Gorram by Retro

FIREFLY CHINESE TRANSLATIONS

Gorram

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Monday, September 12, 2005 9:19 AM

A friend that I just got hooked on Firefly just asked me this. Is Gorram meant to be Chinese, or is it just a futuristic word? I had always assumed Chinese, but I really have no idea.

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Monday, September 12, 2005 9:39 AM

STARPILOTGRAINGER

I've always assumed it was supposed to be linguistical drift of the word Goddamn

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Monday, September 12, 2005 11:24 AM

RYCE

I think I heard or read somewhere that Gorram is a made-up curse word for the Firefly 'verse so that the sensors can't bleep it out.

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Monday, September 12, 2005 11:31 AM

RELFEXIVE

Both right, I suspect

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Monday, September 12, 2005 2:51 PM

LITHI

It's not any Chinese that I'm aware of. (and i speak fluent chinese) So by elimination, it must be the other choice.

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Monday, September 12, 2005 3:14 PM

OURMRREYNOLDS

I agree. Linguistic drift and dancing around standards and practices. It's like the use of "frack" on Battlestar.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:00 AM

EVIESERENITY

I am actually keen to the futuristic, linguistic drift idea, but in a Chinese perspective. In some Chinese dielects, "ran/ram" or "lan/lam/luan" imply testicles, and is commanly used in swearing. Similarly, "lan" also means "bad,screwed,rotten" in Mandrain and some dielects, for example, in Hokkien, "du-ran" means "fucked up".
Although "gorram" doesn't exist in modern Chinese, lets say that "go" (dog, as in go-se) still exists in 500 years, thus "gorram" is very likely to be a swear word that means "dog testicles" or "rotten like a dog".

And it just sounds so much like "God Damn".

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:07 PM

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Could you please just make it stranger? Stranger. Odder. Could be weirder. More bizarre. How about uncanny?

Well then that would make the license plates on my truck say "Dog testicles"? Maybe they should have let me keep "Dong ma" like I wanted! LOL!

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:24 PM

INARASERRA888

I am fluent in Chinese also, AND I looked in the official site -

http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/

- where they define the Chinese words used on the series and the movie, and Goram is not listed.

From the first time I heard it, I believed it to replace "God damn" as one previous poster said.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:40 PM

SLOWSMURF

Honestly, I don't see how anyone could think it anything but a variation on goddamn.

They use gorram and gorramit, pretty obvious.

Or humped for something...worse, much like farscape with "frel" and "dren"(spelling?)

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:08 PM

RELFEXIVE

'Frell' and 'dren', since you asked

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:15 PM

CITIZEN

Just to throw my two-peneth worth in:
I think its Gorram as in Goddamn...
They use it the same way as Goddamn and when I first heard it thats even what I thought they said.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:43 PM

JUMPY

I think its goddamn just cowboy western-ized slang. Rather then being 2 syllables its brought down to 1. It doesn't seem to be like "frel" is for farscape. They wouldn't have made it sound so much like god-damn were that the case. I just think its too close to godd-damn to be a totally made up word, be too much of a coincidence. My opinion.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:19 PM

FFYING2

Quote:
Originally posted by inaraserra888:
I am fluent in Chinese also, AND I looked in the official site -

http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/

- where they define the Chinese words used on the series and the movie, and Goram is not listed.

From the first time I heard it, I believed it to replace "God damn" as one previous poster said.

I'm glad my site is useful, but it's certainly not official.

To add a little to what's been said:

Not only are there "gorram," "gorrammit," "gorram it"/the telling "gorramN it," and "I don't give a good gorram," but "gorram" never appears in the scripts as "(Chinese)" or with English to be translated. It also never gets italicized in the DVD subtitles the way "bao bei" and the other dozen or so Chinese words they write out are. It's English, of a sort--almost certainly "goddamn."

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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:11 AM

JSAATS

FYI all of you, in 'Finding Serinity', it is listed in the appendix of the Chinese explitive translations as a corruption of goddamn. Don't have the book in front of me now but I believe that te appendix was written by the writer who originally provided them (phrases) for the series. Hope y'all find this useful.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 2:55 PM

R1Z

Quote:
Well then that would make the license plates on my truck say "Dog testicles"? Maybe they should have let me keep "Dong ma" like I wanted! LOL!

