damn

[likethebeer]

Can't use the word "gossa" for "shit" in my novel (that comes from Firefly). Or any of the half-Chinese words from Firefly.

I know that it's more likely that a future world system would use Spanish, Chinese (particularly Mandarin) and Indian for common communication, along with English, but I dont' have time to learn that stuff! And I wouldn't know what they were saying if I did!

So far, I've used damn, crap, and a few made up words (including "garg"--don't ask me, I'm writing a damned novel in a month).

Ok. I have to get back to work.

"Gossa"'s such a great word. And mda & I had my niece and nephew using it. They probably figured it was a "bad" word, b/c we were laughing so much. Hopefully it's not a bad word in Mandarin, b/c I don't know who they're running into. Although I'm pretty sure they forgot it. Particularly b/c my niece was all into calling mda a "bucket of buffalo barf."

WELL! There's a curse RIGHT THERE!

note: I've used "bucket of buffalo barf" to describe a piece of gossa.

Oh, and word count: 48,254.

Comments

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

My freshmanperson year college GF was 2nd generation Polish American and she used to call it gwna (pronounced like geuvna). I doubt that slavic languages will catch fire in the future, but what the hell... I like gossa (the word).

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I'm going to so have to use that word. When I hear protests I'll say, "Hey! I'm not ripping off Firefly! It's Polish!"

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I apparently spelled it wrong:

gówno

Source: http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Polish.html