Grrl Power #743 – Introducing Escorpia… And she’s dead
Yeah, what did happen to Sciona, and what ever could this page have to do with that other conversation? Hmm.
I complain about selective universal translators in shows, yet here I am saying these people are speaking in Spanish, but I’m mixing in English and Spanish words. I don’t know, I guess in this context I think “puta” sounds better than prostitute or whore. Capulla is like… wanker? Also “female goat” I just googled “spanish profanity” and I thought that one sounded good. I’m sure someone in the comments will tell me that no one ever says that, so I stand prepared to change it if it’s super weird looking.
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Grew up with in a town with a large hispanic population and puta is a really common swear word. Capulla, haven’t heard.
The ones who spoke English would speak Spanglish, which was English with Spanish words thrown in or vice versa. So it wasn’t uncommon to hear them curse in Spanish while speaking English. So your translation really is what they’d sound like if they spoke English. Though, should have replaced “fucking” with “pendejo” imo. :)
Pendajo, means Stupid, just as Japanese uses Baka. while in Mexico it refers to an unjust, unkind, aggressive or insensitive person likened to the connotation provided by the word asshole but usually more offensive. I learned it from a Hispanic friend.
Pendajo and puta I’ve heard thousands of times (I’m from Los Angeles and grew up there) but not capulla. Where I’m from, even if you go out of your way to not learn Spanish, you absolutely will learn some of it anyway so I don’t know if any of that helps.
Capulla is “Jerk”. “Ching” is “Fuck”. 10 years in a Hispanic neighborhood and seven years married to a woman from Venezuela. Plus Google Translate is my friend. :p
“Chingar” is “fuck”. “Capulla” is not a thing. “Capullo” is like saying “asshole”, but only as a masculine word. “Zorra” (bitch), or “puta” (whore) are used, but why not translate it directly and write “bitch” or “whore” then? Probably because it would be seen as misogynist? In that sense, it’s not lighter putting “whore” in the text just because it’s in another language, anyone who understands Spanish will still read it as “whore”.
That the word “puta” might be commonly used in certain communities doesn’t make it more ok in that sense, it just means those communities have an undertone of toxic machismo. And now the comic as it is written right now as well sadly enough propagates that same toxic machismo. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FYI people, it’s Pendejo (Native Spanish Speaker)
I’m a spaniard from Spain, and “capulla” is something you hear… just about this side of never (OTOH, the masculine “capullo” is used often). “Pendejo” has different meanings depending on the country, and it’s mainly a south american word (as in, not frequently used in Spain). Here you’d probably use “gilipollas”, “hija de puta” “cabrona” “zorra”, “subnormal”, “imbécil”… well, there’s lots, depending on the situation.
My peeve with the conversation, though, is this: If it is “translated from spanish”… Why are you NOT translating those swear words? I mean, really o_ó
For the same reason Qa’pla! (or however you spell the fucking thing) is never translated
It is supposed to be “translated from spanish” though. Not spanglish.
Native Mexican here. Instead of ‘Fucking Capulla’ which is something I’d never heard before, he should’ve said ‘Pinche puta!’. Really Dave, you should have a swear words consultant. We’re cheap.
Or, they are Spanish thugs, not Mexican
We don’t say “fucking capulla” either. Maybe “zorra imbécil” or something like that, but “capulla” is… a word that exists. Just like “genipap” is a word that exists.
The thing about Spanglish is that it’s based on the use of both spanish and english terms. This was supposed to be full spanish but translated to english, which means that the only spanish words left behind are supposed to either have multiple meanings or a singular meaning that is not directly translatable to a single word/idea. This page followed the ideas of a translation correctly (and therefore did not follow the idea of Spanglish) with the idea that cuss words generally take on multiple meanings or are not direct translations due to a difference of intent (like how a thumb under your chin could mean flipping your middle finger, but still say different things).
