Article includes Gorram as new slang for 2004
POSTED BY: tlacook
UPDATED: Friday, December 31, 2004 17:44
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Originally posted by AnotherFireflyfan:
Dong ma IS a word. It's chinese, for 'Understand?'
Ummm ... yes, I know that. However, its more common usage among the Lo Fan is a rather new-ish sort of thing, IMNSHO.
Cheers,
Annik
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Originally posted by Forrestwolf:
Actually, I was gamemastering a Firefly game the other day, and someone SAID "Frell" accidentally :)
I feel their pain. When I was heavy into Farscape (watching it religiously every week) the word "frell" would escape my mouth entirely unbidden. I once called something at work a "frelling disaster". I said it in such a way that I earned a real dirty look from my boss. Now I can't stop saying shiny, even if people do look at me weird.
"First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow."
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Weird.
Isn't "Gorram" also Chinese, as with most of the slang on the show? (except Shiny?)
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Nope; "gorram" = "God damn" (technically it'd be "Gorramn"). The D-to-R sound change is a fairly common effect in some languages (specifically Irish, where "dh" is pronounced "r").
Or maybe it could just be an oblique reference to a town in Maine, on Earth-that-was. 
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It'd seem odd to have a reference to the Irish (or Maine) in a culture that is primarily the mixture of Chinese and American (the last two world powers).
Any Chinese-speakers out there care to weigh in?
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Yep sure,
Gorram is definitely God-damn. dongma is definitely chinese for understand?, however badly pronounced it is.
Personally, the chinese is so bad that ive given up trying to decipher what everyone is saying...
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Ha Ha Ha! Our plan is bearing fruit. The infiltration of American culture is beginning. When the BDM hit theatres we will become as popular as Star Trek and Star Wars. Mine is an evil laugh!
This is so ruttin' shiny. Now if we can just get "shiny" and "ruttin" on this list we will be in great shape. 
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But evidence of Scottish influence, at least, is clearly demonstrated by Nathan Fillion wearing a brownKILT in those celebrity photos we recently saw :)
Seriously, though, Firefly has more than just the dominant Sino-American influence. There's Londonium - the British-influenced Core world, and Osiris - another Core world that sounds rather Egyptian in name.
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I'd argue that China having a population over a billion might have a little influence too, but yeah, Firefly is up there.
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Originally posted by Regression:
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Personally, the chinese is so bad that ive given up trying to decipher what everyone is saying...
Yeah. I imagine it's hard to hear the actors mangle the pronounciations. Ying has done a great job deciphering what they were trying to say. Check out the Firefly Chinese Pinyinary: http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/ . And while you're over there, check out the Firefly Funsite, too. Ying's created and maintained a great resource.
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