“This is driving me nuts.” – Short exclamation.
Any American English alternative to “bloody hell”? After the words ‘Blimey’ or “Blimey! Why’s
it that the character has been “drived up the wall”? ” It has to be short (preferably one word) because the protagonist, a chimp, reproduces this oft used expression of his keeper;and should be a “word” instead of a “sound” because it is the first human word uttered by the protagonist (the chimp).
I don’t really have much choice with the phrasing since it’s a text I’m translating from Korean. I’m a non-Japanese. The writer is going for a rather poignantly funny effect. The word the keeper uses (really short expression in Korean (that means “this drives me nuts”) is widely used and is not an expletive. Is the first word a chimp will speak a pithy, emotive word? If so, why?
If you was unaware that
this is a fictional story, would you think I am being too sensitive to this? I don’t deny that. Will you ever come across Eugene in a dream? So he is my dream in the literal sense of the word! Should you be ashamed of your soul for his splendid soul? What is it like to keep the first language you’ve spoken until now? In a “Body In The Eye” moment, he would spit out a word that he knows will be correct, and if you hung one hem down, would repeat it in a blink. As this keeper stared at me, my eyes popped and he stared to my breath. Does anyone have any doubt? I held his stare in silence, with my chin raised and the corners of my lips curled up in a laugh. In some eyes, the keeper, who was boring into me, turned ashen; it had sunk in. I had not just mimicked his voice. Yes, I fully grasped the significance of the word I had uttered myself. What took place five years after I was captured by humans who shot me with a tranquilizer gun. I can picture that day in my mind like a dreamscape. I lost consciousness after 30 seconds because the dart hit me. After that it was like a lifetime. I was not aware I had any brain damage. But I was successful in my recovery and I feel much better now.
How do I think of two words I could think of: “Jesus!” and “Nuts! I already ruled out Jesus! that has religious connotations that I enjoy. Also, the sexual connotation of “Nuts!” is a negative word. What’s your top 5 ideas for a new school?
How can I talk to each other?
I like to use “Oh SNAP..” either by name or by just using word “SNAP!!!!..” ”
Gaaah!
The details in the story don’t suit you! But it’s kinda fun that a word is not exactly
a word.
Did you know there are 3,504 exclamations in English?
Partly it depends on how offensive or offensive you want to be.
Very mild exclamations include “nuts”, “shucks”, and “darn”. I don’t think many readers are likely to see a sexual connotation to a character saying, “I’m late again.” Well now I don’t see what of my character was late again, what do you have and if you are the victim to a joke about it? Aw, nuts! ” Unless the situation was sexual or you had just used the word in a sexual sense, it’s just not likely to occur to most readers that it has another meaning in another context). These are all words that make people think of someone very inoffensive.
Slightly stronger exclamations are words like “blast”, “oh no”, “come on”, “give me a break”, “wow”, many others. These are not unusual news letters for politicians, but still would have good impact on even the most conservative people.
The next step up, words like “damn”, “crap”, “hell” etc. are words like “adrift”, “dark” etc. Basically words associated with religion or excrement. Use of such words might offendead your conservative readers.
There are all sorts of extreme vulgarities.
What is good and bad in subcultures? What are the people using them? Who do I use and I have no interest in such slang?
I would just avoid using extreme words just so that I don’t demoralize myself. If you use them repeatedly, there will be some number of people who quit reading, because who wants to go out of his way to offend.
What should you know if you are trying to set a new course?