Omg their eyes, they are like “wtf she just got shot three times how tf is she still alive??!” XD
I am curious if the non-Rico thug is on the super/x-gene/meta spectrum. White eyes are not that common among humans. She may be non-standard as well. I don’t know many people with lobster tattoos on their head.
She might be secret agent ‘Langostina’ (a poor fisherman’s daughter named Tina who got bitten by a lobster contaminated by illegally dumped radioactive waste). She researches money laundering operations, especially ‘shell’ corporations.
Oh, wait. I forgot her name was ‘Escorpia’ so it is a scorpion tattoo. Never mind. It is in the arachnid family. I hear they are more likely to imbue powers anyway.
Lobster are just giant sea scorpions anyways, so it works either way.
I always thought they were closer to sea cockroaches.
Whatever she was before, now she’s just a prawn in Sciona’s grand scheme.
She’s just a shell of her former self.
I sea what you did there
Shore ’nuff.
Wave bye, now.
This new development is definitely claws for alarm.
Sorry, I’m floudering around with pun ideas here.
That one was really fishing for it.
They are. Crustations.
The only time I have seen “white” eyes has the person was blind.
There was a sword I once bought from a Mexican arms dealer, that had what looked like a spell engraved on it. I had a friend translate it into English for me: “I am like the scorpion, like his stinger. Beware traitors, for life never returns.”
I think that’s related to this chick.
That is *definitely* something worth hanging over the mantle!
That’s a very violent image there in panel 3…
I actually wondered if I’d stumbled across the wrong webcomic somehow. A narrator box with (scene location) or perhaps a (“50 days earlier”) in it would’ve helped orient me.
plus implied organ harvesting (her body being worth more than the money).
I read it as more of a bounty, but that’s a viable revenue stream too… O_o
Yeah definitely a lot rougher than I expected from this comic; wasn’t a huge fan of seeing Sciona’s leg get taken off either, even though she got better. While I appreciate that this is a somewhat realistic comic (at least given the superheros-with-powers premise), I hope this isn’t the direction things are moving overall.
Also known as Organlegging!
For organlegging, shouldn’t the body still be alive? I doubt her organs would be much good by the time they got her to a surgeon.
Well, this is a world of supers and magic so I doubt freshness is an issue as long as it’s intact?
Did you see those sloppy torso shots? Too much chance for ruptured intestines tainting everything. Also, yuck!
FYI, nick the stomach, & hydrochloric acid wrecks the lower organs.
A friend’s father died that way from a botched surgery. Slow, painful, & as he was queer, the homophobic doc refused to take his pain complaints seriously.
Do they know, that?
Or for investigation cause she is a super. All three of them are very super like, relatively handsome and musculature, also no body hair, it wouldn’t be so weird and a super’s body must be valuable.
All Supers are muscular and free of body hair (guessing they don’t have ‘Blob’ or ‘Sabertooth’ type characters in this world)
All muscular and free of body hair people are not Supers
Shocking as it may seem, butt it is possible to be muscular without body hair and not be a Super
They have pink Pumas.
That’s because she is a lycanthrope, who just happens to have laser-claws when in hybrid-mode (and only in hybrid mode)
Then why put bullets in it? He should have shot her in the head.
Because he is an idiot!!
it is easier to hit the chest and if you get training that is what they will teach. this looks like a spur of the moment killing so he wasn’t thinking about it. and really how many times when an interrogation is going badly that you kill the victim in frustration, do they then recover and start talking?!?!
Her head has been tied so she couldn’t dodge a shot to the head if that is what he wanted, butt he is an idiot
Because if the bounty states ‘dead or alive’ and you take the first option, the face is usually the most reliable way of proving that you’ve brought in the right body.
Whoops, I actually meant to put “Some time in the last 53 days” in the first panel. :0
That’d be quite lovely, yes, thank you…
Also, a good time to check the comments for good substitution swear words…?
AS I’m reading the selective translation my brain does the reverse. So when they have a Spanish curse word my brain tries to tell me that they’re speaking English.
The thought of Mexican thugs cursing in English makes me giggle too.