They wouldn't give you "Dong Ma" but gave you "Gorram?" This sounds like a story we need to hear!!

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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:29 PM

CYBERSNARK

Quote:
Originally posted by EvieSerenity:
"lan" also means "bad,screwed,rotten" in Mandrain

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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:11 PM

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Could you please just make it stranger? Stranger. Odder. Could be weirder. More bizarre. How about uncanny?

Quote:
Originally posted by R1Z:
Quote:
Well then that would make the license plates on my truck say "Dog testicles"? Maybe they should have let me keep "Dong ma" like I wanted! LOL!

They wouldn't give you "Dong Ma" but gave you "Gorram?" This sounds like a story we need to hear!!

The state of Ohio came to the conclusion that DONG MA could be offensive and since the plates represent the people of and the state of Ohio, they could not honor my request.

I told them that I was saddened by their lack of cultural understanding and diversity, as DONG MA meant, ironically, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME? I then proceeded to tell them that I was not interested in wasting time and taxpayer's money in order to drag them through a lawsuit, but if they'd consider GORRAM as an alternative, I would be placated.

Now keep in mind, it took them 2 weeks to say no to DONG MA. In under 12 hours, I was approved for GORRAM.

And wouldn't you know, the day I went to put them on my truck, one plate cut my finger and I literally said "Gorram license plate!" as I grabbed my lacerated finger before I paused briefly and then laughed at myself.

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Saturday, November 26, 2005 10:40 AM

FFYING2

Quote:
Originally posted by JSaats:
FYI all of you, in 'Finding Serinity', it is listed in the appendix of the Chinese explitive translations as a corruption of goddamn. Don't have the book in front of me now but I believe that te appendix was written by the writer who originally provided them (phrases) for the series. Hope y'all find this useful.

Well, not quite. The part about "gorram" isn't in the glossary but in the essay "Chinese Words in the 'Verse." I know because I wrote that essay and put together the glossary, so that "goddamn" explanation is no more official than my post earlier in this thread.

Jenny Lynn, the Chinese translator, answered a bunch of questions for me about the Chinese, but she didn't check the roughly 100 translations in the glossary (and on my site).

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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:51 AM

BALLADOFSERENITY

Yes. Along with Gorram meaning Goddamn I'm sure your imagination can tell you what "Ruttin'" means.

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Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:10 AM

MEHTBI

a... :)

In the Serenity (the movie) i've heard a phrase from Simon (something like): "Echa gorram na smekh" :)
In my native language, it means "This makes hen laugh" (close to eng. "This is enough to make a cat laugh"), in other words - you're acting so stupid, so even hen would laugh. Means doing something stupid, something unreal.

btw, in our official russian translation in movie theatres - it sounded exactly as i said (meaning without any translation at all - everybody was LOL :))

(switch your encoding to Cyrillic win-1251, you'll be able to see this phrase in russian)

"Это курам на смех"

that is all about the movie.

about FireFly, where are no russian phrases at all...
i'm not sure, but for americans (and other english speaking people) it should be understanded as "God damn" (said quickly)

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Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:30 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.

That phrase was "Eta Kooram Nah Smech!" Which, I understand means "The laughter of chickens" or some such...I don't know...the script doesn't say...

But...Kooram...not Gorram...

Or, Gollum, for that matter...Wrong franchise...

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:38 AM

MEHTBI

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
That phrase was "Eta Kooram Nah Smech!" Which, I understand means "The laughter of chickens" or some such...I don't know...the script doesn't say...

But...Kooram...not Gorram...

Or, Gollum, for that matter...Wrong franchise...

I haven't read the script, in official DVD subs, under this phrase shortly typed: "Speaking Chineese" :))) i'll check how it sounds right now, but (may be hallucinations :)) i've heard "gorram"...

anyway. as far, as i know, there is no word "gorram" in chineese (any dialect).

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Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:43 AM

MEHTBI

hehe, he said almost clean - "kooram"(курам)...
my fault :))

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Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:54 AM

MEHTBI

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
"The laughter of chickens"

btw, chicken - small hen, baby-hen. correct word for kooram (курам) is "for hens"

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Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:14 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.

