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Favorite world-building elements: Language
That awkward moment when “fang it” is mainstream Australian slang, not something George Miller made up.
LOL someone didn’t do their research
and yes I do know that continually adding text to a post mocking the original poster is rude but this person had enough time to make a series of Gifs for a movie that isn’t even available for home viewing yet but they didn’t have time to type fang it into urban dictionary? I’m sorry but no not cool!
I’m curious why you assume inclusion in the gifset means the OP didn’t know “fang it” was existing Aussie slang.
Isn’t language evolution almost always based on adapting previously used elements? Neither Aqua-Cola nor “traitor” as a verb are things made up out of thin air by George Miller; each reflects language currently in use.
World-building doesn’t mean things have to be invented from scratch. It just means a richly imagined, internally consistent world presented in an evocative way.
I am sorry that was very rude of me and I posted it in haste when I was frustrated. not cool of me at all very not cool. the reason I assumed was that the term ‘world building’ was used which I understand to mean created parts of parts of a new culture. If for example in the post apocoliptic world of panem in the hunger games someone used aturn of phrase common dailyt all across of the US but not necissarily in other english speaking countries I don’t think people would consider that world building as it was already part of language of the people from which the people decsend.
I was upset because I felt like when an australian hears a piece of US slang used in a movie there would be no way it would end up on a gifset about world building
I am sorry I was so rude that was not kind behavior
Thank you for such a kind comment (and seriously, for taking the time to reblog the post and comment on it in the first place). The fact is, though, you and everyone else who has pointed out to me that fang it was Aussie slang are right: I was being a U.S.-centric doofus and didn’t realize that it wasn’t a term invented for the movie.
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