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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.

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

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

[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.

The fashion wasn't that bad, come on. You whippersnappers just have no taste. [Said the seventeen-year-old to the actual doctor.

A pause, then:] But yeah, I can't argue with you over the Valley Girl speak. I mean, Jesus.

[Veronica, your mean girl is showing.]

[Sarcasm:] You're right. Fanny packs and shoulder-pads were so totally where fashion was at. We've got to bring those back. Unironically.

But look, if you thought Valley Girl was bad, and it's bad--just wait until the early 2000s when the internet REALLY gets going. God. Chatspeak. [With a fakey enthusiastic falsetto] Oh-Em-Gee! El-Oh-El!

...that's a good idea. I'll go tell my boss to incorporate fanny packs and shoulder pads into our next displays, it'll be so very.

[She's kidding, actually.]

Oh-Em—that's oh my god, right? It can't be that hard to type a few extra letters. And what does El-Oh-El even mean?

El-Oh-El is "laugh out loud." You'd add it to a text message to suggest you found something funny... or whenever you might want to express amusement--sincere, sarcastic, or otherwise.

So, OMG, LOL—any other examples? [She pauses.] Just out of curiosity.

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

Overdressed teens hanging out at the mall and all that.

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.

Let me think, because there's probably a million of them I use without even thinking about it and they're so ingrained in our cultural and vernacular lexicon, it takes a minute to remember what the fuck they all are.

Yeah, ok, there's one. WTF. What the fuck.

You'd also probably get mileage out of IDK [...my bff Jill] which is: I don't know.

That's barely scratching the surface, but. Important question: has anyone yet introduced you to emojis?

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.]

OMG, WTF, IDK, LOL. [Newt you may have just created a monster.] That's like a whole sentence in itself. You could smash acronyms together and they'd still make sense.

[This is changing her life right now holy shit.]

Emo-what now? This is the first I've ever heard of them.

My era is not that tacky. Or at least it's a lot less tacky than the others—who'd willingly wear baggy tie-dye shirts and necklaces with peace signs in them now?

Oh, you mean Happy Days? With the diamond-print vests and that one greaser?

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[Well, good, because he loves monsters]

Seriously, when message posting systems limited you to 150 letters or something, you learned to string as many abbreviations and acronyms together as you could. Kids used to substitute numbers in, too, so you'd get things like G R and then the number eight, and that gave you the word "great" while saving you two characters. The word "you" became the letter "u." Punctuation was often lost. Things were shorthanded.

Anyway! As for emojis. They're usually faces or some other kind of icons to express a thought or emotion. Just a second.

[Switches to text]

I mean, there's oldskool:
:-) :) :( <3

the simple classics: 😊 ❤ 😍

but the phones got all kinds of weird, with hands clapping, thumbs up...basically any tiny image you could ever think to need.

good shit

Search "emojis" sometime on your communicator thing...you'll find a million of them.

Meanwhile I'm over here like

any my husband is like

he doesn't appreciate the value of emoji lessons

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

leshrug

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. ]

[ 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."

OMG, I had no idea that was even possible.

Nice. Am I using that right?

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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?

[ 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.

[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?

[She laughs, more out of incredulous disbelief than any actual mirth.]

Holy shit, and here I thought 1989 was far. That's a hell of a leap. [A little softer, with some sympathy:] You all right? I had a few issues settling into the time, and I had some working knowledge, even if it was pretty outdated. Can't really imagine how all this must look to you.

Like I'm on another planet or something. So that's pretty much how I'm treating it. Helps with the weirdness and all.

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.

Another planet that shares a lot of unsettling similarities to your own, right? Right down to the shitty gruel they serve in canteens. [Of all the things to have stayed constant in the almost thirty years since Veronica's own time, seriously.] So what was the slang like back then?

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