Had a cuban roommate in college who swore in English, while speaking cuban.
Was very funny.
I’ve heard it’s great practice to curse in the new language you’re learning, helps you cement proper timing and inflection easier when you’re using it in the moment.
While speaking what?
So Dave has already established that in his Grrl Power universe that when one dies a spirit or soul survives. There is some evidence in our universe with people being declared brain dead and coming back, out of body experiences, those who have drowned dead for almost an hours and recovering. The brain doesn’t immediately shut down at body death and its synaptic network can remain intact for quite a while. Dave has also established that that two souls/neural networks can inhabit the same brain. That said several questions arise:
Is Escorpia really dead,dead or perhaps some part or all of her personality is lurking in the deep recesses of the mind? Only Dave knows and he is a master at decieving and surprising his readers.
When Sciona/an Alari, inhabits a brain, are its neural pathways erased/overwritten or are new ones established? Maybe a bit of both? Or is that an option when taking over? It could be a definite benefit to have access to the previous owners memories and not having to figure out where one is and being able to communicate in the local language.
If the memories are intact, that would argue that at least some of the original personality/soul is still around perhaps fading over time while under the dominance of the Alari mind. Or not.
Then too, considering the arrogance of the Alari, even if they had some option control over the possession I could see where some some of them would just go ‘fuck it and do a total take over and mind wipe.
Lot of variables here, It would be interesting if Dave elaborated on this process.
“There is some evidence in our universe with people being declared brain dead and coming back, out of body experiences, those who have drowned dead for almost an hours and recovering.” not confirmed!
Au contraire Whitefur, there have been many well documented cases of of recovery after body death. Here’s one of the latest:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missouri-teen-submerged-icy-lake-15-minutes-makes-miracle-recovery-n300841
I’m not going to go all religious and philosophical, my main point is that after the body is technically dead it can be revived and in young John Smith’s case have a complete recovery with the brain/mind fully functional. The implications of such cases are profound, especially when it comes to space flight and long term hibernation or suspended animation. Keeping on topic regarding Escorpia, my point is her body may have died but that doesn’t mean her mind is gone.
Or maybe, the doctor who declared him dead, was an idiot
As for Escorpia, she is just there to provide an Alari (who may or may not be Sci-fright) with a fresh (well, kinda) meat-suit to wear
Same as with Rico and the Brain: they are not important and won’t be staying long (well, their bodies might, seeing how there were a number of Alari spirits who crossed-over to Dirt)
No doctor would consider that body 100% deceased until they were warmed up. There’s an actual phrase, “you’re not dead until you’re warm and dead.” Obviously that’s an incredible recovery, but people recovering in that way is easily explainable without supernatural activity. When you’re that cold your body processed slow way the fuck down and your body focuses all of its efforts on keeping your brain alive. You can exhibit a lot of signs of somebody already deceased.
Death is a process, not a step function, (Barring things like being blown to tiny bits, of course!) and there are a lot of intermediate steps between engaging in banter with the guy next to you, and his legitimately going through your pockets for lose change.
If the above shot had taken place in an emergency room, with a heart lung machine available, and plenty of matched blood on hand, she definitely would not have been regarded as “dead” by the end of that conversation. A declaration of “death” is more of a declaration that there’s nothing more that can be done for the person, and that is inherently contextual.
1) That “warm and dead” is a relatively recent development. Almost can say “this century” with a straight face, but from one study I believe 1999 is the dividing line in common practice. I was unable to find an origin for the phrase.
2) This is a superhero comic with explicit supernatural components, so supernatural activity is a given.
3) The underlying post didn’t presume supernatural activity in OUR world, so you MAY be arguing with the voices in your head. Tell them to get behind you. ;)
Yes but it replaces assuming room temperature which required watching to see if a body warmed and cooled in parallel with the environment it is in over a more extended period of time.
As long as we don’t return to putting the body on display in the home for several days .
