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?)
@catully wondered how to conjugate. Good question!
(Trying to @ feltelures but it’s not working…?)
Like so, more or less:
subject-noun object-noun adjective verb'tense. (Although it can vary. And obviously you don’t have to have all of these parts in every sentence.)
So if you wanted to tell Gul Dukat that he’s consorting with social inferiors–which, like, true, although you might want to be careful about actually calling him on it–you’d say:
dUkat atsi'sepgehtef'I! (Dukat consorting-with-inferiors'in present!)
Or, like, in-past (‘a) or in-future ('U).
You can also just cuss. Like, you might hiss “vrerUj” under your breath when the sewing machine skips stitches.
Play around; it’s all just conlang anyway. More details available if requested.
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