insults 22:13 - Nov 19 with 4196 views | Trom | Was just perusing the Dot.org when a few insults started to get thrown around on one of the threads. Anyway I was trying to work this one out: "what a errant hedge-born skainsmate you are" So whilst hedge born is a little left of centre what the hell is "skainsmate"? | | | | |
insults on 22:21 - Nov 19 with 4138 views | danehoop | Shakespearean insults, scurvy knave. | |
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insults on 22:24 - Nov 19 with 4109 views | WrightUp5hit___ | One of the anti swearing substitute algorithms over there. As far as a quick Google provides A dagger-comrade; a fencing-school companion; a fellow cut-throat. Skain is an Irish knife, similar to the American bowie-knife. Swift, describing an Irish feast, says, “A cubit at least the length of their skains.” Green, in his Quip for an Upstart Courtier, speaks of “an ill-favoured knave, who wore by his side a skane, like a brewer’s bung-knife.” 1 “Scurvy knave! I am none of his skainsmates.”–Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. | | | |
insults on 22:24 - Nov 19 with 4110 views | FDC | Seem to remember that been a dotorg joke from ages ago. | | | |
insults on 22:35 - Nov 19 with 4064 views | CiderwithRsie |
insults on 22:24 - Nov 19 by FDC | Seem to remember that been a dotorg joke from ages ago. |
Yeah, someone found a page of Shakespearian insults and that was the one that took off. I think it had three columns - adjective, adverb and noun and you picked your mix. So in modern English you could have "Stupid (Adj) Effing (adverb) C**t (noun)" or in Shakespearian you'd have "errant (advb) hedgeborn (adj) skainsmate (noun)" IIRC there were some pretty good things in there, but I suppose old Shakey Bill knew a bit about words. | | | |
insults on 22:58 - Nov 19 with 3955 views | Boston | Was the argument over the size of their pensions? | |
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insults on 10:18 - Nov 20 with 3429 views | Dorse |
insults on 22:58 - Nov 19 by Boston | Was the argument over the size of their pensions? |
I believe it's spelled 'penii'. | |
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