| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | SR swear words (was Re: Thanks for "REFLEX") |
| Date: | Fri, 14 Mar 1997 12:06:12 +0100 |
> I dunno about how 'made-up' the words are ('frag' deals with killing a
> guy (with a grenade?) and goes back to the Vietnam War, I think...and
But not as a substitute for "fuck." I have to admit it's better than
"frack" since it's/appears to be based on a real word.
> I've seen 'drek' used outside of SR (in a 'cyberpunk'-like book called
> "The Stones Garden")
Somebody said (on the list, I think) that it's Russian and means "shit."
Since the only Russian I know consists of a few words relating to
military vehicles, I'm not sure how true this is...
> 'hoop' is pretty lame though:)
Especially because "ass" gets used in the same books as "hoop" :)
> >I've seen a lot worse, and from native speakers at that *hides under
> >stairs from Americans* :)
>
> :P to you, Gurth. Rip-Claw wasn't exactly representative of
> Americans...'sides, can we help if you Europeans have to learn British
> English?
With all the American TV shows, movies, and music we get, he thinks we
learn British English... <rant> The majority here speaks English with an
exaggerated American accent, not to mention they mangle the words so some
are almost unrecognizable (or should that be unrecognisable? I can do
both! :) and throw in Dutch expressions that none of you would ever
understand... </rant>
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