Your Favorite Fake Sci-Fi Profanity

[D+1]

Smeg.

It's the only fictional profanity I've EVER come across that actually works. Everything else seemed obviously and cheesily "made-up". Perhaps it's just in the performance/delivery.

 

[SilentJay]

I'm going with 'frack', as it sounds more harsh than the others (even if ruttin' is real slang.) As much as I love Farscape, 'frell' and 'dren' have alwasy been sorespots for me as they're too pleasant sounding, even when spoken harshly. They're too pleasant sounding to be used as gutterally as they are.

Also, 'frell' sounds like a shampoo.

Personally, as a write in, I'd say that the Mandarin curse words used on Firefly are the best, as they're all real Mandarin curse words.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

What do you think my fave is?

You frelling Belguim you.

 

[Ace]

Your not the only one.

I based one of the main villains in my homebrew on Bloth (made him a Blackguard Liche), and tried to figure out how to make a Ecomancer PrC based on Tula

I have some prelim notes (in my head) for an Ersatz Pirates of Darkwater setting too -- so add me to the fan list

Oh yeah on topic -- I like Frell of the choices listed -- Smeg is too foul -- if I wanted that impact I would use real expletives

Frell is just right

 

[Evilhalfling]

Bother.

Winnie the poo.

 

[PhoenixDarkDirk]

Another one is "Lucy" from the novelizaton of Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones. I'm not familiar with the game, so I don't know if it's there too.

I tend to think that the idea of a bad word is quite foolish. If a word's so bad don't put it in the language to begin with.

 

[Wolf72]

we can only choose one???

frak and gorram are my two favorites.

... but nerf-herder will always be a classic.