Ideasploofin: Alien Slang

Good idea. Slang's a great way to develop a community/race/etc.

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Soghun: Love their slang, like all military units. Slang is used to assert dominance over an underling, but rarely used when talking to a superior unless having proved ones self already. Using slang to a superior is similar to extending an olive branch, where being punished is a negative response and being ignored is considered a positive sign of respect.

Shellfresh: New, inexperienced recruit

Claws: Weapons. To Bare or Hide your claws is to locate/equip or disarm, respectively.

Dryskinned: Exhausted

Sniffing: Searching. Smells is used as an analogy often by the Soghun, such as a situation stinking of a person, or hating someones smell meaning to distrust them. Often it has little to do with an actual odour and more of a 'gut feeling', or based on other evidence.

Snake: A mix of an insult and a sign of respect, to describe someone who uses cowardly, but effective methods. Usually someone the Soghun would like to fight.

Water: Water is considered an element of laziness and weakness, fire its antithesis. A warden who sits around eating donuts and watching cameras would be considered wet.

Softskin: Non-Soghun races.

White: Disobedient and/or dead, a strong insult as well as a relic from the regular execution of such Soghun, as dead Soghun slowly colour white as their outer skin dies.

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Tajaran would probably have slang that was meant to hide communications from their masters. It'd often be very practical, with words usually meaning necessities like 'Food, Water, Help', etc. In this sense, it's more of a prison code than cultural slang.

It's likely that this slang would have gone out of use, as it would remind the users of slavery. However, some may see it as remembrance of their ancestors.

Dirt - Food (due to harsh rationing for slaves, food trade was punished). A Tajaran who was told to 'Eat dirt' was likely being helped by friends, which speaks volumes on their mistreatment.

Cry - Water, similar to the above.

Whisker - Part of a litter that was neither authorised nor executed, an illegal child. Since when found, such were killed and their units punished as a whole, this term is used as an insult by modern Tajarans. It translates roughly to 'Harmful liability', with an extremely scathing tone.

Silver - Extremely dangerous. It's thought that this derives from the unwillingness of felines to step on foil.

Dark - Safe. Tajarans find comfort in shadows, as their night vision affords them working senses. It could be extrapolated from this that their Slavemasters had no such night vision, but this would be pure speculation.

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Skrell would likely be more the kind for extreme technobabble than slang. They're fairly patient and logical, so excessive detail would make more sense to them than shortening to obscure phrases.

However, they notably find versatility in scientific terminology, applying them to social interactions and people quite naturally.

Though lacking in slang, terms such as 'Volatile', 'Acidic', 'Reactionary', 'Radical', 'Conducive', 'Pure', and so on, are used to describe people and situations as readily as chemical reactions.

Seriously, just open up a grade school science book and get creative.

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Just a few brainfart ideas for slang, anywho. Y'all know how I love loring the place up.

I'd want to form it up properly and expand on it before we slap any official label on it.

Crits and contributions would probably help pump it up.

It's not radical...

Also, I suggest that the unathi would call in respected humans meat shields or meat bags or something of the like.

Also, 'Oxidizing!' Comes to mind for our green and squishy fellows.

I think Scruff would work better, because you would grab a cat by the scruff of their neck, not their mane.

Yeah, I just looked it up, the only word I can find that refer's to a cat's neck is scruff.

Think about how 'slang' used to refer to other races is considered today.

Yes, it'd be racist.

Doesn't mean it wouldn't exist, and somewhere it's established that it's basically just calling them the animal they're clearly anthro of.

Tajjies = Cats, moggies. Would likely upset them.
Soghun = Lizards, scalies. Would likely make them angry.
Skrell = Jellies, blobs. Would be taken as an indication that you were too dumb to remember 'Skrell', and likely cause them to be slightly pitiful and helpful towards you.
Human = Monkey, ape, etc. Would likely provoke counter-insults.

If I recall, most of the other races refer to humans as meat.