Expressions and Sayings

'course, we don't know no desert lizard sayin's, 'cause dere's none left

That is very amusing.

I wonder, what are the common phrases amongst the krogan for "pathetic runt"s? I imagine there are plenty.

Uh yeah

dere's runts, drells, pints, half-pints, sticks, stalks, froglovers, tenth-tons, weaks, humplesses, rot-humpeds, longtails, jawlesses, tooflesses, pop-crests, dents, drell-kneed’s, titsuckers, varren-fuckers, varren-lickers, varren-humpers, varren-courters, varren-toofeds, varren-eyes, varren-legs, varren-throats, pyjackkies, pyjak-arms, pyjak-legs, gormless twits with pyjaks comin’ outta dem asses, narrow-eyes, blinds, armlesses, leglesses, quarter-pints, teenies, tinies, tetchies, teensies, smalls, dicklesses, ball-lesses, ‘phaged, cocklesses, tadgertoeds, splitdickeds, sonuvaurndots, sonuvaweyrlocs, sonuvaquashes, tankboys, tankbreeds, clones, VR boys, code pyjaks, phagebirtheds, phagefaces, phagelumps, shoulda-jus’-been-phaged, phagedicks, phage-ginas, fetus-phaged, spawn’a‘sharia’s, jar-faced fetuses, elaras, the stuff you’d figger come from a dumb shit what calls ‘imself a “new tanks,” shit what comes outta da overlord’s dingleberries, urd-nots, wrecked-wrexes, condom leavin’s, short-order cooks, shitcookers, kiroxes, limp-mounts, latex Playtexes, lizardfaces, lizardlips, lizardnecks, infolovers, info brokers, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand jus’ plain ol’ cerastes…

just ter name da ones off da toppa my head

...cerastes is, like, a type'a drell shit, right?

oh

and, uh

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The meaning of "Cerastes" is very easily determined by a simple Extsearch function.

In the meantime, I will simply defer to you as "pussy".

takin' dat as a "yes"

I assume you will allow me a similar courtesy.

sorry, couldn't hear ya

vents left some cerastes in here an' I had ter dump it on 'is face

Are these your vents on Noveria, now? Or are we charting on a different planet at present?

Either way, I believe the amount of tupari you've left in these 'dumps' is of far greater concern.

wait

shit

you on iceball central?

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...whatever you do, don' go ter, uh, terminal, uh, 5367

an', uh, whatever you do

DON' OPEN DA "QUAD" FOLDER

Dudes, get a room!


There's an ancient saying, that goes like "Sometimes the heart sees what the eye cannot."

Snif.


... Excuse me for a minute.

This one offers thanks to the other, Dwick, for its comprehensive listing of defamatory terms for undersized krogan. If the other will excuse this one's boldness in asking, it would like to pursue answers to several questions regarding relevant layers of meaning!


This one believes the phrase in question refers to the process of suckling, whereby the young derive sustenance directly from the budding parent. Is this thus intended to equate runts with polyps?


This one is intrigued that an undersized krogan (or a krogan lacking in accepted courage and competence) should be suggested to both mate with varrens and to resemble the creatures. Is the wider implication within the drifts of krogan discourse that a being must resemble a species in order to mate with its members? This one wonders if such an undertow can be attributed to the krogans' historic xenophobia; the asari, to offer an example, would surely challenge such a conclusion!


This one has been informed - by one of the duct rodents being assisted at this one's place of employment - of a most impolitic video currently popular among these disadvantaged youngsters. It apparently features a salarian politician of some note depicted with a pyjak emerging from her rear orifice. This one wonders how such a visual effect was achieved (it has not, of course, viewed such crude material itself).


Is this intended in reference to the more binocular vision of predatory species such as turians, batarians, and humans, in contrast to the greater-distributed field of vision experienced by krogan? If this one is correct, the wider implications are intriguing. Such would suggest that hanar cannot be runts by virtue of their visual range, which intrigues this one, given as it was to understand that those unable to impress physically are frequently labelled runts, and this one has heard krogan dismiss races who are physically non-imposing (a category into which hanar would certainly merit inclusion!).


This one must admit to being confused. Were not all krogan subject to the genophage? Is this one missing some subtlety to the argument?


This one is uncertain whether "dingleberries" is being used literally or not. It suspects crudity, but admits to a lack of understanding regarding krogan culinary tradition.


This is intriguing, as it suggests influence from the human reef on krogan culture; it represents the appropriation of a word in a common human language to form a humorous double meaning, due to its similarity in magnitude to the second pulse of the Urdnot clan name. This one is intrigued to discover that such a relatively recent addition to the Many Voices as the humans should have already had such influence on the longest-lived extant species! Such is representative of the newfound wisdom among the krogan enkindled by the Urdnot clan, and it pleases this one immensely to see their name both associated with positive krogan values and merged so successfully with alien voices!


May this one assume these are all false, designed to offer what is referred to as a "sting" directed personally at the respectable Cerastes, and thus distinct from the preceding items?

This one knows Cerastes to be a human serpent of myth. It notes with pleasure that the drell are well versed in acceptance of other cultural and spiritual perspectives!

Dear gods, the hanarity.

Yeah, there's another one that I use a lot but don't think of earlier: "Gods don't take oaths against their nature".

Like if you swore to Arashu to be loyal to a military unit and they were then ordered to attack civilians, the oath automatically doesn't count anymore, because that would never fly with her. But people don't really believe in the gods anymore, so often it just means "Don't quibble over wording or get legalistic when you know what you're supposed to be doing."

Mom's used a few. Most notable, I'd say, are these two.

"Armor's only as good as the one who wears it."
Self explanatory, really. You can have all the tech and the fanciest guns the galaxy can offer, but they're useless if you don't make the best of them.

"You don't need to be a titan to hold up the sky."
It took me a good deal of pondering to figure this one out, but basically, it means greatness isn't born, it's made. Who you are or where you come from is second to what you do, and you can do great things if you don't hold yourself back.

I doubt either is an old or well-used saying, but hey, there they are.

Dad's not big on koans and the like. Other than, "Stand straight, you're not a corpse yet." I think he got that from his own boot camp days.