[blockquote]her body may have died but that doesn’t mean her mind is gone.[/blockquote]
Assuming this is true, there are three possibilities:
1) Escorpia’s ‘mind’ or soul or whatever is going to wherever they go and we’ll not be hearing from her again.
2) Escorpia’s ‘mind’ or soul or whatever is going to hang around and possibly make trouble for whomever is hijacking her body.
3) Potato.
I like potatoes.
I’m talking about OOBE’s
Well, we haven’t even met – er, Escorpiona? Scipiona? – yet, so give Dave a chance. I’m sure he’ll have an interesting storyline set up for her.
My money is on us having viewed the entire story arc of Escorpia in this current strip. What is actually Escorpia, to be clear, not the meat that Escorpia used to inhabit.
If Escorpia does hang around in mind as opposed to just in body, then it’s a little repetitive with the symbiosis of Wyrmil and DumbassRedneck. And I’d be disappointed to see that kind of repetition.
The way Dave did it, if he chose, would be an echo or a mirror rather than a repetition, and the ironic contrast would be quite jolly. I’d expect Escorpiona to be fully in line with Sciona as far as taking over and slaughtering opponents. But, as you say, I don’t expect Dave will go that way.
Well in this universe, we explicitly have Demons, Devils and Angels (Confirmed by Dabbler) – This implies the existance of an actual afterlife. Whether that afterlife follows the Catholic model (Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and Limbo) or some other bizarre configuration like the AD&D “outer Planes” model, complete with pagan gods like Thor, Aphrodite, Hades, Loki, etc, “souls” are a thing.
So unless that gun is Stormbringer in disguise (A soul devouring demon weapon) Scorpy is still around in some form or another.
On a related note: Are there any Ghosts in Arc-Dark?
The Grrlverse has those types of beings, but I haven’t seen anything in-comic that implies an afterlife. If anything, Dabbler has implied that while human mythology has been influenced by other-wordly beings, the conclusions have been way off.
Awww…so probably no Sean Knight?
https://www.writeups.org/sean-knight-mage-hero-discovered-comic/
No, DaveB has established that a device called a Soul Battery can remove at least some Alari intelligences from their Alari body and store it. And that the intelligence can survive for an unspecified time when removed from the soul battery.
There is not necessarily any corollary as to other races being of similar composition nor indeed whether or not any Alari who are not also blood mages could use the device.
Escorpia may be someone who joined the Archon team while Sydney wasn’t there for about two months.
Honestly, when I first saw this page I thought it was Seneca (who I think was first introduced on pg 367, in 2015, and hasn’t seen much screen time since).
I feel like she’s just from a rival cartel or something. Official govmn’t super-agents probably would have enough backup that they wouldn’t get capped in a back room interrogation.
Is it just me or does the blood splatter and wound not match up with the angle of the gun in panel 3?
If you shoot a gun, the recoil can pop it up, so if anything the gun would be pointed a bit above the wound/splatter… Low recoil and it should be dead center… yet that picture looks to me like the gun is pointing below the wound.
It’s possible he’s “braking wrist” while firing, jerking the gun down excessively in anticipation of the recoil. I have a problem with this when firing my pistol, and have to actively work to overcome it. Or even just yanking the trigger way too hard, which can also jerk the barrel downward. It makes your aim awful, but at that range it wouldn’t matter much in the end.
Take a closer look at the panel. A single panel is depicting three shots, and all three empty cases are still airborne. The positioning of everything and everyone is just an interpretation of several moments in a single instant, including total bloodspray from all three shots.
Grew up in Texas… where “Texican” is spoken. It’s great watching native Spanish speakers reaction the first time they hear “Moo-chass Grassy-ass”
Wow, the light and shading.
I agree with others that if this is set in Mexico, “pendeja” is a much better choice than capulla. While not a native speaker, I’ve lived within 12 miles of Mexico for 40 years, and pendejo/a is definitely one of the more common insults I’ve heard (second to puto/a).
