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2019-06-08, 07:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Jings!
Tadger, roaster, bawbag and dobber, all in one strip.
Are you hoping no knows Scottish obscenity?
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2019-06-08, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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half pished, too
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2019-06-08, 07:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well now I'm wondering how accurate the earlier tranlations I got were.
Which, I should note, is not an invitation to actually translate them into their corresponding obscenities.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-06-08, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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I bet the author has been studying scottish people twitter
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2019-06-08, 10:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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* came in expecting to find a joke about bells *
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2019-06-08, 11:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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So on a scale of "kind elderly grandmother" to "high school locker room where somebody just smashed their toe", how strong are these curses?
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2019-06-08, 05:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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I wouldn't necessarily call them curses, just obscenities- these are slang terms for genitalia. Except for 'roaster,' which means 'idiot,' but is modified by 'knobby,' which also derives from a term for genitals.
Although I can't provide their equivalents without a lot of asterisks, I think the clinical definition being given doesn't count as circumventing the board filters? So: tadger, knob (hence, knobby), and dobber all refer to the penis. 'Bawbag' is the scrotum.
I'm not Scottish myself so I don't know how accurately I can speak to the tabooness of each word, but I'd call them slang terms about generally-taboo subject matter, so you wouldn't yell them in a locker room because they don't offer that much emotional catharsis, but you wouldn't mention them to your granny unless you're in the habit of talking about people's sex bits to her.
EDIT: As for their invective use in the strip, I think it's probably akin to the way non-Scots would use certain penile curses as pejorative statements. 'Dobber' certainly is used to describe someone in Scots, although I'm not sure about 'tadger.' That might be Kandro taking a specially opportunity to use an otherwise non-invective term specifically as an insult. Because, y'know, giant worm.Last edited by MoonCat; 2019-06-08 at 05:56 PM.
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2019-06-08, 06:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Truth be told, I tend to assume any incomprehensible Scottish insult is a reference to genitalia until told otherwise.
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2019-06-09, 05:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-09, 06:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Looks like Oedipus complex had a strong effect on dwarf males.
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2019-06-09, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yes, this strip from ten years ago does the same thing. I think the key difference is the fact that the words Kandro used are actually words specifically for the genitalia/invective, and not innuendo.
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2019-06-09, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-09, 06:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-06-09, 06:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Oedipus complex being a prominent part of Freud's theories doesn't mean that everything Freud said was grounded in that specific theory. He had other things to say about penises as well.
Saying that anything Freudian is therefore Oedipal is like claiming that killing your father was a Freudian slip.
That too, of course.Last edited by MoonCat; 2019-06-09 at 06:30 PM.
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2019-06-10, 04:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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And reason for that is child's awareness about his possession of penis. That's why they called it "phallic stage."
But surely you must be aware how penis-related the Oedipus complex is. So I'm not sure what you mean when you said that dwarves' obsession with penis had nothing to do with Oedipus complex.
Saying that anything Freudian is therefore Oedipal is like claiming that killing your father was a Freudian slip.Spoiler
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2019-06-10, 07:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-06-10, 07:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yet MoonCat disagrees about that.
I'm saying the complex isn't central to Freudian analysis.Spoiler
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2019-06-10, 07:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm a Scot; if I heard someone let rip with a spiel like that I'd conclude that they were trying a bit too hard.
Edit - of course, this is nicely covered by these being Dwarves, not Scots. And Scots as a whole tend not to get too upset about being routinely parodied as mean, unkempt, alcoholic, aggressive, incomprehensible, small and tough. We're kind of used to it, and at least it lets us kid on that we're tough.
'your bawbags' is curious, too - athough I don't know much about the anatomy of extraplanar undead so I suppose it's possible that they do, in fact, have multiple scrota.Last edited by Iain; 2019-06-10 at 08:05 AM.
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2019-06-10, 11:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-10, 01:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-10, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, I guess I'm not familiar with male anatomy as I assumed...
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2019-06-10, 06:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just because the Oedipus complex is related to penises doesn't make everything involving Freud and penises Oedipal. Freud linked the Oedipus complex to "penis envy" and "castration anxiety," neither of which show up in this comic.
In English, the term 'Freudian,' which I suggested you meant, refers to Freud's more general theory about the extent to which human sexuality appears in our behavior, and in this case, speech. 'Oedipal,' which is what you used, specifically refers to wanting to kill your father/sleep with your mother, and can be extended to the two penile theories I mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
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2019-06-11, 01:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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There's only one ballsack. No matter how many testes it contains. Using the plural would mean multiple sacks. Or, the author took a quick glance at an unfamiliar form of slang and is using it wrong.
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