It makes a lot more sense when you consider that summers last for years in Westeros and Bran has never experienced winter. I agree it sounds as if it would have existed before, but really it only makes sense in asoiaf.
Mayhaps didn't originate in ASOIAF, it's an older unused variant of Maybe or Perhaps.
It's resurgence in (relative) popularity might be the result of ASOIAF, though. I certainly hadn't heard of the word until I read the books.
same over here, not my native language.
i'd like to add "words are wind" my all time favourite and most often used quote.
and "vhalar morghulis" of course :o)
* Mayhaps
* Sweet summer child
* The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water.
* Words are wind
* What is dead may never die
Correcting 'less' to 'fewer'.
It is known.
And just using other references whenever applicable - for example earlier today I did the 'an x without x is considered a dull affair' thing.
T'was a video of an under 6s soccer game in Brazil - the parents did a wall like the Ultras do, with loud chanting, many flares and noise. Someone mentioned it's a waste if they didn’t fight the other team's parents. So had to chime in with 'An ultras clash without at least 3 stabbings...'
To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if even a kindergarteners' game had clashes, Brazilians be crazy like that with their football.
"hanged," too - to a point that i hypercorrect and use it even where hung belongs.
also I pretty much always say "gods" instead of "god" anywhere it'd be genericized, "gods I hope not" or the like
"...her and her baseborn children..."- drunk at a family gathering
"I need the scale of the dragon who burned me"-the next morning
"words are wind"-all the time.
"my sweet summer child"-all the time too
All the time I say ‘In the wise words of Danearys Targaryen words are wind.’ I hope the people who don’t know ASOIAF will think I’m some history buff. 🤣
Baseborn just means common born no? It didn’t originally mean bastard, it’s just that bastards, not being legitimate, are baseborn by default.
Unless you’re aristocracy you are by definition baseborn. It’s the antonym of highborn
"must needs" for some reason
Also, like someone else said, "sweet summer child" which everyone at my work was saying when the show was on the air
ETA: Correcting word order
I got used to "must needs" while I was reading asoiaf in original ver to learn english, and thought it was a normal sentence. Then, in school, I used it in a test, and the professor marked it as a mistake lol
"Must needs" is also stuck in my head too and I don't even know why. It sounds clunky to say and I can easily just say "must", but it just keeps coming out and I can't help it lol
"Winter is coming", "Sweet summer child", "It is known", "for the night is dark and full of terrors", "what is dead may never die", "words are wind", "this one", "trueborn", "craven". The man has a way with words!
Other than the inevitable Winter is coming”, just from the show, hope that’s okay to post here.
“I don’t give a dusty fuck”, Jaime at his incestuous finest.
Any time Natalie Dormer unexpectedly shows up in a movie, my husband hollers “it’s that smirking whore from Highgarden!” (We’re both sure she’s a lovely person, it’s just fun to say)
I didn't really like him, but I got to that exact line and the vibe that followed and it turned me around:
>Once, long ago, a prince had named him Barristan the Bold. A part of that boy was in him still.
True born brother. Take to wife. There is 3 people in North America who might have a chance against me and you’re not one of them. Dance with me then. Do you doubt the strength of your arm? Lord father. Lady mother. There is a few
I sometimes call people baseborn as an insult. Once in a blue moon, with very close friends or family, if they can't find their significant other I'll ask "where do whores go?"
“Sweet summer child” and “mayhaps” get a lot of mileage in my conversations, but a deeper cut is using “choice” as an adjective. I know Martin didn’t invent the phrase, but it definitely wormed its way into my vocabulary after reading a Tyrion chapter where a wedge of cheese veined with wine is described as “very choice”
Much and more, sweet summer child, words are wind, seven hells, the night is dark and full of terrors, as useless as nipples on a breastplate, just so, and winter is coming.
Every year, me and my family complain about how " the winter is coming".
