History Main / FutureSlang

* {{Cyberpunk}} FantasticNoir detective series, ''Literature/BubblesInSpace'' has a hilarious example as it is set centuries in the future but the author uses outdated 1930s and 1940s slang like skirt, dame, bangtail, and more to create the same effect as a more futuristic vocabulary.

* Used by Judy Jetson in ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' -- where all the future slang was made up of space terminology. "Jumping Jupiter" is a common one find in plenty of future-themed Hannah Barbara cartoon.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' has a few of these such as "Ghoul" (humans mutated from excessive radiation) and "[[VideoGame/Fallout4 scavver]]" (short for "scavenger", a term for people who loot Pre-War buildings). "Scavanger" and it's Boston shortening are seen as derogatory so the term "Prospector" is the more polite term.

See also LanguageDrift, PardonMyKlingon, UnusualEuphemism, FantasticSlurs, NewSpeak, StrangeSyntaxSpeaker, LeetLingo, TechnoBabble.

** "AV" : "Aerodyne Vehicle" or "Aerial Vehicle"; essentially the universe's HoverCars.

** "Flatlined/Zeroed": to be killed.
** "Edgerunner": a mercenary who usually works under the employ of a "fixer" (see below) to carry out contracts. Such contracts can be anything from rescuing hostages, retrieving stolen property (or stealing it themselves) carrying out a hit, and really anything in between. Edgerunners can often work as a team for bigger jobs, but those who go their own way without a team are known as "Solos," and are often [[OneManArmy forces to be reckoned with]] in their own rights.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters "Carnival of Monsters"]], Vorg tries talking to the Pertwee Doctor in "carnival lingo", assuming from his outrageous dress scene that he's a fellow entertainer. For once the Doctor's miraculous language abilities let him down (the Amazing Translating TARDIS was not yet canon). Amusingly enough, the "polari" Vorg uses is actual, real-world carnival slang (carnival, not circus).

* ''Series/BabylonFive''
** The first season features the expression "stroke off", in place of the current "fuck off". Presumably this refers to [[{{a date with rosy palms}} masturbation]].

* ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'' used this primarily as ways to deride people born through natural conception -- "godchild," "faithbirth" and so on.

* ''Literature/StandOnZanzibar'' has "shiggies" for young women, "muckers" for people driven to mass murder by population pressure,and "AfrAms" for Blacks, from Afro-Americans (which only caught on briefly).

** in ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'', where the hero narrates and speaks in a futuristic accent, something like Hollywood Russian. The reasoning is this is a future that ran headlong into TheGreatPoliticsMessUp and the USSR was one of the main countries colonizing the moon, so the lunar society inherited a lot of Russian words and syntax. They didn't get any Chinese from the third of the moon that was colonized by the Chinese, because Honk Kong Luna is isolated from the rest of the moon, not having any tube connection to Novy Leningrad or Luna City.
** "Grok" in ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' is a word in Martian that means, "to drink", "to live" or "to understand". Colloquially it can be better translated as "To understand something so thoroughly that the observer becomes part of the observed." Just read the book.
** Heinlein put the invented word "slipstick" into his characters' mouths so frequently, a whole generation of his fans are growing up with the false idea that people who used slide rules actually called them that. (The accepted idiom, btw, was "guessing stick".)

** Technically the ''Star Wars'' stuff would be Past Slang as it's all a long time ago.... Anyway, [[Literature/XWingSeries X-wing pilots]] have plenty of slang for all manner of fighters. TIE fighters are Eyeballs, Interceptors are Squints, Bombers are Dupes, and so on and so forth.

* The ''Literature/{{Uglies}}'' series has a totally bubbly form of this. It's so happy-making!
** Or completely brain-missing, depending on who you talk to.
** The same author, in ''The Last Days'', uses "fawesome." ''Constantly.''
** [[Creator/ScottWesterfeld The same author]] also uses a lots of Future-past slang in ''Literature/{{Leviathan}}'', mostly to cover up swearing by the air force. Words like clart and bum-rag are used often.

