"Mellow greetings. What seems to be your boggle?"
—Boggle Guard, Demolition Man
"...there was no law yet against prodding note some of the new veshches note which they used to put into the old moloko note , so you could peet note it with vellocet note or synthemesc note or drencrom note or one or two other veshches note which could give you a nice quiet horrorshow note fifteen minutes admiring Bog note And All His Holy Angels And Saints in your left shoe with lights bursting all over your mozg note ."
Teen in a flying car: What the shock is that?
Linkara: Ah, it's always fun when we try to predict future slang words.
90s Kid, from the year 2099: This comic is totally 'rodolicious'!
Linkara: Ah, it's always fun when we try to predict future slang words.
90s Kid, from the year 2099: This comic is totally 'rodolicious'!
— Atop the Fourth Wall, reviewing Spider-Man 2099 #1
"Jack-off and smell the soycaf, chummer! There's no save file there!"
— Genesis version of Shadowrun
"Frell you!" cursed Buster.
"Go frak yourself!" replied Proton.
"Smeghead!"
"Shazbot!"
"Floop!"
"Scruffy nerfherder!"
"Drokking bastich!"
"Asshole!"
"Asshole? What kind of gorram swearword is that?"
"I don't know...I made it up!
"Go frak yourself!" replied Proton.
"Smeghead!"
"Shazbot!"
"Floop!"
"Scruffy nerfherder!"
"Drokking bastich!"
"Asshole!"
"Asshole? What kind of gorram swearword is that?"
"I don't know...I made it up!
"Vampires are lurks. A spin is a lie. Toy is bad, but spled is good. Boy, the English language is just losing it. I should have treated it better."
— Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8 "Time of Your Life"
"Rather than simply adopting the slang of the day, Burgess realised that to make his book timeless, to make the youth culture in it feel always young and dangerous, he needed to invent his own - and what more rebellious thing was there at the time than to adopt Russian words? In the UK, where the USSR was enemy number one, and communism was seen as the greatest threat in the world, what better way could young people find to push the boundaries and tell off their parents than to make Russian cool? And it works so well. To this day, the language feels fresh and young. It feels alive in a way that no snapshot of youth culture or borrowing of the lingo of the time could ever have."
