I thought the Gary was your shitter, as in “Up the Gary”.
Bonus meme, with as few pixels as I can possibly get away with!
Crammed in a few more for ya.
No way, I want the lowest possible resolution!
W-w-wait, not like that!?!?
Credit for actually using rhyming slang correctly.
I can't count the number of times I see characters saying shit like "'Aving a bath" or "Gotta get back to the ol' trouble and strife." The whole fucking point is that you say the part that doesn't rhyme, while using the whole phrase as a mnemonic for the thing that it rhymes with. It's a code language designed for discussing crimes. It's not meant to be easily intelligible. If you're saying the rhyming part it becomes much too easy to work out.
I used to work with a brit who sometimes said "having a bubble" for "having a laugh".
Universal translator spontaneously catches fire
The translator:
The computer .... just before the ship wide system malfunction destabilizes the warp core ...
Well done!
I still have tab open trying to teach myself enough cockney rhyming slang to do a "We're the Cockney Borg" meme.
Here's what I used
Oi, that's a Bob Hope resource right there China plate!
(Might need to work on my conjugation a bit, but that helps with the vocabulary lol)
Wouldn't the universal translator translate slang? I could see it standing down if people were already speaking the aame language, but Quark is probably speaking a Ferengi language, so the translator would be translating it to words that match the intended meaning
The universal translator is powered entirely by plot and absurdity. Hence why everything Quark says comes out in English, but anything said in Klingon is left untranslated. As for slang, again a definite "maybe" based on what's established in Darmok.
Basically, don't think about it too hard, none of it makes sense.
It is definitely a nonsense machine.
However, I'd argue that the meme-language in Darmok is not the same as slang. Slang is functionally the same as regular language, with words having particular meanings. The whole point of Darmok is that their language doesn't work like that.
Lol .... this made me think of a dystopian universal translator in the Terran Universe
Where the translator takes anything negative you say or any protestation or any disagreement and just translates it all into plain language in a normal volume voice like 'I respectfully disagree' ... even as you are screaming and shouting
Even as they are carrying you away into the Agony Booth ... the translator just keeps speaking over your screaming and shouting ... 'I respectfully disagree'
Leave it to the Terrans to build censorship right in.
"...shat on a turtle!"
As an English-type person I've only ever heard Gary as slang for shitter (as in bumhole, not toilet) but since the guy in question turned out to be a pedophile it's probably best to avoid that one completely these days...
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