History Main / PardonMyKlingon

* The ''{{Thief}}'' series has the word "Taffer". Its also used as "What the taff?"

** On another note, Cpt Carrot is known as the only man who can audibly swear in asterisks. "D*mn!"

** Occasionally invoked with Troll words also. ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'' introduces the word ''groophar'', which is implied to be trollish for "fuck".

*** And then there's Nanny Ogg's favorite expression following an off-color remark:
---> Pardon my Klatichian.

* ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross]]'': "Yakh! Deculture!" Even when Zentraedi are speaking Japanese like the rest of the cast, this phrase tends to go untranslated. From context, it is almost always used as a profanity, though the word "deculture" eventually becomes human slang meaning "awesome!" in-universe.

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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' flavor text writer Doug Beyer takes on this issue [[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/db37 here]].

** Probably the most frequently used Klingon insult is ''peta'Q'', which generally means "someone who is useless or weak" but literally translates along the lines of "you weirdo!" [[hottip:*:It actually uses a second person plural verbal prefix, which doesn't quite translate into English, but might be similar in sense to the plural suffix ''-mey'', which, when applied to inanimate objects, implies that they are both many and chaotically scattered; it doesn't help that Klingon doesn't have adjectives as such, only verbs describing properties of an object, and there's some indication that even the distinction between nouns and verbs is a little arbitrary. Therefore, the exact translation is ''really'' complicated (and possibly nonsensical in English), but is probably along the lines of "You 'you are many annoying weird things' person!" It probably has a connotation similar to "pervert".]]

** During the later parts of the series some alien characters (Aeryn in particular) try to learn English; since everything is ''perceived'' in English due to the microbes[[hottip:*:apparently, each character hears everything in their own language]], the only way to notice this is mangled English idioms and Aeryn's strange foreign accent: Once Aeryn walked off after saying something totally incongruous to the conversation she and John just had; John's response was to mutter to himself that "she's trying to speak English again." Presumably, the microbes translate unknown languages in correct English (for English users), but leave even very bad English as is.

* In ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'', Yacatec does this twice. Early in chapter 4, he calls Tehgonan a "Zin d'an"[[hottip:*:It literally means "little brother" in Shra, but because si'shra use it to refer to ordinary shra, its slang use is a serious insult.]], at which point Dehl snaps, "Yacatec, please do not call him that." Later, after the camp is [[spoiler:threatened to be washed away by magical rain]], he snaps at Ques, flinging what is presumably a heinous insult at him in his native language.

* ''{{Half-Life}} 2'', during the chapter "Sand Traps" had a vortigaunt camp after you got the bugbait, you'll come across two vorts who'll pardon themselves for there "flux shifting" speech and tell you they will speak English unless they want to say "unflattering things about you."

* ''MassEffect'': "Bosh'tet", meaning "faulty tech", is a Quarian swear word that Tali will say whenever frustrated. She also calls Shepard this (albeit affectionately) if Shepard chooses to tease Tali about how flustered she gets confessing how much she's come to trust and appreciate Shepard.

** Mordin once refers to one of his fellow Salarians as "bit of a cloaca, though"[[hottip:explanation:The cloaca is the bird/amphibian equivalent to the anus/genitals and Salarians are confirmed to reproduce via eggs, so ItMakesSenseInContext. He was basically calling him an asshole AND a dick.]]

* When the team all quit the Bureau at the end of HellboyII, Johann Krauss (the ghost in the suit, apparently brought in because he's completely by the book) has this line:
--> Suck my ectoplasmic Schwanzstücker!
** Schwanzstücker also appears in YoungFrankenstein during a discussion of the Monster's physical features

* [[Series/{{Firefly}} Gorram laser!]]
** ''Firefly'' also had [[ClusterFBomb lots of swearing]] [[GratuitousForeignLanguage in Mandarin Chinese]], though curiously [[BilingualBonus most of the curses when literally translated are actually rather mild]].
*** Or downright funny. Wash's spiel to Zoe in "War Stories" translates as "All the planets in space flushed into my butt".
** What about "rutting"?
** And humped.
** Note that all of the above (save the Chinese) are real English swear words, just extremely old and which have fallen out-of-use.

* Non sci-fi version: In one episode of Series/ShakeItUp, Tinka flies off the handle when she learns that [=CeCe=] will be dancing with her brother Gunther instead of her and rattles off a very colorful string of words in the language of [[{{Ruritania}} whatever country it is that she comes from.]] When asked for a translation, Gunther remarks that he doesn't feel comfortable repeating what she said in mixed company.
* Defiance has 'shtako,' an Irathient word used in the same contexts as English's sh- word.

** The Devaronian Kardue'sai'malloc ([[AscendedExtra the horned, toothy guy from the cantina]] in ''Film/ANewHope'') is a fugitive who goes by the pseudonym Labria. As explained in his entry in ''TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', "labria" is a very rude word in Devaronian that translates to "cold food", though something of the meaning is LostInTranslation. He thinks humans are weird for using religion, sex, and excrement as curses.

* Made into a running joke in Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG. Given that it was based on [[LEGODinoAttack a LEGO line]] [[BZPower on a family friendly board]], actual curses were out of the question. At fist players just got around it by using mundane variants (i.e. "darn") but later made a running joke out of creating curse words that would seem "foul" to {{LEGO}} people, many of which were inside jokes. For instance:

* OlderThanTelevision: In GilbertAndSullivan's ''Utopia, Limited''(1893), Tarara, the Public Exploder of the Kingdom of Utopia, enters raving in his native language ("Lalabalele talala! Callabale lalabalica falahle!"); the Utopian maidens all cover their ears when they hear this shocking language, all the more shocking since a royal decree has abolished the Utopian language in favor of English. Tarara nevertheless insists he has no choice but to the Utopian language for venting certain feelings of his, having learned from British education that the English language has no such strong expressions.

* OlderThanRadio: In GilbertAndSullivan's ''Utopia, Limited'', Tarara, the Public Exploder of the Kingdom of Utopia, enters raving in his native language ("Lalabalele talala! Callabale lalabalica falahle!"); the Utopian maidens all cover their ears when they hear this shocking language, all the more shocking since a royal decree has abolished the Utopian language in favor of English. Tarara nevertheless insists he has no choice but to the Utopian language for venting certain feelings of his, having learned from British education that the English language has no such strong expressions.

** "Shazbot" has been lovingly re-used in other situations: Bart says "Oh shazbot!" once, and it's one of the voice chat options in ''{{Tribes}}''.

* "Series/Defiance" has 'shtako,' an Irathient word used in the same contexts as English's sh- word.

* Doubly subverted in TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}, with the term [[SuperiorSpecies Eldars]] use to talk about the humans: "[[SonOfAnApe mon'keigh]]", a racial slur for species deemed inferior.

One common literary subversion involves common words from Earth languages misheard by aliens as swear words in their own languages -- oh, [[Literature/FirebirdTrilogy shef'th]]! -- [[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike much as the English "foot" resembles a]] [[http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=42197 French vulgarity]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Starfire seems prone to using what are presumably Tamaranian profanity and/or insults when agitated. For a character portrayed as generally sweet and innocent, she sure does have a foul mouth -- although she may just be using the [[CurseOfTheAncients Curses of the Tamaranian Ancients]].
** Though it also allowed some stuff getting slipped past the radar, in one instance, suggesting that Beast Boy (accidentally or not) groped her during a black out.
--->'''Starfire:''' Someone's claws are on my grebnaks!\\
'''Beast Boy:''' Heh...my bad.

* [[JusticeLeague Hawkgirl]] occasionally says "Yom Shigureth" when she's frustrated.