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Space Fatigue Survivor
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... all the cuss words our Legionnaires used to spout?
Grife, sprock, nasshead, bloody nass
This reboot version seems to be more reserved on the language, even if a little more arrogant towards the adults.
Celebrating 10+ years of Legion Worldness
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Time Trapper
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i still sprockin spout them.
for grife's sake.
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Reservist
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Yes I do miss the salty language. I don't like stories that are set in the future but use today's slang.
So what.
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I miss "natch" and "cool up!" You knew the legionnaires were cool when they said "natch" or cool up!"
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I was always fond of "Bloody Liberty!" Nass head and Grife! are also perennial favs.
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Bold Flavors
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"Bloody Liberty" was my favorite. "Sprock" got kind of redundant and corny to me though. I know it'd be cool to have them say 'space ___" more often or "super _____" 
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I sort of miss it and sort of don't. I mean, obviously the language is going to change drastically over the next thousand years, probably to the point where a transplanted 21st-century person wouldn't be able to understand it (although I don't fault Waid and Kitson for not making this an issue for Supergirl; it's an issue that's best dealt with by glossing it over). But why suggest those changes only for swear words and nothing else?
The answer is, because you lose your PG rating if you use real swear words in a comic book, so the fake words are a handy way of pretending to swear without really doing it. So I'm just as happy that they're not bothering with it any more.
Plus--and I'm a little embarrassed to admit this--I prefer it when superheroes don't swear. I don't expect anyone to agree with me on this one. It's just not something I care for. I like it better when they're above that.
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I miss the future swear words. IT reminds me of Joss Whedon's Firefly. Humped instead of F**ked. The long Chinese to curse in hilarious ways. Part of what makes a futurescape believable is the language the writer can construct to help realise the world in the readers head.
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the future swear words were a little on the corny side, but it was fun to see stuff like "nass" or "sprock" on the printed page. 
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aren't the current crew saying, "Frak!".
doesn't that come from Battlestar Galactica?
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Are you saying there's no frippin' cuss words around?
I don't frippin' believe it!
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Sweet Liberty!
Muses!
For Grife's sake!
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Umm, what about Gragalog?
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Although I must say. I've been rereading the 5YL stories, and in the Evillo story, M-E Lad comes out with one that I may use myself (I hope I'm not embarrassing myself by misremembering it):
Sweet Maria Sludgebucket!
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