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[couldbebeautiful]

Where I'm from, "righteous" means both "morally upright" and "amazing; excellent", but you're not gonna find that last one in a dictionary. A while ago, I talked to someone who understood the word as the first meaning, but not the second.

I've also had to tell people what some of the swear words I'm used to hearing mean. [Nothing like telling your seven-foot-tall robot friend about swearing, right?] And they've got swear words that I don't get either.

I guess the point of this is: what's slang like in your world? What's swearing like in your world? Would you know what I was talking about if I said fuck or asshole, or would we have to have a very awkward talk about that?

[A pause, then:] I'd also love to hear a sample, if you've got some.

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[driftsintobuffetline]

...Righteous? Like, what did you do, blow in from a 80s teen movie or some weird surfer thing? Righteous and totally tubular waves, dude.

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[couldbebeautiful]

Nah, I blew in from 1989. So, more like the ass end of the eighties.

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[driftsintobuffetline]

[There's a laugh. It's definitely not the first time he's met someone out of time here, but it amuses him to meet someone from basically right around the time he was born.]

Still pretty 80s. I mean, the early 90s was basically a continuation of the 80s anyway, with all the bad fashion choices and the Valley Girl speak.

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[nuns4money]

If you actually talk that way, I might be in for flashbacks.

Overdressed teens hanging out at the mall and all that.

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[couldbebeautiful]

Not that often, I just needed an example to illustrate what I was talking about. No flashbacks here, promise.

But on that note, fashion these days is underdoing it.

[nuns4money]

It depends on what you're talking about. Like where I'm from we still have some of your era's tacky leftovers.

While here... I kinda feel like I walked in on a H*ppy D*ays spin-off.
But I've managed.

[She should talk about tacky when her style here is greaser meets b-movie badgirl kitsch.]

[mansplane]

Same as yours, just outdated. Didn't know righteous meant the second thing til you said it just now.

[ Steve has a good sense of humor about this at least. ]

[couldbebeautiful]

If it helps, apparently that's fallen out of fashion by now. So, hey, we're both outdated, though I'm only outdated by about thirty years.

When are you from, anyway?

[mansplane]

[ So there's levels of slang? Well, hell. Steve rubs at the back of his head, making a bit of a face. ]

1918. Pretty far back.

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[bespin]

[ This is too precious not to respond. ]

My galaxy has all sorts of colorful language, more so when you speak more than Basic. Throwing in some Huttese is always a good one.

But for your basic swears, you've got things like "hell," "kriffing," "pfassk," "damn"... Friend of mine is pretty fond of calling people "barve."

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[couldbebeautiful]

[Holy shit, it's a Star Wars guy. Or at least, that's what Veronica would think a month or so ago, but with long exposure to Jyn and Cassian and Kay, she's at least learned to keep a lid on her excitement.]

What's this about Huttese? Could you tell me a few insults? 'Cause I've got someone I want to use them on someday.

[Oh, that's interesting.] We've got "hell" and "damn" too, but the rest I haven't heard of before. What's "barve" mean?

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[bespin]

You want to call someone a real slimeball in Huttese, you call 'em "sleemo." You want to say they're worth nothing to you, call 'em "poodoo." You want to get somebody's attention, you call out "chuba!" That's like "hey, you!"

A barve is, technically speaking, an animal raised for meat. You call somebody a barve, you're saying they have an... unclean reputation.

[devoutish]

I made mention of this a couple of months ago, doing up an example of some of the abbreviations used in my time. This lot here thinks they invented shortened writing.

[He's looking pointedly at Newt's thread. Whippersnappers; ~god~.]

That's not used by most, though - just the telegraph writers, generally. We've also got-- well, I don't know that you'd call it a code, but it certainly sounds like one to the ones who aren't in the know. Kids came up with it when I was younger, and it's spread. You take a word and pair it with two others, and the last one's got to rhyme - so we've got "trouble and strife" for wife, "apples and pears" for stairs, that sort of thing. Then if you like, you can use just the first word, the one that doesn't rhyme - "My trouble's been after me about staying too late at the pub", "Careful on the apples; there's ice". Makes it harder to puzzle out, if you don't already know the rhyme as a hint.

[couldbebeautiful]

They also think they invented good fashion, apparently. It's kinda cute, and also really insulting.

[Shoulder pads and fanny packs are not outdated, dammit!]

Oh, we don't have that anymore. Or at least it isn't used as much anymore where and when I'm from. But—I used to run with this group at school, they'd say "how very" when they saw something they liked, or didn't like, or—it's a versatile phrase. It's hard to figure out if it's a compliment or an insult without knowing the context, so if you didn't know us well it'd be a little confusing, trying to parse its meaning.

[devoutish]

"How very" and nothing else? Not "how very nice" or "how very awful"?

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[reexamined]

I liked your "swear words" more than the ones from my galaxy. Maybe it's because I'm accustomed to them, and because your words are foreign, they're therefore more interesting.

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[couldbebeautiful]

Your galaxy's got a few interesting curses too. And at least two of them are on my world too, so they aren't that different.

[She's just not going to dwell on the fact that Star Wars apparently has a concept of hell and damnation somewhere.]

Huttese sounds great, though. Hey, by the way, what's a poodoo? Is it anything like shit?

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Which ones?

[Huh.]

Huttese is one of those languages that no matter what you say in it, it sounds disgusting. I suppose that's why it's curse words are used with more frequency. Poodoo is fodder for livestock.

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[maevelous]

What? You mean fuck is not something universal? What in gods name do they say, then? I can't imagine anything else expressing your emotions like a good fuck.

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[couldbebeautiful]

It's pretty close to universal, but it's not actually the constant I thought it was. Or at least the word fuck isn't, I don't know what they use in its place.

[Sci-fi swears are weird, man.]

Bitch isn't as popular either, but apparently hell and damn are.

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[maevelous]

Hm. Doesn't seem nearly as satisfying to yell 'damn' when things go to shit, but I suppose the benefit of being in this strange multiverse is that we get to teach them these fun new words.

[trouvaille]

How do we all feel about cunt?

[couldbebeautiful]

That works for if you want to start a catfight.

Also, if bitch and fuck aren't universal, cunt probably isn't either.

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[aboveand]

I feel you. I'm getting real tired of using "schway" and not knowing what I'm talking about. Or worse, laughing at it.

[A pause.]

It basically means "cool," only not as lame.

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[couldbebeautiful]

"Cool" isn't lame, what kind of bizarro world are you from that somehow it's not cool anymore to say it?