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Off Planet Expletives…
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Wikpedia has a list of imaginary…. or perhaps not…. expletives…..
Here are some:
flup – from Larry Niven's Known Space
stories (specifically the “Ringworld” stories); used as “fuck” or
“shit” but is revealed to mean the substance which pools at the bottom
of rivers near the “spill mountains” on the ringworld due to the
ringworld's construction
gall-monging – From the original Battlestar Galactica,
yet another profanity used by Commander Cain in the episode “The Living
Legend.” At several points in the story, Cain refers to the
“Gall-monging Cylons“. “Monging” would appear to be a corrupted version of “Mongering“, and “Gall”
obviously means the same thing in the Colonies that it does in modern
English: Bile. Therefore the overall sense of the insult is something
like “Bile-spewing” or “Shit-pitching” or perhaps simply “Venomous”.
hraka – from Richard Adams's Watership Down; a Lapine noun referring to excretion. Only an expletive if used in such context.
stories (specifically the “Ringworld” stories); used as “fuck” or
“shit” but is revealed to mean the substance which pools at the bottom
of rivers near the “spill mountains” on the ringworld due to the
ringworld's construction
gall-monging – From the original Battlestar Galactica,
yet another profanity used by Commander Cain in the episode “The Living
Legend.” At several points in the story, Cain refers to the
“Gall-monging Cylons“. “Monging” would appear to be a corrupted version of “Mongering“, and “Gall”
obviously means the same thing in the Colonies that it does in modern
English: Bile. Therefore the overall sense of the insult is something
like “Bile-spewing” or “Shit-pitching” or perhaps simply “Venomous”.
hraka – from Richard Adams's Watership Down; a Lapine noun referring to excretion. Only an expletive if used in such context.
There are lots…