Yep. If the last letter of a word is ‘o’, it’s boy. If the last letter of a word is ‘a’, girl.
puto/puta
pendaja/pendajo
nino/nina (boy child / girl child)
Has the word “puto” ever been used?
Pendejo/Pendeja
At least they are not spelling it with an ‘aitch’ :P
Someone wrote it that way in a previous comment and I don’t know how to spell it (didn’t look it up) so I just wrote it how they did.
I’m kind of hoping that Escorpia and Sciona are both here, sharing the bod. Both ladies have their agendas, and have to learn to cooperate with each other in order to accomplish their goals. They might have a lot more in common than we would at first believe, both having “their people” who they care about to the exclusion of almost everything else.
Most likely Escorpia is just a way to re-introduce Scorpia and this is about the last we will hear of her [See is another story]. A possible history for her… She was just a low level minion who had the good luck to find out her bosses were ripping off their bosses, but when she tried to get on the action, things started to fall apart. The big boys started to realize something was wrong, and word got to our boys who checked and found the money they stole had been stole and it was clear by who. It was big money to Escorpia, and serious sums to our thugs, but it was petty cash to the bosses, and since they can use the body to encourage others to keep their mitts off the loot, she is really just a cost of doing business and the boys can blame her for everything and avoid any “repercussions”, or at least they can hope so.
Speaking of Sciona, it would appear she’s body shopping. I wonder if the bro’s are next in the cart?
Welp, she did lead a whole cache-full of disembodied Alarans through the space-time rip with her, so she’s shopping for a multitude.
It is always better to curse in a foreign language, because few people know what the word actually means and you can plead ignorance of the definition when confronted.
For example, Robin Williams told dirty jokes and swore on national prime time television in Russian. This was on “Mork and Mindy” and he hid by pretending it was Alien gibberish. After he was caught, he switched languages.
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZB3XG9fZOg
Well, just because it’s Alien doesn’t mean it’s not swearing. I’m sure you can find quite a lot of klingon swears now …
Interesting question. Does Sydney pay half-price swear jaw fees for creating new curses?
No! The “swear jar” is actually just a way to do royalty collections. The ones she came up with, that the news broadcast (“Ferret balls, new unit to measure surprise”) are being used by other people, who have their own swear jars. Sydney’s income is bolstered by this.
Eventually, as she becomes more and more popular and gets more media coverage, Event Horizon Comics will spin off a separate swear jar franchise which will outpace their normal revenue stream (since Archon has the rights to Halo merch).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9zF8YgT_cs
That’s how many internets you win via my full and excited support. Let’s hope we’re right, even as a joke! C’mon, Dave :)
Rico, no in spanish is “Rico, no.’
I love the character crediting for this one. “Who’s Who” has “she had a short run”, and the characters listed out actually has “some other guy“. I love that.
*sigh* Well, shit.
You know, i once read a book like this, the ancients found a way to bind themselves into the world and would upon thier death, immediatly be reborn into the body of another recently deceased, the energy of the old body consumed (it ashed itself) to fuel the healing an possession of the new. The strength of thier old self determined the distance and control they had over the process. A weak immortal might just restart in a dead hobo in the ally behind his building that froze to death, while a strong one might manage to snag a rich heir that just od’d
That technique is not foolproof. If you take the person’s body before they are officially done with it you have to get them a new one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film)
I wonder if the two goons are powered at all. Both appear to have excellent muscle bodies and no body hair ♂️
You… do know that that is possible to achieve even without being a ‘Super’, right? o_O
Plus, we don’t see either of their chests
If it’s on spain capullo/a is a very common insult, if it’s at america… not so sure.