Quote:
Originally posted by MEHTbI:
Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
That phrase was "Eta Kooram Nah Smech!" Which, I understand means "The laughter of chickens" or some such...I don't know...the script doesn't say...

But...Kooram...not Gorram...

Or, Gollum, for that matter...Wrong franchise...

I haven't read the script, in official DVD subs, under this phrase shortly typed: "Speaking Chineese" :))) i'll check how it sounds right now, but (may be hallucinations :)) i've heard "gorram"...

anyway. as far, as i know, there is no word "gorram" in chineese (any dialect).

The Firefly DVDs are notorious for having subtitles that are way left of center...See The Message, where Tracey screeches "Gorramit Mal!" and the subtitle says "You're a rabbit, Mal!"

There are several instances of this on the set...in different episodes...

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:16 AM

NANDY

I always thought that gorram is the spelling of the way some British people would pronounce god-damn... because they roll their Rs... I thought this because in Harry Potter books they say "gerroff" instead of "get off" sometimes... any Brits have thoughts on this?

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Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:30 AM

MEHTBI

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
The Firefly DVDs are notorious for having subtitles that are way left of center...

I don't like subs - loosin my attention when watching and reading at the same time...

Btw, i was talking about Serenity: the movie official DVD ("9 DAYS REMAINING" banner).
I've got it already - watching extras :-E (evil smile here).

Subs in it says on "kooram" phrase - "Speaking Chineese". That's what i meant ;)

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Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:29 AM

KAYLEE77

Quote:
I've always assumed it was supposed to be linguistical drift of the word Goddamn.

It is.
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:37 AM

MRBEN

Interestingly (or perhaps not) in the subtitles on the movie, 'Gorram' has also been spelt 'Gorramn', which supports the fact that it's a contraction of God-damn.

Re: the Russian - Joss says on the Q+A session that is on the 2nd disc of the Region 4 boxset that the literal translation is 'That's laughter for chickens', but that it is a slang phrase that is usually used to indicate that something is absurd.

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Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:45 AM

GRIZWALD

Back to the original question... I know I've heard "gorramn" in movies about WWI. I don't think it was made up for the series, more likely appropriated.

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Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:10 AM

KAYLEE77

Quote:
I know I've heard "gorramn" in movies about WWI. I don't think it was made up for the series, more likely appropriated.

Makes sense to me.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 7:23 PM

ASEDATEDMOOSE

It's spelled "frak". no 'c'.

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Monday, April 3, 2006 5:26 AM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

Quote:
Originally posted by manwithpez:
That phrase was "Eta Kooram Nah Smech!" Which, I understand means "The laughter of chickens" or some such...I don't know...the script doesn't say...

But...Kooram...not Gorram...

Or, Gollum, for that matter...Wrong franchise...

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

actually if you check fireflychinese.home.att.net/ it says that it means that's rediculus

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Sunday, April 9, 2006 3:56 AM

INDYBLUES

While watching the BDM for the 10th time or so,..I decided to put on the subtitles so I could catch all the little parts I missed. to be sure what I heard.
Seems the subtitle people spell it:

GorramN

Not sure if this is correct, just wondered if you guys encountered it spelled with the "N" anywhere else.
'Blues

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Sunday, April 9, 2006 12:09 PM

FLORALBUNNY

I am *so* loving this thread.
The great Smeg? Oh, mama.
"lan" meaning "bad, screwed, rotten?" Yes.
a quote:
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Similarly, "lan" also means "bad,screwed,rotten" in Mandrain and some dielects, for example, in Hokkien, "du-ran" means "fucked up".
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Now, could this have anything to do with the name of Durran Haymer in "Trash?"

TCM, the story of your license plate is definitely appreciated. Wonder what would happen in CA?

(not even going to bring up Duran Duran, am I?)

