I'm working on writing an adventure that will involve the star of several Orxploitation films, and I figure I need to try to get the culture of this stuff right. Obviously, it's meant to parallel the Blaxploitation genre of the 1970s. And one common characteristic of those films was the black lead calling white folks "honkies". So I'm trying to figure out the sort of language that would get used in Orxploitation. I need some good racial slurs for him to use. Keeb and dandelion eater just don't flow right the way honkey does, especially given the "tough-guy from the ghetto" themes of these characters. Also, I don't know of any racial slurs that are used for plain old humans. Anyone got any ideas?

"Breeders" is classic for humans (and ironic, considering the reproductive rate of orks).

I think "breeder" is kind of outdated..."smoothie" is the slur of choice for people who aren't orks/trolls.

Smoothie's good, I think that'll get some use. Know of any other elf-specific ones? I picture elves being portrayed in these movies as snobbish mages, who are generally lackeys for the rich white guy (the Man), and they are generally wimps. Taken down by one punch from our hero.

Celénitist téwineg!

Elves are Keebs or keeblers, also 'dandelion-munchers'. I'm sure they get a lot of homophobic slang their way too, just by virtue of having an effeminate body structure.

You could call elves "dandies", short for dandelion eater.

Playing an Ork, I came up with this handy set of phrases that Orks might say:

Good ta see ya, alang. Haven’t in some time.
Oh, yeah? Well, buunda to you, too, pal!
Me and my cerri are going to visit our parents.
Always living in the street? That’s a hard djoto.
With that last run, I’m really living the djoto.
A transgression like killing his sister is punishable only in kind, by drundeah.
Want to come around the corner, to pull out my Luger, and to BAM, drundeah that slot.
That drek Marco is the big egrand around here, he has a piece of all the action.
My older brother was always the best egrand for me, even though he wasn’t an ork, he always saved my ass.
Let’s go see Rhumba, that egrand’rohodo on the east side, he’s got the best joytoys.
Yeah, Helena’s egrand’rohodo totally caught us slotting in their house. She isn’t even allowed to go to school right now.
I love this place- I think I’ll settle down and make an ereth.
We finally got a nice little piece of ereth’cerri to defend from those Ancients slitches.
Drek! Look at that elf, she’s eunabo, I’m gonna go chat her up.
I know, that car’s the eunabo of street racers.
The azzies are up to another public fahd, hear they’re slicing some dwarves this time.
And you betray me like this? After all the fahds I’ve made for you?
Yep, the fixer’s got a gig for six gloks, you in?
Hell yeah, I’m down to grumog and smash some soft heads.
Think you got the hez to shoot me?
Look how long that guy’s hez are! How does he eat?
I drank beer, wine and that Salish Firewater, that’s way too much hurlg, and I’m paying for it now.
I got my norgoz in my hip holster, and my other in the small of my back.
He can’t even spell, his quaalz is staggering.
Me n’ Heather had great rohodo last night- I’m exhausted but happy.
Skraa, guys, what’s up?
We went to find him where he fell in the alley, but he was already tharon.
Renraku AND Neonet? You mean this drek is tharon owned?
He’s a turgma, he let them know all about us!
Sure, we take ujnort, humans, elves, whatever.
Yeah, we dated for about a year for she agreed to be my vruken.
Yeah, we dated for about a year for he agreed to be my vrukart.
That is a huge load of vut.
There’s going to be a huge wejoto tonight, we will kill all the guards and break free!
How much yerz we getting for the job?
Hey, he shot at me, that means zakhan for life… or till death

And of couse the actual translation:

alang chummer
buunda Expletive, often accompanied by an obscene gesture (i.e. the finger).
cerri sibling
djoto Way of life, slang: life of crime or SINless
drundeah Execution, slang: to murder someone
egrand Protector, slang: crime lord
egrand'rohodo slang: a pimp or a girlfriend's parents
ereth home
ereth'cerri slang: ghetto or turf
eth group, slang: gang
eunabo best pick of the lot, slang:sexually desirable
fahd sacrifice, slang: personal sacrifice for a friend
glok runner, slang: shadowrunner
grumog to fight, slang: a brawl (screamed before starting a fight)
hez tusk, slang: an ork's courage, nerve, and sexual prowess
hurlg alcohol
norgoz weapon (typically "gun")
quaalz idiocy, idiomatic: "full of quaalz"
rohodo sex
skraa a greeting ("Hello!")
tharon dead, slang: corporate
turgma traitor
ujnort non-Orks
vrukart boyfriend
vruken girlfriend
vut expletive, ("drek")
wejoto Against the way, rebellion
yerz money
zakhan enemy

Beats ghoul slang I suppose:

Human - Food
Elf - Food
Ork - Food
Dwarf - Snack
Troll - Banquet

It just lacks subtlety.

-Frank

With racial slurs you usually are trying to be slick.

I knew a guy who called mexicans loosenecks because that company that made mexican jumping beans in CHEAP packages. It was of course based out of Mexico so that made it worse.

See you dont want it to be N word direct unless your trying to start a fight or make someone cry.

But it has consistency.

you're in the minority (heh), JonathanC, at least in the parts of the world i've seen. rappers and people who want to emulate them are pretty common.

Personally, I blame Dave Chappelle.

Again, I think it depends on where you're looking. On television and music videos? Sure. On a street corner in a bad neighborhood? Absolutely. The guys that you work with at the office? Less likely, or at least less often.

Sounds like something an "Uncouth" char would be spouting out anywhere... stress ANYWHERE.

I wouldn't say I'm "white collar". About middle class, college graduate. I'm just saying that I don't hear it that often from people I know or went to school with. I think the popularity of the word is generally overstated by people.

it's been pretty common among blacks everywhere i've lived. school, college, military, work, etcetera. i'm not going to say my experience is more representative of the norm than yours, but that is my experience.

but... well, look at the popularity of rap music, if we're talking about rap as a perpetuator. there's a lot of money going into rap music, that a lot of people are paying. a lot of people buy into rap culture--literally.

Except, you know, some of us access dumpshock from work and have to be wary of key-word searches for bad stuff. I'm pretty sure racial epithets happen to rank pretty high up there in things government employees shouldn't be reading, even on their off time.

Oh noes!

Welcome to racism! The witch hunt word of the 21st century!

Not true. Racism was the witch hunt word of the 20th century.

This century has child porn and terrorism instead.

And speaking of the topic, is there a racial slur of choice for orks? Or is it just "Ork"? Kind of like "Jew" as a verb in today's racial slang. You orked it up, etc.

Hadn't heard of Smoothies ... I like it, It's added to my list of people I hate

"Redneck" is more class/region-based, though, not race-based. If we're going to spread beyond racial slurs, you can add "queer" to the list of partly-subverted slurs.

~J

I didnt say he invented the word. I said he popularized it. And it wasnt I, it was popculture historians.

And I like to see a history book that describes the use of that word and who used it when.

The history of the word as I know it, is that word didnt become a derogatory term till around the time of the civil rights movement started. Many books and products on the market commonly used that word. So yes, I suppose slaves did use the word. But in the context of the discussion we are talking about now Richard Prior popularized that racial slur as a common greeting and euphemism.

And since we are spitting hairs, crissake isnt a word and the proper use of an ellipsis is three periods, not 4.

EDIT: Oh, Prior generally used an 'a' at the end instead of the 'er' to distinguish between what he considered blacks/african-americans and what whites meant when they said that word.

I've noticed a niggardly use of common sense in this discussion.