Frack or Rut
POSTED BY: Sneck
UPDATED: Sunday, July 2, 2006 03:05
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I'm more comfortable with ruttin' because it is an actual word with meaning. My mother used to use the word "ruddy" in place of "f---ing". When the SF shows try to make up swear words, it just jars me out of the story.
I did like the use of Chinese as an alternative in FF because that's believable. My Dad always swore in Italian so I understand using foreign profanity to express emotions.
Frack, Frell and even gorram are so obviously variations on current English swearwords that they just sound stupid to me. I understand that the language will evolve but it won't just be the swear words...
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There is a time honoured tradition of diluting swear words that runs across all cultures. You get the meaning without the jolt of unease that perhaps God will smite you.
Perhaps this is the next evolution of the likes of god damn becoming gosh darn. Golly, too, has some roots in the god word, if I'm not mistaken. I had friends who were linguists. We had so much fun talking about words.
I like frikkin', meself. The "a" in frak just sounds off to me. Maybe because I'm from Texas. We also have a time honoured tradition of chopping our words short and sharp. And we also mumble.
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Originally posted by msckaren:
When the SF shows try to make up swear words, it just jars me out of the story.
I don't know, I always like "smeg" in Red Dwarf. Also "goyt" or however it's spelled. They pulled it off very well. Maybe it was because it was British, and they have their own little swears anyway.
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Originally posted by embers:
Personally I liked 'Farscape's "frelling"
THANK YOU!!! FINALLY found out where "frelling heck" has crept into my vocabulary. Thanks embers
give it time. In another couple of genrations, Frak, Frelling and Shiny mught be used in the common vocalbulary of EVERYONE!!!!
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Originally posted by Sneck:
Hi all
I am a relatively new Firefly fan, pulled in by the "Serenity" film - most excellent.
Does anybody else get this cringing feeling every time somebody on Galactica says "frack" ?
Aaaargh !
Yet, I feel Rut and Goram as used on Firefly is a more "fan friendly" (and network friendly) form of cursing, and you still know exactly how pissed off they are !
Agreed.
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
I don't know, I always like "smeg" in Red Dwarf.
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Originally posted by DarkJester:
But when Callie called someone a "motherfraker", that was just that little step over the enjoyable line and into the cringe zone for me.
If my memory serves me correctly, even when they said this, the other person with them paused for a second and then burst out laughing at them like it wasn't a regular usage of the word, so I kind of thought that was funny, since they were poking fun at their own made-up swear word.
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Don't forget the Star Wars swear words/phrases. (for those of you who are star wars "purists" I am refering to words used in the Expanded Universe novels)
The only ones I can think of at the moment (other than normal words like damn) are Sithspawn, Emperor's Black Bones, Sithspit, Carbon Flush!, Emperor's Black Heart, Hutt Slime, Kiss My Wookie, and of course Kriff.
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Don't forget the Star Wars swear words/phrases.
What about Episode 3 when Obi-wan says (or something like that) 'He killed the younglings'
Younglings?!
I burst out laughing (really, really loud) in the cinema when Ewan McGregor delivered that line and got loads of dirty looks from hardcore Star Wars fans (it was one of the bang on release day midnight showings). I giggled to myself for the remainder of the film...
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Originally posted by monkeytail:
Don't forget the Star Wars swear words/phrases. (for those of you who are star wars "purists" I am refering to words used in the Expanded Universe novels)
The only ones I can think of at the moment (other than normal words like damn) are Sithspawn, Emperor's Black Bones, Sithspit, Carbon Flush!, Emperor's Black Heart, Hutt Slime, Kiss My Wookie, and of course Kriff.
you forgot "stang"
I like the EU novels
and younglings is a nice neutral word because aliens might refer to their young as cubs, crechlings, and others, so "younglings" is a term that all can agree on
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