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Exclamations I used to say:
“Big black bats!” - something to do with Batman or something?
“Great Qubits!” - I liked quantum physics, because I didn’t understand itInsults I say now:
“Eat a (some kind of weapon)!” - Fancy way to tell someone “kill yourself”. Like “Eat a grenade”, “Eat a gun”
Random syllables that sound like Klingon mixed with Slavic and Hebrew - I speak none of those languages, but still say stuff like “Vzer krakh!” when I get annoyed by popups.Breaking the “non-religous” constraint, because i want to:
“Jesus Christ in a tank!” - In response to something very surprising that I can’t rememberSaving the best for last: Captain Haddock interjections.
“Ten thousand thundering typhoons!”
“Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!”
“Addlepated lumps of anthracite!”
“Antediluvian bulldozer!”
“Pompous popinjay!”
“Pockmark!”Anyone else who remembers this better from “Cow &chicken” correct me, but this is what I recall “dad” exclaiming:
“Well, shave my legs and call me grandpa”Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!
What in tarnation?
There are actually a lot:
- Heaven is actually from the old english word for sky (Sky is from norse instead), so “Good Heavens” can be interpreted as non religious. In fact, Heaven singular is the afterlife place, heavens plural means the vast skies and stars, so i certainly see ‘Good Heavens’ as irreligious.
- Good Golly
- Fiddlesticks!
Might I introduce you to the good old Dutch tradition of swearing with diseases?
Tuberculosis (“tering!”), typhoid (“tyfus!”), cholera (“klere”), mange (“schurft”), smallpox (“pokken”) are pretty cool and acceptable. Cancer used to be common but that’s rather fallen out of fashion. You can also combine it with religious swearing AND reproductive organs for a trifecta.
“Godverdetyfuskutzooi” is just a beauty, but “goddamtyphoidvaginamess” doesn’t work in English.
apparently the rudest thing you can call a Dutch person literally translates as “cancer-whore”
Yeah, pretty much exactly true.
using “cancer” as a swearword is considered very bad these days, so we’ve actually started to censor the swearing/insults down to “the c-word” meaning that “You’re a C-whore” is now actually a thing people say.
I guess technically “By the Nine” is a religious exclamation.
The nine… Muses? Mothers of Heimdall? Months of childbirth? Worlds on Yggdrasil?
Nine rings for the mortal men doomed to die?
#why do they #talk like this #?
So back in the day tumblr didn’t have comments. It did allow you to add tags when reblogging, so people used that instead. Of course these days tumblr does have comments, but all the good comments still get put in the tags.
Tumblr is a special place.
