Creative/Clean insults?
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@coin Huh, fascinating. I wonder if that's due to the s-to-th transition happened later, or because of native linguistic influence... To the lingua-lab!
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I think that save for perhaps some dialects or regions I'm unfamiliar with, none of the Spanish speaking countries in America use /th/ for /s/ like Spaniards do. Unfortunatelty, there aren't any recordings of pre-colonial Spanish or Castillan, so it's a little bit like asking "what kind of accent did George Washington have?" No one really knows.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@coin said in Creative/Clean insults?:
No one really knows.
Well, true. But that sort of study is literally my actual non-teaching career. So we figure it out, with our ways.
ETA: George Washington probably sounded similar to but distinct from modern southish England's English. Older forms of Hampshire or Sussex, mixed with modern Virginian.
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I like to threaten insults more than use them. For example:
"If you want to send a dick pic, that's fine, but my profession is known for its penchant for engaging in unnecessary and intolerable verbal cruelty."
"You're a lawyer?"
"No, a urologist."
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@coin said in Creative/Clean insults?:
No one really knows.
But we can make a pretty good guess from spelling and rhymes, and how we know the language evolved. Just like we have a pretty good idea of how Shakespeare sounded (think American trying to fake a Scottish accent).
And Argentine Spanish confuses me. No matter how much I read about that dialect and its quirks, it just sounds like Italian to me.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@derp said in Creative/Clean insults?:
(think American trying to fake a Scottish accent)
Even though that's remarkably close to true, I pretend otherwise in my head.
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Bless your heart.
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@deathbird Absolutely savage.
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@derp said in Creative/Clean insults?:
@coin said in Creative/Clean insults?:
No one really knows.
But we can make a pretty good guess from spelling and rhymes, and how we know the language evolved. Just like we have a pretty good idea of how Shakespeare sounded (think American trying to fake a Scottish accent).
And Argentine Spanish confuses me. No matter how much I read about that dialect and its quirks, it just sounds like Italian to me.
There's a lot of Italian cadence and rhythm in rioplatense, which is what I normally speak, but Argentine Spanish is almost as varied as American English in its dialects and accents, and listening to a rioplatense is not the same as a cordobés, correntino, mendocino, etc.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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"You must be an acquired taste."
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"I think of you as a brother*. Not my brother*, but a brother."
- replace with whatever relationship you feel is appropriate.
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Joanna Rants about English Accents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n85ya9Q8YyI
And then also Spanish Accents:
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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"You haven't been yourself lately. We've all noticed the improvement."
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"I've been called worse things by better people." -
About as useful as a chocolate teapot
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@derp said in Creative/Clean insults?:
Joanna Rants about English Accents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n85ya9Q8YyI
And then also Spanish Accents:
Her Argentine is horrible, she stresses completely wrong, lol. I assume her other accents are equally flawed in hilarious ways.
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'Er. What were you trying to accomplish?' is always my favorite; especially after an epic display of indescribable .... whatever that was.
Also, 'Kid's got almost as much brains as the south end of a northbound Holstein'
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For those reading my posts or e-mails:
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@ganymede I speak this language well; also have another that I tend to use with a great deal of frequency <in certain variations>
'If I may ...' --> Listen up you primitive screwheads,
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@killer-klown My personal favorite...
'Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns' .... just take your shit and go, asshole
