Words of the 'Verse

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UPDATED: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 14:57
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FLORALBUNNY

Thursday, May 25, 2006 6:46 AM

For refrigerator I've been using "cooler."

For flashlight, how about hand-light? (It's a sorta-translation from Spanish "luz del mano")
Though the British "torch" works nicely, too.

I'm thinking magazines might go through a transformation between now and then -- possibly first from hard-copy to electronic form and then, in low-tech applications, back to hard-copy. The ultimate terminology might make use of something from the intermediate electronic stage, unless the "magazine" designation never goes away.

If the magazine is like People or one of those, you might call it a "tab." If Hustler-esque, a "peep?"

Calls for thinking in context. How are you using it?

bun
~6/23~Serenity/Firefly Summer~9/30~
----- why's the rum gone? 7706 -----

HAWKMOTH

Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:14 AM

How about "magazine" for magazine? That's what they used in the series, as heard in "The Train Job:"

WASH
(sarcastic and firm)
Let 'em read a magazine. We don't make the sale
until Mal and Zoe are back on the boat.

GRIMLOCK

Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:15 PM

The context in a line by Kalyee commenting about an article she read in an OC's law enforcement/security periodical.

FLORALBUNNY

Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:59 PM

If you're following canon, you should follow Joss-speak, so I'm with HawkMoth. If it's "magazine" in the show, I'd use it in fic.
(Can't believe I watched that ep since the question was asked, and missed the word! Sheesh! -- Though I was looking for something else, I should have picked up on it.)

If you're off-canon, that opens up other possibilities.

bun
~6/23~Serenity/Firefly Summer~9/30~
----- why's the rum gone? 7706 -----

SHINYDS

Friday, May 26, 2006 12:15 AM

Well, I think it depends on who's using it. What I'm about to suggest gets us into dangerous territory, but creative territory, nonetheless. If these people live on different planets and moons, even though they all speak that kind of slang English, dialects might form. In the show (I'll have to watch it again) there does seem to be some (VERY SLIGHT) dialects on differ rim worlds (and of course a huge difference betweeen core and rim worlds). Just a thought.
*also can't belive that I missed the magazine line, but has no excuse for it*

"If I hear the words 'that's final' coming out of your mouth again, they truely will be."

FLORALBUNNY

Friday, May 26, 2006 2:06 AM

Exactly, ShinyDS.

The more isolated a settlement, and the longer the isolation, the more likely you'll find an odd combination of "drift" and "archaisms," no matter what the inhabitants' exposure to the Broadwave.

This has played out right here in Earth-That-Is in more than one country.

bun
~6/23~Serenity/Firefly Summer~9/30~
----- why's the rum gone? 7706 -----

MORWEN112

Friday, May 26, 2006 6:12 PM

Yeah, I agree with ShinyDS's idea about the dialects, it makes sense. I'd use torch for the flashlight too, or maybe just a "hand light."

I, too, love the linguistic creativity of Joss with Firefly. It's part of what makes it so believable. And it makes fanfic writing that much more fun! *runs off to get back to work on her own 'verse story*

Mine is an evil sugar high laugh! Bwahahahaha!

Morwen

MSG

Friday, May 26, 2006 6:23 PM

um torch is the British word for flashlight

GIXXER

Friday, May 26, 2006 7:29 PM

And I carried such a flashlight.

Hmmm... maybe not.

G

You may have invented it sir, but we invented the language, and the lift is still behind you.

MSG

Friday, May 26, 2006 7:32 PM

Gixxer- I must know where that quote is from. It's fabulous!

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