Although I’m curious, in a society where such things are possible how would you ride rules and regulations for it. For example
“in such time as the individual has been pronounced biologicaly dead (hitherto known as the host) and is in turn utilized by a noncorporeal entity for resurrection said entity shall remit a fee of no less than 10% of the Hosts age subtracted from the median lifespan of the host multiplied by the median income of the hosts aberage earnings over the ladt three years, to the closest relatives or beneficiaries (if a will is available). Should the host body not be willingly provided the entity will need to pay the full one hundred percent of the value within 30 days or forfeit usage of the host body. Should the host body being entity that is not recognized for taxable purposes (livestock, pets, small toys, etc, see appendix A) the commercial average market value of an equivalent of replacement will suffice.
Like you know there be some attempt to tax a second life opportunity in must have same way you have to pay a sales tax on a used car or selling a house
I was thinking that Sciona might of been looking for the right opportunity to take over a body.
Stuck in hostile territory, do you go to a hospital with security, cameras and almost definite respond from cops and media coverage; or wait for a situation with minimal resistance, no cameras and almost no response from cops and media coverage.
And being a blood mage, she was probably also waiting for a situation with a couple of people that wouldn’t be missed to donate blood (even if it’s not willingly) to her magical endeavors
Great tits, and a broken nose. I hope she keeps the nose in the future, it’ll add character to the character. I like that she has a meaningful name. But I’m guessing that other than others who knew her calling her that it won’t be the name she uses.
This is another one of those “whoa the violence just escalated significantly did I click on the wrong comic link?!?!?” pages.
This comic seems to have a real variance in tone, swinging periodically between “haha Sydney did a funny” and “holy mackerel that NPC just got iced!”.
Well, the near genocide of Sciona’s race was already on the table.
Yeah it was off-panel but it’s the thought that counts right?
We don’t know how complete the genocide is.
All we have seen attacked was their homeworld.
That’s a bit like the sacking of Rome in 390 BC.
Wiping out the Capitol is a powerful achievement, but there is still this great empire spread out across a large area.
That’s why they said ‘near genocide’
We know some Alari survived, whether they managed to get off Alari Prime before the attack or were from a colony world has yet to be explained
Would her set of tits be all that nice with a bullet hole through one?
Whoops 2 bullet holes, my bad.
Three
Ah, I understand what they are. Makes sense. Funeral homes will be a hot spot due to existing corpses and making them with heart attacks.
A few other readers have commented in the direction I was thinking, but not far enough. Here’s what I’m thinking:
All those souls Sciona released are on Earth- we saw that. It’s been a few months, which a lot of people said/recognize.
That is just one of many of the souls. All the alari souls are taking over dead sapients (there are a lot of aliens/werewolves/vampires around) but they don’t know what they look like until they inhabit it (which is what the one above just proved).
Now, planetary invasion of ghosts isn’t immediately noticeable (even in that episode of Doctor Who it took a week or more) and especially if it’s random assignment based on whatever corpse is nearby at the time. Kind of like… have you guys seen the movie “Heart and Souls”? The ghosts there were kinda magnetically pulled into a vessel and I think it’s the same here.
Mechathulu will come. They will come VERY soon- assuming they could somehow track the orbs or Sciona’s blood portal coordinates or recognize that Sydney was picked up by Cora and then track her ship. Sciona, however, won’t. She’s dead on her homeworld.
I mean, Escorpia does have a VERY similar facial structure though. I might even grab a couple screenshots, shove them in GIMP and make them both 40% transparent and place them over each other. I don’t think I have to. Dave just Disneyed it, I think. Sorry for the insult.
Sciona explicitly survived and came through the portal with the rest of her kin. She said “we”… and besides, Sydney asking about her was the segue to this scene. QED.
And one of the soul/skull that went through the portal was a different color and was probably Sciona
Good catch, William. The rest of the souls were green, but the soul in front was purple, just like Sciona’s body had been before she deliquesced.
Dave’s story telling happens even when you don’t notice it.
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Funny story there was a comic called Bad Bunny where the main character was applying for a new job at a corporation that has swallowed up his old Corporation and m 1 panel while he’s looking over the application process he asked what else do they want and from behind time he hears someone say all we want is your soul spell Sole as a pair of hands Bradham. In the next panel we see the he’s face-to-face with his old boss who really creates the statement saying that they want his sole promise only to work for them so a man competition agreement sort of thing. Voice text and Autocorrect aside it comes out as a funny reference
The USA’s near genocide, refers to my ancestors, American Indians!
