 SR vocab is mainstream?, DREK! |
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 Nov 8 2005, 06:38 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630  |
PlatonicPimp: Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but I've always operated under the presumption that "slitch" was a combination of "sl*t" and "b***h". The first usage of the word that I recall was in Robert A. Heinlein's FRIDAY, which, IIRC, predates even SR1, as the original hardcover edition was published in April, 1982. Just my :nuyen: 0.02. :) --Foreigner |
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Nov 8 2005, 06:47 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
Slut! Bitch!
Just making sure that some silly censor hadn't crept onto the boards... ;P |
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Nov 8 2005, 11:32 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
And here I was thinking that you'd just run into my ex somewhere up there in the Great White North. ;) |
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Nov 8 2005, 11:54 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
I always assumed that the sl is slitch came from slit, vulgarly refering to the vulva. It is certainly far more dehumanizing that slut when used in the proper context. There are more powerful vulva-related epithets, but slitch rolls off the tounge far more easily than citch, cutch, or bint.
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Nov 9 2005, 12:06 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
Bint doesn't refer to vaginas, vulvas, or female genitalia. Just a derogatory term for a woman.
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Nov 9 2005, 02:20 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
In this instance though, hyzmarca was making an example by combining bitch with another word for vagina that starts with 'c'. ;) |
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Nov 9 2005, 02:24 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
No, you silly bunt.
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Nov 9 2005, 02:28 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
No, a 'bunt' is something else entirely. :D
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Nov 9 2005, 02:29 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
It's a reference to a Monty Python sketch (Travel Agent).
I feel dirtier just reading that. |
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Nov 9 2005, 02:35 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
I know, but it has another meaning as well, which makes it less than optimal for the use at hand. |
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Nov 9 2005, 02:38 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
Well, so does bint. Sort of.
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Nov 9 2005, 02:39 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Which is why 'slitch' is much better.
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Nov 9 2005, 02:45 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
The middle portion of a sail, especially a square one, that is shaped like a pouch to increase the effect of the wind. |
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Nov 9 2005, 02:45 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 21-October 05 From: In a Starbucks™ café near you Member No.: 7,870 |
A batting tactic in baseball?
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Nov 9 2005, 02:50 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
You fucking bunts.
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Nov 9 2005, 02:52 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 21-October 05 From: In a Starbucks™ café near you Member No.: 7,870 |
Which bunt are you? Take a quiz, win a prize.
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Nov 9 2005, 02:54 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
A smut disease of wheat and other cereal grasses, caused by fungi of the genus Tilletia and resulting in grains filled with foul-smelling, sooty black spores. Also called stinking smut |
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Nov 9 2005, 03:11 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Not to be confused with 'bundt', a cake-like dessert.
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Nov 9 2005, 10:44 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 4-September 04 Member No.: 6,628 |
Makes you wonder what Marie Antoinette was thinking when she said "Let them eat cake". |
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Nov 22 2005, 07:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 219 Joined: 26-April 02 From: Emerald City, Oz Member No.: 2,648 |
My first encounter with the word "Frag" was in some truly ancient Lobo comics.
I had so much gotten into the habit of using Frag instead of Fuck, that I was shocked one day to hear my mother use the word when she got slotted off at something. She'd heard me say it so often, she had unconsciously picked up the word. It was cool at the time. |
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Nov 22 2005, 10:40 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
This is why I don't mind having my game playing mocked constantly by my family. It kept me from turning into that.
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Nov 24 2005, 01:43 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 865 Joined: 31-December 03 From: Shadows of Britain Member No.: 5,944 |
And for those Brit's on the boards, shame on you all for not mentioning 2000AD; with Judge Dredd and Strontium Dogs in particular.
Ironically (because of the deity discussion) the OK gesture in Greece is worse than flipping someone off. Bint comes from an old sailors term for ladies who worked down at the docks (not hookers, whores, ladies of the night ect) mostly in the dockyard taverns but also the daughters of local fishermen ect, whom they would try and charm into bed for a night before sailing on. This became known as `Binting` much as the older era's had `Wenching` (which again referred to tavern lasses) and soon Bint became a norm for the dockyard regions. (I believe it began in northern England). As for the silliness of SR slang, need i remind everyone what a public outrage it was when in `Gone With The Wind` Bret say's to Scarlet `Quite frankly my dear, I dont give a Damn.` At least it did here in the UK. Slitch is truly vicious, be it Slit + Bitch or Slut + Bitch, either way it convey's malice. Frag and Drek...well I grew up with 2000AD - Judge Dredd and it was also pretty common place there. Frag, true, is alot easier on the sensibilities due mainly to its war based origins and FPS's of the last decade, but given that alot of modern curses have alot based in the inflection that they are said, Drek said properly conveys all the meaning of Shit. Which, at least over here, is used in passive cursing, eg; Hurting yourself by accident usually enlists a brief yell of `Shit`, the same when discovering some bad news rather unexpectedly or forgetting something of import. The expression `Drek hits the Fan` also seems to roll rather naturally. I`ll reserve my judgement on Hoop as really it is no more or less silly than Ass (which is a donkey) as opposed to arse (which is exactly what you'd think). Vitalised in modern (well mid to late 90's) UK slang as `I can't be asked` when in reference to doing..well, just about anything. Extrapolated to. `I can't be arse'd` but toned by younger users for use in limited language situations (in front pf parents ect). Meaning `I dont wont to do X and really could not give a Shit about it at all`. meaning the SR equivalent would be ` I couldnt give a hoop, chummer`. Again in correct context, looks and sounds natural. Not to say that the guys who developed the SR slang were considering it all deeply as they wrote it, but i`m pretty sure with the metaplot consistancy that SR is vaunted for the slang didnt come about by slapdash and petty tone-downs either. Incidently, most of the modern swearing terms we use now are derived from 18th and 19th century farming terminology. For example that C word no one seems to want to say is actually the duvet left to the sides of a furrow made by a plow that is not used for the primary seem planting (referred to and as such during the planting days) and later became the area used by irrigation systems or as a means to walk between the rows of crops (for which the name used during that period i forget but is not dissimilar to aisles.) |
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Nov 24 2005, 02:38 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
:? ~J |
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Nov 24 2005, 03:12 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
I think he meant divot? Though that's still wrong.
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Nov 24 2005, 10:27 AM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
heh. Nah... Nothing happened here.
Just to be clear, you mean 'cunt' right? |
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