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> Fragging Drek, Do you actually bother with SR slang?
Do you and your players use SR slang instead of the real-world equivalents?
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mmu1
post Oct 10 2004, 10:54 PM
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In my experience so far, none of the people I play with really bother with any of that "chummer" "frag" and "drek" stuff, aside from some occasional pseudo-Shadownet posts... I happen to think that's a good thing, for the most part, but I was wondering how things look like in other games?
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- mmu1   Fragging Drek   Oct 10 2004, 10:54 PM
- - Kagetenshi   Well, we do occasionally sling "chummer...   Oct 10 2004, 10:56 PM
- - Sabosect   In character, the group I'm with uses the slan...   Oct 10 2004, 10:58 PM
- - Tanka   I occasionally use them in real life. People just...   Oct 10 2004, 10:58 PM
- - Wutasumi   Same here Tanka. I told a clerk to slot off once a...   Oct 10 2004, 11:04 PM
- - Tanka   Wutasumi: Never, ever, ever tell me you yelled at ...   Oct 10 2004, 11:06 PM
- - Wutasumi   [offtopic] Tell you what, try to refrain from yell...   Oct 10 2004, 11:11 PM
- - Sepherim   I don't use much of the slang because we play ...   Oct 10 2004, 11:11 PM
- - Sabosect   What's really fun is to have a character that ...   Oct 10 2004, 11:15 PM
- - Joker9125   ALERT!!!!! THREAD HIJACK!...   Oct 11 2004, 12:02 AM
- - Wutasumi   Yea, he pressed the wrong button and then tried to...   Oct 11 2004, 12:04 AM
- - John Campbell   I use some of them, don't use others. "Fr...   Oct 11 2004, 12:42 AM
- - Sabosect   Actually, "hoop" has a possibly worse co...   Oct 11 2004, 01:27 AM
- - Kagetenshi   Though there is the somewhat misleading term mothe...   Oct 11 2004, 01:35 AM
- - Sabosect   Actually, yes, I think. However, these days it can...   Oct 11 2004, 01:45 AM
- - FrostyNSO   Slot-off is the greatest expression in shadowrun.   Oct 11 2004, 01:57 AM
- - the_dunner   One of my all time favorite Shadowrun memories was...   Oct 11 2004, 02:47 AM
- - Adarael   I tend to use the sort of all-in-one cyberpunk sla...   Oct 11 2004, 04:43 AM
- - BookWyrm   I occaisionally use "frag" or "drek...   Oct 11 2004, 04:49 AM
- - toturi   Mother-fragging hoop-kissing drek-eating son-of-a-...   Oct 11 2004, 05:21 AM
- - FrostyNSO   Tell that Mother-fragging hoop-kissing drek-eating...   Oct 11 2004, 05:28 AM
- - toturi   QUOTE (FrostyNSO) Tell that Mother-fragging hoop-k...   Oct 11 2004, 05:30 AM
- - Crimsondude 2.0   Fuck no.   Oct 11 2004, 06:22 PM
- - Ombre   Sorry, omae, but since we play in French, this fra...   Oct 11 2004, 07:01 PM
- - Herald of Verjigorm   QUOTE (Ombre) With half of North America being Nat...   Oct 11 2004, 07:25 PM
- - Ouchies   i called my girlfriend a chummer, and she thought ...   Oct 11 2004, 08:38 PM
- - SilverWolf_assassin   I like to use the terms while playing other games ...   Oct 14 2004, 10:02 PM
- - Diesel   I second Crimson, fuck no.   Oct 14 2004, 10:09 PM
- - littlesean   Yes I use the slang, but not overmuch. In our gr...   Oct 14 2004, 10:20 PM
- - JongWK   I ran my games in Spanish, so the point is moot.   Oct 14 2004, 10:23 PM
- - Crimsondude 2.0   QUOTE (SilverWolf_assassin @ Oct 14 2004, 04:...   Oct 14 2004, 11:32 PM
- - Kanada Ten   Chummer is just a replacement for nigger anyway.   Oct 14 2004, 11:40 PM
- - Kagetenshi   Really? I've seen no implication that it's...   Oct 14 2004, 11:43 PM
- - Kanada Ten   By 2050, it won't be the edgy to say. It will...   Oct 14 2004, 11:52 PM
- - Canid13   My group uses it but not much. I tend to use it qu...   Oct 15 2004, 09:57 AM
- - nezumi   I definitely second Adareal. A few of the terms j...   Oct 15 2004, 02:32 PM
- - Kagetenshi   QUOTE (nezumi) I found a great online cyberpunk di...   Oct 15 2004, 04:54 PM
- - HMHVV Hunter   I don't usually have my characters use it in t...   Oct 15 2004, 05:04 PM
- - nezumi   QUOTE (Kagetenshi) QUOTE (nezumi @ Oct 15 200...   Oct 15 2004, 06:26 PM
- - Kagetenshi   I was going to say thanks, but I guess since I...   Oct 15 2004, 07:41 PM
- - Pthgar   Frell, No!   Oct 15 2004, 09:00 PM
- - Cray74   Fuck no. Too contrived, and I was introduced to ...   Oct 17 2004, 04:59 PM
- - Kremlin KOA   uh cray frag is used in RL today...   Oct 17 2004, 05:08 PM
- - Kagetenshi   With an entirely different meaning. ~J   Oct 17 2004, 05:10 PM
- - Kremlin KOA   not really it was never said that to frag was to c...   Oct 17 2004, 05:16 PM
- - Kagetenshi   I never said it meant to copulate, though IIRC the...   Oct 17 2004, 05:31 PM
- - Kremlin KOA   I agree and when I fuck someone i ki... uh never m...   Oct 17 2004, 05:40 PM
- - spotlite   We throw the slang in from time to time, usually i...   Oct 17 2004, 05:49 PM
- - Doctor Funkenstein   QUOTE (spotlite) We throw the slang in from time t...   Oct 17 2004, 06:03 PM
- - Kremlin KOA   just remember people in the 1600s naughty was a sw...   Oct 17 2004, 06:13 PM
- - Doctor Funkenstein   QUOTE (Kremlin KOA) it's also entirely reasona...   Oct 17 2004, 06:16 PM
- - Kremlin KOA   but the impact would not be there... think about i...   Oct 17 2004, 06:22 PM
- - Cable   Not only do I GM using the slang...But I fall one ...   Oct 25 2004, 10:04 PM
- - John Campbell   QUOTE (Kremlin KOA) but the impact would not be th...   Oct 25 2004, 10:49 PM
- - Kagetenshi   "I just use spit." "Try again,...   Oct 25 2004, 10:53 PM
- - Sabosect   At the same time, that also makes it less likely t...   Oct 25 2004, 10:59 PM


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