I actualy am spanish. You know, from Spain. I’ll give you a free lesson about swearing in my languaje, ok? ^_^
FIRST: Believe it or not, swearing is like an art in Spanish. I mean, like poetry or something.
SECOND: Swearing between Spain and South America (in general) follows the same general rules. But some words are mixed up and only can be fully understand in a specific country / area. Example: the word “Pajero”.
THIRD: Direct bad words like “puta” or “capullo” are almost never used isolated. We are a very cultured people, so we tend to link them up into surprisingly long or complicated expresions. Or double senses. You need to go native to understand almost half of them in it’s context. Example:
“Eres más tonto que la madre que te parió” —> “You are more stupid than the mother who gave you birth”
—> Means: You are dumbest person on earth. But it adds extra damage because including your mother. Never do this if you don’t want to pick a fight. We usually do not care insulting us… but let our mother aside… -_-
FOURTH: Speaking about poetry and double senses. There is a word in spanish you can use to form around 32 utterly different phrases, each one with completley different meaning. This word is – of course – a profanity, and it’s “cojones”. In it’s basic expression it’s a male anatomic body part (the “balls”), but pay attention:
“Tienes unos cojones como pelotas de baloncesto” —> “Your (body) balls are like basketball balls (in size)”
—> Means a very lazy person
“Eres un tio cojonudo” —> “You (a man) are a cool guy”
—> Still profanity, almost never used with women because unpolite
“No me sale de los cojones” —> “It does not came out from my balls”
—> Extra profanity, means more or less that you area angry and do not want to do something
FIFTH: An advice. Next time do look for slang, but on an specific country. ^___^
SIXTH: I will translate now your swearing and explain it a little, but in Spain:
—> Puta: Means a prostitute. Direct insult, but it can be used to elaborate some weird expressions like “De puta madre” wich means “That’s super cool”. Remember the Ninja Turtles first film ever? That is what they said instead of “kobabunga” in my country.
—> Capullo: In Spain it can be understood as ‘stupid’, or a person who backstabbed you in some way. A soft swear, entonation and context are really important to fully understand . You can say to a close friend when drinking a beer, nothing happens. A word almost never used with women.
Ok, that’s it. And by the way, the most common swearing in my country is “gilipollas”. A funny word that means “utterly stupid”, and actually a composite word from a person’s name (Gil) and a reference to his daughters (pollas or ‘chickens’, in the XVII century).
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Nice comic by the way
You nailed something- the difference between Spain-dialect Spanish, and Mexico-dialect Spanish. It’s as different as British-English and American-English.
… Why would saying someone has balls the size of basketballs imply they are lazy?
Saying someone has overly large balls implies that they are very ‘manly’, very ‘virile’, able to produce hentai-quantities of sperm (you know, when the guy fills the girl so much it causes their stomach to bulge and spew out their mouth, nose and ears?)
Why would saying someone’s balls are made out of metal (i.e. ‘big brassy ones’) imply they are brave?
Idiomatic expressions rarely apply anything like regular logic to their phrasing. It’s simply part of a given culture that certain sayings mean certain things. No logical explanation behind it, that’s simply the way it is.
Google this search term: ‘etymology:brass balls’
I did. Yurei was right, there is no logical explanation behind its use to mean bravery.
You could point at a logical reason for it to mean driving a hard bargain, due the the pawn shops having them, but the transition to exclusively meaning bravery is much more inexplicable.
The term refers to one being so tough that a person who kicks them in the testicles gets hurt instead of their intended target.
The metaphor is usually used for someone who does things in spite of potential retaliation.
The phrase long precedes the invention of jockstraps and athletic briefs, although they did have rigid codpiece and several types of loincloths.
