you spelled it wrong
once slang has been around for over a century, I'm sure you'll agree its safe.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x01 - "The Broken Circle"
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you spelled it wrong
once slang has been around for over a century, I'm sure you'll agree its safe.
Actually you're right, I did spell it wrong:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boo coo
Doesn't change the fact is was in fact a slang word from the Viet Nam war era in the 60s.
Far out.
What makes you think it's "officially" spelled that way? Got a picture of the script? The chakoteya transcript site spells it my way, for what it's worth. Anyway, they are the same word with the same definition, the point being it was a French loan word into English long before Vietnam.
And it was used in a US TV show in 1987 roughly 12 years after the official end of the Vietnam War, written by a us script writer who probably knew the slang version of it from the Vietnam and had Geordi use it in that context most likely.
Thus yes, during the Berman Trek era, US slang was used in TNG Scripts.
it was also in season 1 and LaForge has a French sounding surname. There is a bigger than 0% possibility that the writer assumed a creole background for that character
Yeah, Geordi's accent sure reinforced that...oh, wait...
(Of coutrse TNG also has a French Captain with a NOTICABLE British accent.
)But yeah, even so; if someone is TRYING HARD to claim: "It isn't 20th/21st century 'slang'...", I'd say they failed:
https://www.boutiquehotelsneworleans.com/say-what-new-orleans-lingo-know-before-you-go/
Hey, guess what city I live in.
We've already established that its 19th century slang. You have to draw the line somewhere, at a certain point its just the language. But just because they slipped up once in a while (and beaucoup is an edge case at best), doesn't mean the larger point of them trying to avoid temporally identifiable slang isn't valid. Got any examples of Riker saying "Talk to the hand?"
The U.S. <-> Vietnam conflict occurred in the 19th century?
I still recall Geordi using the expression "a bat out of hell" which I found funny.
Beaucoup has been in use as slang in the deep south of the United States since the 19th century. Mostly due to French influence (Creole and Cajun) in the state of Louisiana.The U.S. <-> Vietnam conflict occurred in the 19th century?
Meat Loaf is eternal
To be clear, it's not that "modern slang doesn't bother me now." It's that I would actively rather the writers use slang, and I'm willing to accept that them using contemporary slang that ages with the show. It doesn't bother me that Kirk calls McCoy "Bones" even though that bit of slang has almost completely disappeared from the English language, and it doesn't bother me that Christine uses "pro tip" even though it's unlikely to be used in 60 years.
What it boils down to is that I so fundamentally object to the idea that language should be formal and prescirptivist that I would actively rather the writers use slang that dates than that they not. I am also okay with them using fictitious slang, although that's extremely difficult to do well.
No, they used plenty of slang and idioms, and notably moreso than Berman-era ST.
And all of that is better than not using slang, because that is fundamentally not how real people communicate. It also paints a far more vivid picture of society than if people only ever speak the King's English.
I would be up for that! It's extremely difficult to do well, but as far as I'm concerned, either of the two creative conceits (using fictitious slang or just using contemporary slang knowing it will age) is acceptable and preferable to not using slang.
On one hand, the supersoldier serum was a bit much. On the other hand, an episode without Pike or Una allowed everyone else to have screentime. Pelia a great debut. And I would be openminded to seeing another brief Federation-Klingon War with these Klingons. This episode gets a 7.5/10.
I liked it! Spock’s hysteria makes sense for this time period and to be tackled in a prequel. I liked not seeing Una and Chris for an ep. The effects were great and the Faux-deration ship looks great in action.
That combat drug was fine. It didn’t give them superpowers. I could see present-day drugs like that which don’t get mass-used by militaries because of side effects. We know from “Encounter at Farpoint” that Earth had combat drugs since at least WW3.
That combat drug was fine. It didn’t give them superpowers. I could see present-day drugs like that which don’t get mass-used by militaries because of side effects. We know from “Encounter at Farpoint” that Earth had combat drugs since at least WW3.
Unknown. He and La'an shared it last season, too. So it's something that connects them.
P+ being drunk again.
This episode got removed?
Is that a German P+ thing again?
It makes no sense.
on that note, no sign of the entirety of Lower Decks, which is even more insane on the day The crossover episode is released.
What are the content managers there smoking?
This episode got removed?
Is that a German P+ thing again?
It makes no sense.
on that note, no sign of the entirety of Lower Decks, which is even more insane on the day The crossover episode is released.
What are the content managers there smoking?