another thing that makes it very cool. ALso when i've been in chinese restaraunts I've been asking the waiters how I pronounce things in chinese. I try and they laugh .LOL
A show that brings cultures together? cannot be all bad
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i never realized i did until...
i showed my new college friends the first couple episodes from firefly...my one friend turned to look at me and said "you know what? you talk a lot like Mal..." "I'm like reall? I reckon its just all the time i spent watchin em"
Chinese cursing...gorram is every other word.
Thank you Firefly...gave me quite a way with words...even if you are the reason i failed english class :-P
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"There is a sense that this is still not over. It's hard to put a finger on what's so special about this project and about this group of people, but it's just one of those things you have to trust in, and relish. I am very, very proud."
---Jewel Staite on "Firefly" and "Serenity" in "Finding Serenity" (essay collection by Jane Espenson)
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My speech is as it has been and will continue to be, fluid.
I still say thank you in Italian and I’ve not been there since high school, yet something I picked up yesterday could already be gone. When it comes to Firefly:
"FAY-FAY duh PEE-yen" is the only Chinese that really stuck with me, but it’s hard to work it in. "Dong-ma" pops up very occasionally.
Various forms of, "Holy mother of god and all her wacky nephews," work their way into my speech quite often, but always in English.
"Shiny" I think, though am not sure, I used before I ever saw the show. No idea where I picked that up. "Gorram" and "ruttin" both pop up occasionally.
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Firefly speak is destroying my life. I live in NYC and everytime I say things like "shiny!" even little old grandma's size me up for a mugg'in.
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I'm from the South so I never pronounce the "g" on "-ing" words! But I do find myself sayin' gorram, shiny, and ruttin' alot! Before I made my boyfriend watch the series he gave me funny looks but its shiny now!
As for the Chinese, I do actually use it ever once in a while. Just the short phrases like "dong ma?" and I'll sometimes use "gos se", "luh-suh", and "swai".
For Christmas my boyfriend/new fiance bought me the book "Finding Serenity" which has a really shiny unofficial Chinese glossary from each episode of Firefly. If you don't already own it, well, you should be shot.
I am Joss' bitch!
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"Gorramn" has all but replaced "God Damn" in my vocabulary (Yes, Gorramn IS spelled with an "N". I have the Official Visual Companion to Serenity!)
I will on occasion swear in Chinese, (Mostly "Ching Wah Tsao Duh Liao Mahng" and "Ni Ta Ma De Tien Shah Swah Yah Duh Ren Duh Goy Soh") and I will also say "Dong Ma" and "Tien Shao Duh" on occasion. (I plan on learning more).
And Shiny... Well Shiny is used about as often as Gorramn nowadays.
Oh, and "G" is gone too.
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