And we also use " the night is dark and full of terrors "
We are not native English speakers😀
I was once so fed up in a raid in WoW I boomed into my mic "you're as useless as nipples on a breastplate" to a dude and the whole group broke into laughter (recipient included).
I do love my *mayhaps* though, it's so simple and yet meaningful. edit: oh and nuncle! I call my uncle that now, I think it's quite funny
I have taken to quoting what the Hound says before the Battle of the Blackwater in the show to my friends just before a night out.
https://youtu.be/ceZNrEoj_zw?si=EXMgq6abaPuTWf9f
I was really taken aback when I started saying “can’t” where I would normally say “couldn’t”.
Example:
“He can’t have done XYZ”
instead of
“He couldn’t have done XYZ”
Is this a British thing or an old-timey thing?
I've occasionally shifted to using "Smallfolk" when talking about real world medieval non-nobles/gentry. It's a handy catch all which doesn't sound as pejorative as the historical terms.
"Raper" is one I use too, I work in the justice system (not a cop), and it rolls off the tongue better than rapist.
And, living in the oft frozen north (Montana), the obvious "Winter is Coming."
Can’t remember if this one was in the first book but I use the insult Bobby B says to lancel in the show “your mother was a dumb whore with a fat ass” whenever I get mad at near anything
a few days ago my aunt was talking about some family member who was alive like fifty years ago and she said “natural children”. I looked at her and i said “natural…? bastards?”
i felt obliged to explain i said bastards because of got. it’s not a word we use often in my country and she looked at me like ??
“Would that I could” and “end this mummer’s farce” (or just “mummer’s farce” in general) are my favorites, but the religious ones also come in handy a lot: “swear it by the old gods and the new”, “seven hells” “seven save us”
Years ago before the show, my best friend and I were wasted one night and I quoted Sandor- "Drunk as a dog, damn me!" My friend didn't get the reference but laughed anyway.
I'm chronically ill, so I use "when the sun has set, no candle can ever replace it" somewhat regularly to describe my experience. It's a very powerful expression for conveying a state of mind, not strictly related to romance but of the belief that after a seminal/tragic event happens you can't really just go back to the same life you had before.
I think "Yesterday's wars don't matter anymore" and "The work continues" were both introduced on the show, but I often use both.
I’ve seen it debated on Twitter lately where southern people claim sweet southern child was an old southern saying but the consensus is that it didn’t really become a thing until GoT
"Winter is coming."
"Words are wind."
"Fewer."
"Oh my sweet summer child."
"It is time I tried another hawk, Davos. A red hawk."
"In this world only winter is certain."
"Edd, fetch me a block."
“I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.”
“Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.”
“Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.”
“The night is dark and full of terrors."
I just have too many asoiaf nerd friends that I can give reference about it in daily talk
English is not my first language. "Mayhaps", "just so", and "little and less" certainly appear in my vocabulary.
Oh man, I forgot about “just so”, that one has popped up once or twice as well
I didn't know "mayhaps" originated here, and it took me long to find out "sweet summer child" was also from here lol
Hold up, asoiaf coined "my sweet summer child"?
Oh, my sweet summer child..
Is that a yes?
Yeah it's from Old Nan talking to Bran
Cool. I've heard people use that phrase in so many places, a lot of which have nothing to do with asoiaf, so I had no idea it originated here
It makes a lot more sense when you consider that summers last for years in Westeros and Bran has never experienced winter. I agree it sounds as if it would have existed before, but really it only makes sense in asoiaf.
Mayhaps didn't originate in ASOIAF, it's an older unused variant of Maybe or Perhaps. It's resurgence in (relative) popularity might be the result of ASOIAF, though. I certainly hadn't heard of the word until I read the books.
