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maskormenace2017-07-01 03:16 pm
couldbebeautiful) wrote in maskormenace2017-07-01 03:16 pm
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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.
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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[ Look, the war makes it pretty damn hard to get a lot of things. Steve is all about the range of food options. ]
More ... normal? I dunno, I still hear some of it, so I'm not completely lost.
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[Oh, right, 1918. If she remembers her history correctly, that was at the tail end of the First World War, though they didn't really dwell too much on that.]
So—you wouldn't be used to hearing people say, for example, fuck me with a chainsaw?
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Definitely not. Don't see a lot of chainsaws either, unless you're cutting down a really big tree.
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You still don't see a lot of chainsaws around in 1989, it's more for effect than anything. It's like—the more intense version of "gag me with a spoon".
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Why a spoon?
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I don't know, it just caught on after a while as the kind of thing you'd say when you were surprised by something. My friend wasn't one to be outdone, so she made up that more intense version I told you.
[Haha, intense. That's one way to describe Heather Chandler.]