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 2:41 PM

FFYING2

Quote:
Originally posted by IndyBlues:
While watching the BDM for the 10th time or so,..I decided to put on the subtitles so I could catch all the little parts I missed. to be sure what I heard.
Seems the subtitle people spell it:

GorramN

Not sure if this is correct, just wondered if you guys encountered it spelled with the "N" anywhere else.
'Blues

It's about fifty-fifty in the scripts but not chronologically. They go back and forth, and it doesn't seem to be because of different writers. Joss Whedon wrote the pilot with "gorramn" and Objects in Space with "gorram." He also had Jayne saying both "Gorrammit" and "Gorramnit..." in the movie.

-N
gorramn: Serenity, Parts 1 & 2; The Train Job; The Message; Serenity movie
gorramn it: Jaynestown
gorramnit: Serenity movie
I'll be gorramned: Jaynestown

NO -N
gorram: Bushwhacked, Ariel, Heart of Gold, Objects in Space
gorram it: War Stories, Trash
gorramit: Trash
gorrammit: Serenity movie
I don't give a good gorram: War Stories, Heart of Gold

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 3:54 PM

ADAPA

Kinda off topic but interesting-

I just looked up Gorram on the licence plate search for the state of New Hampshire and it's avalible--
I can't grab it but thought someone else might like the heads up.

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 5:33 PM

KANEMAN

Gorramit who gives a frak about license plates.

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 5:49 PM

2X2

Two years ago, (and last year also) I had a desk top callendar of "Forgotten English" and one of the words in it was Gorram, which it defined as a contraction of God Damn.

I wish I still had that day, and I could post exactly what it said, but alas, it was before I had found the 'verse.

*EDIT*

I emailed the guy who does the Forgotten English stuff, and apparently he's never heard of it and could find no mention of it... (which obviously means it was wishful thinking that I'd seen it in the callendar)

2x2

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Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:27 PM

BROWNCOATJIM

My guess is it was Joss's way of letting the characters swear (no ruttin' way, or we're humped) while still keeping the show on free TV.

Farscape did this exceptionally well, with a whole vocabulary of vulgarity. the sensors must get steamed at this, but what can they do? Aside from go frell themselves, that is.

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Saturday, November 18, 2006 4:30 AM

HISGOODGIRL

Just a gal out on the rim writing tales.

Hey TenthCrewMember, when my husband, bigbadman, applied earlier this year for "Gorram" in North Carolina, he was approved on-line immediately and got his plate two weeks later. NC being what it is, we concluded they probably figured it was a family name or something. I've posted this before but, here's the man with the goods:

http://www.fireflyfan.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=12366

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Saturday, November 18, 2006 6:13 AM

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Could you please just make it stranger? Stranger. Odder. Could be weirder. More bizarre. How about uncanny?

Sweet!

I hope there is one GORRAM license plate in every state in the Union! (and anywhere else in the world vanity plates can be had)

BWAH!

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Saturday, November 18, 2006 3:46 PM

BROWNCOATJIM

i always took gorram to be the equivalent of the word "frell" on Farscape......a way to confound the sensors while we all knew what it meant.

Simon: "Were there any Feds?"
mal: "No, no Feds, just an honest brawl between folk."

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Saturday, November 18, 2006 8:11 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Considering that the scripts all have it spelled as 'gorramn' I'd say it just replaced some Ds with some Rs.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:22 PM

PRIVATEDECLAN

Yeah, gorram is definitely just a linguistic drift.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:41 PM

PEULSAR5

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Wasn't there a thread some time ago with the lucky stiff that won one of Adam Baldwin's original scripts from the show that spelled it "gorramn"? I remember we were all saying "Great, now I've got to go back and fix all my posts!"

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Friday, January 12, 2007 8:34 AM

MAVOURNEEN

Maryland checking in. We have no such on-line search for plates, so I called the DMV a while back.
Shiny, BRNCOAT, Firefly - all taken

Gorramn - DMV worker said it would be declined. Too close to Goddamn.

I didn't ask about Dong Ma...

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:28 PM

SWRIGHT007

Quote:
Originally posted by Mavourneen:
Maryland checking in. We have no such on-line search for plates, so I called the DMV a while back.
Shiny, BRNCOAT, Firefly - all taken

Gorramn - DMV worker said it would be declined. Too close to Goddamn.

I didn't ask about Dong Ma...

I can't really understand why Dong Ma would be a problem.. It merely means "Do you understand?".

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:34 PM

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DONG?

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