Expletive Type The Types of Swearing
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Code: Lost Legion Invasion 6 Jack
Hey, kid, are you sure this place actually HAS a combat AI? These pirate dickbags just sound nuts.
Get it? Dickbags? Nuts? Heh-heh.
Pickle Word is, before The Bosun went native, ‘e was
some kinda AI tech whizz. Not that you’d think it now ‘e’s gone all mum-and-dad mad. But do you
care? Didn’t you just get fired?
Jack And when I march up to Helios with an army of
badass robots, I’ll be un-fired so quickly it’ll make Tassiter’s pedo-mustache spin off his big gross ugly
face. Just get the AI core.
Pickle Uh, okay.
In that conversation above, Jack made a joke while he was talking with his
partner, Pickle. Jack was mentioning the swear words “dickbags” and “nuts” in
order to explicitly make sexual joke. That swear words both had denotation meaning of testicle. However, Jack conveyed them connotatively where he was
using those term to abuse the pirate by name-calling them as “dickbags” and “nuts”. Even though “dickbags” and “nuts” have their own connotative meaning,
Jack found this utterance funny because those swear words have the same reference which was testicle. In this situation, Jack was trying to construct a
humorous situation with the person he was talking with. The second example of humorous swearing was when the swearing which
Jack uttered contained insulting swear words. However, that swearing utterances did not used as an expression to insult. Instead, it lacked of negativity and tended
to be playful: PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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Code: Lost Legion Invasion 17 V.Hunter
Uh, this might be a problem? Cause I got a thing with height, and, uh -- oh god. This -- this is a...
pretty big bullet.
Jack Hold on -- I’m gonna spin the cylinder. Did you
make it up there? Free up the elevator so I can join you.
Hey man is everything okay down there.
Jack Yessh, he got wedged in tight. Eh, no big deal,
though, they can’t feel pain. Ugh, these loaders bum me out -- no wonder Dahl took us over so easily. I
need more soldiers. Badasses. Like you.
The conversation happened between Jack and the Vault Hunter. They were planning to escape the space station which was still in a chaotic situation due
to the sudden attack of the soldiers. In that scene, the Vault Hunter was taking out the obstacle which made the elevator stuck. It turned out that the obstacle was
Jack’s dead robot employee which is called as loader. Jack then complained that he and his company was easily taken over by the soldier because of the weak
loaders they had, just like the one which was stuck in the elevator. Jack then told the Vault Hunter that he wished on having some more soldiers, especially like the
Vault Hunter himself. In this situation, Jack uses swear word “Badasses” in his
utterance which was directed toward the Vault Hunter. Even though the swear
word “Badasses” contained the word “ass”, it was not meant to wound the Vault
Hunter. Instead Jack wanted to praise the good work of the Vault Hunter. Then, it was considered as a humorous type of swearing.
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