Scum: Words

From RPGnet
Revision as of 08:47, 9 March 2009 by Asklepios (talk | contribs) (Words That Scum Use)
Jump to: navigation, search

Scum: Main Page --> Scum: Words



Speaking Scum

Part of getting into character for this game is learning to speak proper English, like. Its part of the roleplaying experience!

British players and GMs likely won't need this handy lexicon, as its the language of a Friday night on the town. Americans will likely know a lot of the words here, as British teenagers learn most of what they know from American TV anyway.

This section's pretty much for the rest of the world...

Words That Scum Use

Boozing - Going out to drink alcohol.

GTI - Any fast small car, regardless of whether its actually a Golf GTI or not.

Innit - "Is it not?" Normally appended on the end of a sentence, more as punctuation than as an actual question. Usage: "We're going down the pub, innit?"

Mate - Halfway between an acquaintance and a friend, normally of the same gender as yourself. Usage: "You're a mate, mate." "We're mates, ain't we?" "Me and my mates going boozing."

Pisshead - Someone who drinks a lot of alcohol. Amongst Scum, this is a mark of respect rather than a derogatory term.

Preggers - Pregnant. Also "knocked up", "up the duff", "bun in the oven", "preggo", "PG", "in the pudding club", and many more. You know how Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow, because snow is such a common thing for them? Well, for Scum there are hundreds of words for pregnancy...

Shaggable - Sexually attractive.

Rozzer - Policeman. "The rozzers" = police generally. Also known as "the filth", "the pigs", "them Nazis" and heralded by "I smell bacon".

Souped-Up - Enhanced, specifically relating to cars or car engines. Note that we're not talking F1 fine tuning here, but rather things like glowing blue underlights, unnecessary spoilers, excessive decals and deliberate holes in the exhaust pipes for that turbo-roar noise. Expert mechanics, these guys ain't.

Well - "Very". For example, well shaggable = very shaggable, well hard = very hard, well difficult = very difficult.

Words That Are Used at Scum

Bad Children - What foreign shopkeepers like Mr. Patel call the Scum. Usage: "You are very bad children, you will be leaving my shop now."

Chav - What "normal kids" call the protagonists of this game, usually with laughter and contempt. Usually its people under the age of 25 who'll use the word "chav".

Scum - What "right thinking decent people" call the protagonists of this game, usually with a spitting snarl. Usually its people over the age of 25 who will use this term.