Basically running or jumping with heavy distended genitalia is painful and the heavier they are the more this is so. Injuries are quite possible and though all this sounds humorous it’s not funny to those who have dealt with it.
Anyhow even with modern medicine and support devices someone who was as described would have to be extremely sedentary, hence the term.
Thank you for the explanation, had only heard of the other before
Like that guy in the book series DaveB recommended?
Haven’t read a book this century
Three Square Meals. Whether you read it or not, the protagonist has a penis the size of your forearm, four huge testicles, and ejaculates quarts. Two quarts. The girl involved ends up looking pregnant, her stomach or womb swells so much.
Good grief. Makes me wonder if the author of that book had been playing too much Corruption of Champions or Trials in Tainted Space? (They’re very NSFW Flash-based browser games.)
I won’t go into details, but let’s just say it’s possible to eventually mod your player character to the point that they should legitimately pass out every time they pop a boner (or boners, since they can have more than one penis) and ejaculate gallons… with no refractory period.
Oh man! You are surprised about those expressions? Really? I was trying to be polite. We can do worse. Or go more “artsy” but then nothing would make sense.
We can start with my favorite: “Enano mental”. It can be literally translated has “Mind dwarft” but actually it means “(your) mind is as mature as a kid’s”.
Next: “Más tonto y no naces” – – – > “A bit dumber and you don’t even get born”
Another: “Que te folle un pez polla” – – – > “Shall a Dick Fish fuck you out”
And from then on it gets weirder and weirder…
Yeah, because had only heard it having a different meaning
If you overheard a kiwi saying that something (or someone) was “munted”, would you know what it meant?
That did sound like Sciona making a return.
I guess her arc did not end with the death of her planet.
Yeah I thought Dave said something about her being gone forever at that point.
After showing her and her cloud of soul-skulls escaping through the portal? Doubt he would have said “gone forever”
They were the reason why Sydney got left behind!!
“translated from Spanish”, but some stuff is still in Spanish. In Mass Effect 3 the Spanglish is semi-translated by your implant because the dude wants to say things say words specifically in Spanish.
But this dude here meant to say this in Spanish…. in Spanish.
I am ashamed in this comment page. Not one single person has remarked that Rico is clearly Handsome Jack.
More accurately, Rico is the face “donor” to Handsome Jack.
Rico is a stupid man who lacks self-control. I suspect that in a moment he will lack his testicles.
The pose is a bit weird in panel three with Mr. RicoNo. I’m mean, RicoNo is looking at Rico, in shock and alert and… is standing like he’s posing for a mannequin contest. Eh, he hasn’t even proven he CAN move… , maybe I’m just being insensitive against people with pre-mortum rigor-mortus. from the neck down and actually permanently stuck in a standing position. Rico was actually being really compassionate and bringing in a handicapped person to be in his gang to do the only one thing he can do… stand around looking intimidating… and actually allowing him to provide for his family.
Poor Rico and RicoNo.
I believe RicoNo’s wrist looks that way because he has just begun to react and is drawing up his right arm and hand, but but they haven’t moved much.
Re: “capulla”. As a Spaniard I can tell you I say that regularly. Maybe not as regularly as “buenos días” but it sure is on my swear word repertoire.
For some reason, I thought “capulla” meant cherry orchard.
Untranslation:
— ¿¡Dónde está el dinero, puta!?
— ¡Cagaste Rico! Cuando el Cartel vea que su dinero desapareció, ¡van a cortar tus huevos y usarlos para hacer las maracas más chicas del mundo!
— ¡Capulla de mierda!
— ¡Rico no!
— ¡Ahora nunca encontraremos el dinero!
— ¡Cállate! El cuerpo de Scorpia valdrá más para ellos que el dinero. Además el dinero aún tenemos chance de encontrarlo. Le llevaré su teléfono a Ángel, que chequee su GPS, contacto con torres celulares, lo que sea que enganche. Busquen pistas en su camioneta y pregunten en el pueblo si la vieron en alguna parte.