Teach Me To Swear In Chinese!

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DARKHOOD

Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:06 PM

After watching Firefly I'm determined to use Chinese swear words as second nature. So can anyone here tutor me on good words and how to pronounce them?

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Mal's on the ground, about to get speared by Crow. A shot rings out. Crow is kneecapped.

Mal: Nice shot.

Jayne: I was aiming for his head.

HOWDYROCKERBABY1

Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:10 PM

if you go to all the different communities here, there is one that has a list of tons of chinese words and phrases... they are pretty easy to figure out. hope that helps you!

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MAL: This is my scrap of nowhere. You go on and find your own.
SAFFRON: You can't just leave me here, on this
lifeless piece of crap moon...
MAL: Sure I can.
SAFFRON: I'll die.
MAL: Well, as a courtesy, you might start
getting busy on that, cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.

FLAMETREE

Friday, May 14, 2004 2:51 AM

Ni Hao

the best site I know of is
http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/

Zaijian

ANNIK

Friday, May 14, 2004 3:26 AM

I live on the edge of a large Cantonese community so some terms are similar.

Our family *loved* that Firefly used Chinese throughout the show ... personally, I love the idea that a non-Latin/Greek culture was sufficiently permeated through the 'Verse that much of their language was 'common knowledge', even if it wasn't exactly the main language of commerce.

My students this semester include two Cantonese-speakers and two Mandarin-speakers, so I'm planning to hit them up for correct pronunciation lessons.

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

GUNHAND

Friday, May 14, 2004 3:37 AM

I've gotten quite a bit of use, and laughs out of my Chinese. And it's all Firefly's fault.

Then again I can swear in about 14 languages so it comes easlylike to me. I guess I just swear a lot...hmmm.

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"

My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html

ANNIK

Friday, May 14, 2004 3:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gunhand:
I've gotten quite a bit of use, and laughs out of my Chinese. And it's all Firefly's fault.

Then again I can swear in about 14 languages so it comes easlylike to me. I guess I just swear a lot...hmmm.

I'm a lot more comfortable using swear words that no one would really catch on to ... and around here, *lots* of folks would get the Chinese ones clear as a bell! I've considered committing some of the Shakespearean ones to memory (don't ask ... I can't remember any offhand!)

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

GUNHAND

Friday, May 14, 2004 3:59 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by annik:
Quote:
Originally posted by Gunhand:
I've gotten quite a bit of use, and laughs out of my Chinese. And it's all Firefly's fault.

Then again I can swear in about 14 languages so it comes easlylike to me. I guess I just swear a lot...hmmm.

I'm a lot more comfortable using swear words that no one would really catch on to ... and around here, *lots* of folks would get the Chinese ones clear as a bell! I've considered committing some of the Shakespearean ones to memory (don't ask ... I can't remember any offhand!)

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

Pretty much the same thing here, knowing curses in foreign languages, especially obscure ones, allows me to truely express my feelings in social situations where just coming out and saying,"Okay you're a real

" would get me strange looks at best.

When I'm not sure which ones I can get away with I always fall back on Farsi, the chances of little old ladies at the mall knowing what I'm saying is one in a very large number that way.

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"

My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html

ANNIK

Friday, May 14, 2004 4:04 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gunhand:
Pretty much the same thing here, knowing curses in foreign languages, especially obscure ones, allows me to truely express my feelings in social situations where just coming out and saying,"Okay you're a real " would get me strange looks at best.

When I'm not sure which ones I can get away with I always fall back on Farsi, the chances of little old ladies at the mall knowing what I'm saying is one in a very large number that way.

I'm trying to remember where the Farsi language is spoken ... I have a creeping suspicion there are a number of people around here who speak that one, too.

I do have handy my "Latin for All Occasions", which includes useful gems like:

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

Translates as: I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

GUNHAND

Friday, May 14, 2004 4:10 AM

Farsi is Iran, so possibly, but highly doubtful understood by more than 6 people in all of rural PA (where I grew up). But you really, really have to watch the German, the last thing you want is the crap kicked out of you by an Amish guy.

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"

My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html

ANGELDOVE

Friday, May 14, 2004 5:57 AM

This is the best site I know of for chinese translations. You do however have to go through each script searching for the phrases and words you are interested in.

http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/

Since I already did this, I thought I would post a few here for you.

Jien tah duh guay (Like hell)
Hwoon dahn (Bastard)
Ai ya (Damn)
Chur ni-duh (Screw you)
Guay (Hell)
Duh liou mahng (Sonofabitch)
Tyen-sah (Goddamn)
Lao Tyen yeh (Jesus)
Tzao-goa (Damn it)
Wuo duh Ma (Mother-of-Jesus)
Ta ma duh (F**k me blind)
Bee-jway (Shut up)
Nee mun doh bee-jway (Everybody shut the hell up)
luh-suh (Garbage)
Fei-oo (Junk)
Gao se (Crap)
Niou-se (Cow poop)
Fay hwa (Nonsense)
Ai ya! Hwai leh! (Shit on my head)
Nee ta ma duh. Tyen-shia suo-yo duh run doh gai si. (F**k everyone in the universe to death)
Hwai (Shit)
Fay-fay duh Pee-yen (a babboon's ass-crack)

I know not all of these are swear words, but they can be fun to say none-the-less, in times of surprise.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

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