Sorry I didn't make that clear. I'm planning to have an agent end a charge list with "...and for generally being a canon-warping petaQ!" It's also the only Klingon curse I know off the top of my head.

Oh, besides that if you add the suffix 'jay, which means "intensely", to the end of any Klingon phrase, it makes the phrase a curse. For example, jiSaHbe' (roughly pronounced ji-SHAKH-be) means "I don't care", while jiSaHbe' jay' is "I don't [bleep]ing care" or, more loosely translated, "I don't give a [bleep]!"

Certainly, you can consult me. I'll have to consult the dictionary (I just did, to get the proper spellings) but yes, I can help.

Although, one thing--adding terms to the wiki also raises awareness. For instance, I started using 'Radagast on a bunny sled' after clicking on it curiously on the wiki. The resulting gif was so ridiculous that I decided it was going to be a new catchphrase (or something like that) of mine. Then again, that's an isolated case, and I do definitely agree with what you said.

~DF

Just wanted to mention that I submitted a fanstudent (fanbrat? Fanbrat.) to OFAS here, and I'm not sure you saw that, so...here I am, drawing attention to it.

This is what happens when you take an earlier version of a character and distort her, by the way. It was...interesting.

~DF

I completely missed this...

Ok, so basically, I'll assume that the answer to my question about consulting you on Klingon dialogue is a yes?

Yich means tribble. Got it. That should prove extremely useful, especially seeing as that's one of the main reasons why Kozar requested a transfer--Dawn refused to get rid of the tribble. I mean, there were several other issues, but that was a big one.

And of course the Klingon word for tribble corresponds to an English noise of disgust. Of course.

(By the way--Trek question that I've been wondering about for a while. Is Federation Standard actually English, or is it a completely new language? I can't figure it out, and I keep forgetting to try to research it...)

~DF

(I.e. 'Do not go to the elves for counsel...')

In my own so-called real life, I regularly use multi-word exclamations. "Sweet burning stars!" is probably the most common, alongside "Stars and water!". I got good use out of "Shards and fething shells!" at one point, but that's been somewhat sidelined.

A lot of the time, I feel that a single-word doesn't really convey the feeling very well. A phrase seems more apt.

On the other hand, my primary two examples there are both four syllables...

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All of the examples you listed have a strong first-syllable stress:

- GLAUrung!

- BOCce balls!

- FLAming DENethor!

Even some of the longer ones have a good rhythm going for them:

- RADagast onna BUNny sled!

- JADis inna BLOCK of ICE!

But if you look at a couple others:

- thranDUIL onna MOOSE!

- piCARD inna DUNE buggy!

There's a delay before you get to the satisfyingly explosive syllable.

Just another theory.

~Neshomeh

I'm not going to claim to be an expert, but I have experience in the most effective ways to shout things, so I think I can weigh in here.

Most multi-syllable shouts and curses rise and fall in emphasis. While "Thraunduil on a moose!" is still not a very good shout because the syllables aren't balanced very well, the "Radagast on a bunny sled!" curse inspired by the same movie can easily be delivered a two separate but linked exclamations, rising and falling as the first leads into the second.
"RAD}a{GAST}on a{BUNNY}sled!"
My markers for sound shifts are a little vague there, since I couldn't use the > or
Likewise, "Picard on a dune buggy!" can render as Pi{CARD}on a {DUNE}buggy!", or other, related forms that use two-syllable emphasis like in "GLAURUNG" and the aforementioned "BUNNY", such as "PICARD" rather than Pi}CARD, or three syllable emphasis, in case someone wants emphasize all of "DUNE BUGGY".

This went into a lot more detail than I thought it would, but I find it difficult to paraphrase this sort of thing, so it was either lots of analysis or not enough.

After saying 'Picard in a dune buggy' and several other similar phrases out loud, I think I see what you're talking about. On the other hand, I'm not really proposing that it should be used out loud; I'm proposing that it should be used on a page, in-universe. I find that on a page it works quite well, and that it also works very well in my head (probably because I can think faster than I can speak). That coupled with the various properties of HQ means (in my mind, anyway) that the somewhat unlikely both works and is plausible. (Also, if we deny 'Picard on a dune buggy' based on its length, then we should also deny phrases like 'Jadis in a block of ice' and 'Radagast on a bunny sled', which, while newer than Flaming Denethor, have already passed into common use and are therefore rather difficult to remove.) Of course, this is my opinion, and that's yours...I guess we'll just have to see what everyone else thinks?

You've made some very interesting points about swearing, though, so thanks for that :)

~DF