Creative/Clean insults?

[Tinuviel]

@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!

[Coin]

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.

[Tinuviel]

@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.

[Ganymede]

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."

[Derp]

@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.

[Tinuviel]

@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.

[boop]

Bless your heart.

[Testament]

@deathbird Absolutely savage.

[Coin]

@deathbird said in Creative/Clean insults?:

Bless your heart.

Oh, honey.

[Coin]

@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.

[boop]

"You must be an acquired taste."

[Misadventure]

"I think of you as a brother*. Not my brother*, but a brother."

• replace with whatever relationship you feel is appropriate.

[Derp]

@coin

Joanna Rants about English Accents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n85ya9Q8YyI

And then also Spanish Accents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlK-neOypDM

[Tyche]

"You haven't been yourself lately. We've all noticed the improvement."
and
"I've been called worse things by better people."

[JinShei]

About as useful as a chocolate teapot

[Coin]

@derp said in Creative/Clean insults?:

@coin

Joanna Rants about English Accents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n85ya9Q8YyI

And then also Spanish Accents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlK-neOypDM

Her Argentine is horrible, she stresses completely wrong, lol. I assume her other accents are equally flawed in hilarious ways.

[Killer Klown]

'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'

[Ganymede]

For those reading my posts or e-mails:

[Killer Klown]

@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,

[Too Old For This]

@killer-klown My personal favorite...

'Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns' .... just take your shit and go, asshole