** Society in general has developed a line of slang words surrounding their revised idea of a family unit, the bash', which does not consist of related/married people anymore, but of friends/like-minded individuals who set up their own households and rear any children they might have together. This has produced words like ba'sibs and ba'pas (siblings and parents, respectively), all based on the japanese word for 'home', [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld i-basho]].

*** "Cogboys", the Guard's semi-derisive name for Techpriests. If they're a ''liked'' cogboy, they'll also get a nickname (i.e. [[PosthumousCharacter "Sparky."]])

* ''Literature/TheYiddishPolicemansUnion'' has more AlternateHistory slang, largely derived from several Yiddish words/phrases:

** in ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'', where the hero narrates and speaks in a futuristic accent, something like Hollywood Russian. The reasoning is this is a future that ran headlong into TheGreatPoliticsMessUp and the USSR was one of the main countries colonizing the moon, so the lunar society inherited a lot of Russian words and syntax. They didn't get any Chinese from the third of the moon that was colonized by the Chinese, because Honk Kong Luna is isolated from the rest of the moon, not having any tube connection to Novy Leningrad or Luna City.

** in ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'', where the hero narrates and speaks in a futuristic accent, something like Hollywood Russian. The reasoning is this is a future that ran headlong into TheGreatPoliticsMessUp and the USSR was one of the main countries colonizing the moon, so the lunar society inherited a lot of Russian words and syntax. Oddly though, they didn't get any Chinese from the third of the moon that was colonized by the Chinese.

* The ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' series is chock full of both {{Unusual Euphemism}}s and CurseOfTheAncients style language, but it is unique in that its FutureSlang evolves over the course of the series. Things are described as being as ferocious as Radeligian cateagles or lacking the sense of a Zabriskan fontema -- but only after they have been introduced already. The series also has Future Curses involving the god Klono ("Klono's carballoy claws!" and so on) who's apparently been invented so that Lensmen can curse a blue streak without blaspheming against any genuine religious beliefs.

* ''Make Us Happy'': The computer-controlled utopia of Arthur Herzog's novel has "fusb" replacing all swear words. At one point the main character is banished from civilization, and he "regresses" to "polyprofanity", i.e. using more swear words than "fusb".

** "Fixer": a middleman who acts as a broker between clients and edgerunner contractors. Typically they do not take part in much action themselves, but anyone with more than three brain cells to rub together in Night City know that screwing over your Fixer (or your Fixer screwing over you or your client) is a good way to get blacklisted or worse.

** ''Literature/StarWarsScoundrels'' has an undercover Lando Calrissian talk his way out of a jam by claiming to a [[TheSyndicate Black Sun]] boss that a particular word is Falleen[[labelnote:*]]A species of TheReptilians, several members of which form the upper echelon of Black Sun[[/labelnote]] slang for "Hutt." Once he's clear of the mess, he remarks to another character that that's the beauty of slang: you can never be sure you know all of it since it changes so fast.

* In ''WebAnimation/MundoUltimateNewsCp'', Icetown Smart City from the 2090s has a few future slangs. One of them is "estaut", meaning anything that sounds amazing or exciting, and "baul"for things that seems boring, uncomfortable or cringyworth.

* In''WebAnimation/MundoUltimateNewsCp'', Icetown Smart City from the 2090s has a few future slangs. One of them is "estaut", meaning anything that sounds amazing or exciting, and "baul"for things that seems boring, uncomfortable or cringyworth.

* In''WebAnimation/MundoUltimateNewsCp, Icetown Smart City from the 2090s has a few future slangs. One of them is "estaut", meaning anything that sounds amazing or exciting, and "baul"for things that seems boring, uncomfortable or cringyworth.

* Icetown SmartCity in the 2090s''WebAnimation/MundoUltimateNewsCp has a few future slangs. One of them is "estaut", meaning anything that sounds amazing or exciting, and "baul"for things that seems boring, uncomfortable or cringyworth.