Sci-Fi jargon for everyday

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TRAVELER

Saturday, August 23, 2008 4:32 PM

I am surprised a United States company did not come up with Smeg first. We do the damnest things at times.

Well the United Kingdom beat us to the punch this time.

Happy Smegalicious to you all;
traveler

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

CRUITHNE3753

Saturday, August 23, 2008 4:47 PM

I quite like the idea of giving everyday things a techy-jargon sound so:-

I was experiencing a gastric deficit, so I extracted a portion of nutritional biomass from cryostasis and placed it in the electromagnetic thermal induction chamber.

or

I was feeling hungry so I took some food out of the freezer and put it in the microwave.

ZOEWASHBURN

Monday, September 1, 2008 3:35 PM

Thanks to everyone for all your fantastic contributions! It's good to geek out! Who knows, maybe we spark interest in others and expand the fandom.

I figured it was about time to answer my own question. So here goes.

- "frack" (Battlestar Galactica)
- "frell," "yotz" (Farscape)
- "smeg" (Red Dwarf - sorry, I also have never heard smeg outside of the Dwarf)
- "Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back before Christmas or whatever." (Red Dwarf)

And finally my favorite additions from Firefly/Serenity:
- "shiny," "dong ma," "wuh de ma," "ta ma de," "kwong-juh de," "go se," "sheh-sheh," "dear and fluffy Lord"
- "Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back."
- "No power in the verse can stop me"
- "I aim to misbehave"
- "You're going to burn in a very special level of hell-a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theatre."
- "I think you have a problem with your brain being missing."
- "You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with till you understand who's in rutting command here."
- "Well, my days of taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
- "...starting to damage my calm"
- "I'm a leaf on the wind...watch how I soar."

I absolutely LOVE the idea of making everday statements sound like sci-fi jargon!!!!!!!!!

Quote:
Originally posted by Cruithne3753:
I quite like the idea of giving everyday things a techy-jargon sound so:-

I was experiencing a gastric deficit, so I extracted a portion of nutritional biomass from cryostasis and placed it in the electromagnetic thermal induction chamber.

or

I was feeling hungry so I took some food out of the freezer and put it in the microwave.

"The Status Is Not Quo!" - Dr. Horrible

AIRPOTBORKER

Monday, September 15, 2008 11:04 PM

you'll hear frack, ruttin', smeg, gorram and the occasional shiny from me.

DIGIFICWRITER

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:52 PM

I use 'Frak' a whole lot, and 'Shiny' occasionally. I also use 'bloody hell' and 'bugger' a whole lot, but I don't know if you can necessarily count them as 'sci-fi jargon' since they're real words (which just so happen to have been popularized by BtVS/ANGEL, which do somewhat fall into the 'sci-fi' category).

Check out the continuing adventures of the Big Damn Heroes of Joss Whedon's Firefly in [url= http://www.stillflying.net]Virtual Firefly: Here's How It Might Have Been[/url]

WULFENSTAR

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:47 PM

Its usually "frak" for me....a great alternative when in polite company...

IMNOTHERE

Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DigificWriter:
I also use 'bloody hell' and 'bugger' a whole lot

You think those are Sci-Fi jargon !?

Will someone please tell Mr Wheedon (and his sidekicks messers Marsters and Head) to stop looting the British English language and illegally exporting our pottymouth to the states. His efforts to smuggle "wanker" across the Atlantic have not gone unnoticed, either.

If left unchecked this will make it increasingly hard for us Brits to foul-mouth our American cousins without them cottoning on. Before we know it, they'll be pronouncing "arse" correctly and work out why we keep sniggering when they say "fanny".

Fortunately, I don't think they've found out about

yet. Dickheads

CRUITHNE3753

Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:37 PM

Heh, exactly. Just how do you expect a mortgage associate to fare when it sounds like it has been named after a girl's undersmile?

Anyway, seems like people have got the wrong idea here... jargon should mean technical sounding stuff. Like variable diameter tension loops.

Select to view spoiler:

rubber bands

IMNOTHERE

Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Cruithne3753:
Like variable diameter tension loops.
Select to view spoiler:
rubber bands

Oh, sorry, you mean gratuitously obfuscated taxonomy... yes, I suppose you could call it "jargon".

Like graphite writing stick (pencil) - from Blake's Seven if I recall correctly.

Personally, I think people should call a manual excavation implement a manual excavation implement.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:57 AM

The other day I had another word in my head that I couldn't rememberfy if it was a really word or a makey believe word. And I tried to recall where I had heard it, what origin it had for me.

The word was religiosity.
Still haven't looked it up.

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