Slut! Bitch!

Just making sure that some silly censor hadn't crept onto the boards... ;P

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.

Bint doesn't refer to vaginas, vulvas, or female genitalia. Just a derogatory term for a woman.

No, you silly bunt.

No, a 'bunt' is something else entirely.

It's a reference to a Monty Python sketch (Travel Agent).

Well, so does bint. Sort of.

Which is why 'slitch' is much better.

A batting tactic in baseball?

You fucking bunts.

Which bunt are you? Take a quiz, win a prize.

Not to be confused with 'bundt', a cake-like dessert.

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.

This is why I don't mind having my game playing mocked constantly by my family. It kept me from turning into that.

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.)

I think he meant divot? Though that's still wrong.

as a side note

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=slitch

anyhow....

Frag, see DOOM/QUAKE: GIB

Frag is a far different conotation then it is in relation to a fps, although it probably originated from there = )

Though I do like the idea of a plough leaving behind down bedding…

~J

Thats right Kagetenshi, kick a man while he's down

*Contacts a man who knows a few people, arranges a meet to sort out a little wet work that suddenly needs doing*

Shadowrun (English) slang don't work in sessions in polish .
Only basical terms are used during gameplay - "runner", "chummer".
Curses? Polish ones, sometimes fuck you/ fuck off.
I've heard that one of polish GMs used polish prison slang...

So, Fix-it, no - we don't use SR slang in real life.

Yeah i never really used the slang in my games, and the slang never seemed to evolve either,

A month old topic revived... Sigh...

What is the world coming to?