does anyone know if there are (canon or fan-made) cardassian swears?
As per self and feltelures’s ongoing totes made-up but very fun Kardasi vocab:
Let’s swear in Cardassian!
Cardassian
Pronunciation
Rough English equivalent
atsi’sepgehtef: to consort with an inferior
e’Gir: defective
huss’vest: to desiccate – a pretty mild curse
kratnij: boundary violation
pled: to shit
s’hUnj: to twist – a pretty mild curse
sark: alien
slet: to fuck
tiz: to piss
us’cut: chaotic, unstructured, a mess
usU: messy (mild curse); oh, it’s all messy = oh, it’s all fucked up, but the sense is mild exasperation; you look a bit messy = you look a bit disarranged, and implications can vary from “you aren’t taking very good care of yourself” to “ooh, did you just get laid?”
vrerUj: unclean, filthy
I believe “sark” is actually sourced from galileoace’s Kardasi, our template.
(also someone mentioned “khest,” but I thought that was Klingon a la John M. Ford? Is it Kardasi too?)
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