He was later excommunicated from the Jewish community because of his eccentric views. (Indeed, one of the things Sabbatai did to "convince" the Jews that he was the Messiah was to pronounce the Sacred Name of God, something forbidden to do except by the High Priest). At the age of forty, he was forced by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV to convert to Islam, and many of his followers converted with him, thereby defaming the Name of God. Shabbetai was the founder of the Jewish "Sabbatean" movement, influenced by the esotericism of Rabbi Isaac Luria. A late medieval Kabbalist (1626-1676) and false Messiah. שַׁבְּתַי צְבִי Also spelled "Shabbetai Zevi," "Sabbatai Sevi," and so on. ![]() Those born outside the Core are more likely to have at least a little of the Frontier in their speech.(SA-bah) n. "Frontier Slang" sounds sloppy and quaint to Core speakers, who judge the speaker as poorly educated and low class. "Core Speech" is carefully used and grammatically correct. In English, there are two predominant speech patterns. Religion, politics, social class, and wealth are touchy subjects - as is mention of the Unification War. ![]() Some speech isn't cursing by traditional definition, but it will cause fists and bullets to fly just the same. In addition, English-based epithets, generally adapted from current words, continue to evolve. The majority of Chinese language influence in Firefly is based on epithets and curses however, some other terms, such as “mei-mei” (meaning “little sister”) are used between characters at different times, showing that there is more Chinese influence than is commonly used in the show itself. We're humped!") Cursing in Chinese is considered more imaginative and expressive, and most everyone does it - at least when his mother has left the room. The basics include Gorram ("Run! It's the gorram law!"), Ruttin' ("It's gettin' too ruttin' hot in here."), and Humped ("He's got a gun on us. While the traditional English swear words have survived intact, a few additional crude cuss words have been added to the common man's vocabulary. Human beings have happily fouled the gift of language with whatever inventive, vindictive, and insulting expressions they can imagine. Examples of such widely spoken languages outside of English and Chinese in the 'Verse include Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Hindi. However, many of Earth's languages besides English and Chinese have spread across the 'Verse and are widely spoken by many people next to the two mentioned (and dominant) languages. Only rarely, however, will anyone encounter a community that speaks a non-dominant language exclusively. Hundreds of languages made the great leap from Earth-That-Was and most of them survive in pockets and ghettos on most worlds. Nevertheless, each episode's individual wiki page contains a "Mandarin Translation" section. If the viewer chooses to add subtitles on Netflix, the screen will display "Speaking Chinese" rather than translating what the character is actually saying. Wash "speaking Chinese" to Zoë in episode 1 "Serenity."įirefly does not translate what the characters are saying when speaking in Mandarin. Of the central planets, Londinium is primarily English-speaking, while Sihnon stands out as a center of Chinese influence. It pays to know at least a little of both if you plan to get very far. Slang and linguistic shortcuts are used on the frontier, though some have filtered back into the refined speech usually found on worlds of the Core.įolks in the 'Verse speak English or Chinese, one or the other being the dominant tongues most everywhere. It is easy to distinguish a person from the central planets from one born and raised out on the Rim. Culture and language have both continued to evolve, with economics becoming a primary dividing line. Thus many generations later, the children of the Earth-That-Was don't think much back to the days of civilization, but continue the legacy by their almost universal fluency in both English and Chinese. A person's ethnicity became far less important than competence and character. ![]() ![]() After a full generation had lived and died in the massive convoy of ships slowly trudging from star to star, the average person was at least bi-lingual and had a very multicultural outlook. Once the exodus of mankind had begun, the close quarters and difficult survival conditions in space broke down traditional barriers of language and culture.
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