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 Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:58 am
Pernese Expletives & Insults Begreened: A reference to the Red Star
Bend a tail: To defecate; Go bend a tail = ‘go s**t yourself.’
Benighted: A reference to the Red Star
Bitran/Son of a Bitran: Could be loosely translated to b***h; Bitrans are infamous for cheating and greed
Crackdust: an expletive indicating annoyance or disbelief; used similarly to bullshit
Deadglow: A really foolish/ idiotic person
Dimglow: An idiot
Fardles: Indicates annoyance
Fardling: Stupid, idiotic, imbecilic; adjective form of fardles
Great Faranth: Similar to “Good God”; references the first Weyrleading queen
Great shells and stars Annoyance or disbelief
Jays: “Jesus”; they no longer know what it means but they still use it
Scorch it: Indicates annoyance, surprise or disbelief; ‘shove it’
Shaffit: Dammit
Shards/ Shells: An expletive indicating annoyance or surprise; used similarly to s**t or damn; refers to broken eggs
Smokeless weyrling: Useless
Thrice scored: Inept; works well coupled with “smokeless weyrling”
Wherry teeth: Bullshit (wherries don’t have teeth)
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Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:04 am
Pernese Oaths & Sayings A dragon among the wherries: A cat among the pigeons
A hunk of firestone/ all gas and ash: A blowhard
A hard roll to eat: a hard pill to swallow; hard to accept
By the Egg: Expression of amazement or suprise
By the Egg of Faranth: Can be used as an oath or an expression of amazement
By the First Egg: Can be used as an oath or an expression of amazement
By the Shell: Usually an oath; a dragonrider may refer to the shell of his own dragon's egg to intensify it
Cracking your shell over... : Getting extremely upset; 'getting your pants in a twist'
Chew it raw and swallow: Accept the inevitable
Flying winglight: At a disadvantage; literally refers to flying against Thread without a full roster (usually) due to illness or injury
For the Egg's sake: For pete's sake
For the love of little dragons/apples: For the love of pete or for pete’s sake
Free-marked: Free of any charge
Giving Bitran odds: Extremely unlikely
Gone between in thought: Lost in thought, zoned out
Gracious goodness: An exclamation made out of surprise or disbelief
Harper tale(s): Tall tale(s), used mostly during an Interval when the dragonriders (and thus the Harpers telling tales of dragonriders) go out of favor
Harper's winter tale: A fairy tale, an untrue story
Has a dragon's two stomachs: Said of someone who has an endless appetite
Hidebound: Pernese slang for a person who is set his ways
Holdbound: Pernese slang for a person who is set his ways.
If the skies fell, we'd not be bothered by Thread: "Suck it up and deal with it'
Left out for Thread: Being left out, fending for your own in a bad way. Said when someone needs help (very badly) but does not or did not get it. Hung out to dry
Like trying to draw an inside straight in Bitra: Impossible
Long in the eye: To be long in the eye means that the mentioned beast or person has extremely good eyesight.
Making every mistake in the Record: Analogous to the Terran saying "Making every mistake in the book" (mistake could probably be easily substituted for ‘trick’)
Sounding like a wherry: Sound like an idiot
Starting to chew firestone: Said of weyrlings that have completed their basic training
Tail fork first: Backwards
Take a long hop Between: Go away! Scram! Take a hike!
Taking a short dragonride: A euphemism for abortion. To end an unwanted pregnancy a woman could go between on a dragon, resulting in losing the baby
That's well dusted: Said of something that is nasty or unpleasant.
Thread-lost: A Pernese expression, meaning being out in the open while Thread is falling.
Thread will come and get you: Said to urge stubborn children to cooperate
What affects the dragon affects its rider: A truth
When the moons turn green: Meaning never
Wherry hunt: wild goose chase
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