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Fictional curse words
Orbweaver:
I had a character who, in place of blood, had a more concentrated force of "consciousness" flowing through her veins- liquid memory.
Her curse was, appropriately, "ashes of blood". It generally came out of her mouth whenever she was shocked, upset, or frustrated.
Quantus:
Very Red Lantern. I approve :D
meg_evonne:
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I like this one! I'll adapt it to smegaloon! >-)
BobForPresident:
From the Erevis Cale Trilogy: "Dark. Dark and empty!"
Empty by itself was an insult, too: "You're empty, shade. Broken."
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Think about your cultural context. Even in the real-world, the relative emotional intensity of curse-words sexual, excremental or blasphemous varies widely and can tell you quite a bit about a setting.
In the space-opera I want to be working on, the most common things to swear by in common parlance (given that I'm not dealing with a particularly religious character and the idea of sexual swear-words would make the central characters look at you funny and dig out their college anthropology texts) are "Absent Earth" (guess what that tells you about the setting) and various entropy related ones, "void and ashes" being what the sidekick in book #2 most naturally says when under stress. "Void and salted ashes" when under extreme stress.
This is assuming that one wants swear-words which will feel satisfying to a primarily Anglophone reader; I have not the first clue of equivalents that would feel right to a Mandarin speaker, for example, which might matter if your culture is Chinese-based.
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