I dunno, universe slang makes sense. I mean, in a truly different society, there are bound to be all sorts of words used in strange ways that make no sense to the outsider (my Aussie friends will forgive me, but, for the first month I was there, every time I heard something "[insert adjective] as" I wanted to say "As what?").
However, since most shows don't make slang so much as substitute words and use jargon to convey terms the audience knows, I can see how it appears to be a cheat. Then again, on Farscape at least, there was a reason for that as Crichton's translator microbes could just have streamlined a complicated predicative phrase into "frell you"...though that doesn't explain why they don't understand his jargon or why he hears 'frell' instead of 'fuck.'
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Date: 2006-03-22 05:47 pm (UTC)However, since most shows don't make slang so much as substitute words and use jargon to convey terms the audience knows, I can see how it appears to be a cheat. Then again, on Farscape at least, there was a reason for that as Crichton's translator microbes could just have streamlined a complicated predicative phrase into "frell you"...though that doesn't explain why they don't understand his jargon or why he hears 'frell' instead of 'fuck.'
Wow, this is circular.