#interlac

[blancdasta]

Teen Titans 2003 #16

what does this even mean .

[sockiepuppetry]

To Petty for a language barrier

I love when Supergirl and Brainiac 5 are portrayed as loathing each other at first.

I think it would be funny if Brainy and Kara were petty enough to insult eachother in the other's native language. Because what better reason is there to learn a new language, purely for the sake of learning all the insulting names and obscenities to spew at the person who speaks that language?

Translations:

Brainy (in krptonian) : Reckless meathead

Supergirl (in Interlac) : stuck up know it all

[protytwo]

The cover to Interlac #6 by Rick Taylor.

[radioactive-earthshine]

A Non-Exhaustive Guide to Future and Alternative Swearing in DC Comics.

Legionnaires #23 Swears curtesy of the Legionnaire's resident potty mouth Querl Dox aka Brainiac 5.

Being that DC spans many different periods in time there are many different curses and swears that have been used with varying degrees of frequency among multiple characters.

Bart Allen and other time displaced characters are some of those in the modern timestream that use some of the following in place of English swears. Otherwise the bulk of these words are used in comics such Legion of Super-Heroes and sometimes in comics that take place off-world.

To note, most of these swear words are supposed to be taken directly from Interlac, the universal language spoken by everyone in the 31st century as a unifying interstellar language.

Interlac is a language that is many thousands of years old by the 31st century, and the same Interlac language exists in the 21st century as well. There are some references that the language does shift over the thousand years of time passage, but it is still recognizable between speakers.

Without further elaboration here is a non-exhaustive list of the most common swears, their approximate meaning, and general time/place/characters they are used in/by.

Grife

Meaning: Fuck/Shit.

An intense swear used as an expletive for surprise or frustration. Sometimes used as "fucking" where -ing is attached to the end.

Used commonly in the 31st century and by Bart Allen in the 21st century.

Sprock

Meaning: Also Fuck/Shit.

An intense swear used as an expletive for surprise or frustration. Sometimes used as "fucking" where -ing is attached to the end. Is generally interchangeable with grife. Sometimes, both grife and sprock are combined to create compound swears such as "gee-sprocking-rife" courtesy of Brainiac 5.

Used commonly in the 31st century by all Legionnaires. Has made its way into other media such as the CW's Supergirl.

Nass/Nass-Head

Meaning: Shit/Ass

An expletive used often as an insult or as as a common crass intensifier. Most commonly used as "nass-head" in place of "shit-head" or "We're going to kick nass!" or "We're stepping in nass."

Used in the 31st century.

Scroach

Meaning: Bastard/Fucker

A derogatory uncommon/rare insult directed at someone. "That person is such a sprocking scroach I want to beat the nass out of them."

Used by a future version of Bart Allen in the Impulse comics during the Dark Tomorrow story arc. As far as I know, it is exclusive to the Impulse comics.

Grokk/Grok

Meaning: Shit/Fuck/Damn

An expletive used in surprise or frustration, much like sprock or grife.

This swear is used more commonly in 21st century interlac in comics like L.E.G.I.O.N. or comics that take place off of Earth. This swear has made it into other media as an Easter Egg such as in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[evilhorse]

This really isn’t our fight, but I’m a solid “no” on the issue of atom-smashing.

(Action Comics #1074)

[sebeth]

Legion of Super-Heroes: Interlac

[out-of-context-flash]

Impulse (1995) #24

[crashcitycentral]

Friendly reminder that English wasn’t Bart’s first language.