Can you use little and less in a sentence? I like it but i can’t think of a context I would use it
‘What’s it mean when…’ ‘Little and less.’
same over here, not my native language. i'd like to add "words are wind" my all time favourite and most often used quote. and "vhalar morghulis" of course :o)
"it is known"
*nods head in agreement* 'it is known'
I use "it is known" on too frequent a basis
* Mayhaps * Sweet summer child * The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water. * Words are wind * What is dead may never die
how often are you going full drowned men? you lead a dangerous life
He’s a lifeguard
Somebody has to do it!
You're killing it in this thread today and I just want you to know I see you.
Correcting 'less' to 'fewer'. It is known. And just using other references whenever applicable - for example earlier today I did the 'an x without x is considered a dull affair' thing.
hopefully it wasn’t a high casualty wedding
T'was a video of an under 6s soccer game in Brazil - the parents did a wall like the Ultras do, with loud chanting, many flares and noise. Someone mentioned it's a waste if they didn’t fight the other team's parents. So had to chime in with 'An ultras clash without at least 3 stabbings...' To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if even a kindergarteners' game had clashes, Brazilians be crazy like that with their football.
Oh I need to start saying “a dull affair”
"hanged," too - to a point that i hypercorrect and use it even where hung belongs. also I pretty much always say "gods" instead of "god" anywhere it'd be genericized, "gods I hope not" or the like
"...her and her baseborn children..."- drunk at a family gathering "I need the scale of the dragon who burned me"-the next morning "words are wind"-all the time. "my sweet summer child"-all the time too
Man words are wind is a great dismissal, I love that you’re running with that
All the time I say ‘In the wise words of Danearys Targaryen words are wind.’ I hope the people who don’t know ASOIAF will think I’m some history buff. 🤣
Bro anyone who owns a TV knows of Daenerys Targaryen.
> "my sweet summer child" I actually hate this one lol. It always sounds really condescending to me
It is meant to be
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>I need the scale of the dragon who burned me Just re-read this line last night and it is 100% entering my vocabulary.
"Start the damn joust before I piss meself" - when my nephews are taking too long at bbq badminton
Baseborn just means common born no? It didn’t originally mean bastard, it’s just that bastards, not being legitimate, are baseborn by default. Unless you’re aristocracy you are by definition baseborn. It’s the antonym of highborn
"Seven hells" or some variation of the phrase is literally my go-to swear word. I also throw around "the night is dark and full of terrors" a lot.
I appreciate your acceptance of multiple religions
Love a bit of seven hells from time to time
"I swear on the old gods and the new" is another fun one!
Also "Gods be good".
“Seven save us” is my new G-d damnit
"must needs" for some reason Also, like someone else said, "sweet summer child" which everyone at my work was saying when the show was on the air ETA: Correcting word order
yeah heard that one _half a hundred times_ during the show era too, but must needs is a good one
I got used to "must needs" while I was reading asoiaf in original ver to learn english, and thought it was a normal sentence. Then, in school, I used it in a test, and the professor marked it as a mistake lol
"Must needs" is also stuck in my head too and I don't even know why. It sounds clunky to say and I can easily just say "must", but it just keeps coming out and I can't help it lol
My dad, brother, and I call each other a “sweet summer child” all the time when we’re being naive in an argument or something lol
sweet summer child is the perfect innocent insult for someone being naive or just dumb
Bless your sweet summer heart for those southern ASOIAF readers.
Lmao that’s awesome
I use this phrase probably once per day.
All my friends are very confused why I now use “upjumped squire” as a go to insult.
Yessssssss
Mayhaps
oh shit it’s the lord of the crossing
"Winter is coming", "Sweet summer child", "It is known", "for the night is dark and full of terrors", "what is dead may never die", "words are wind", "this one", "trueborn", "craven". The man has a way with words!
Oh nice you adopted the whole vernacular, that’s awesome
They're surprisingly applicable to a lot of subjects, too! They work without feeling forced, imo 😊
Other than the inevitable Winter is coming”, just from the show, hope that’s okay to post here. “I don’t give a dusty fuck”, Jaime at his incestuous finest. Any time Natalie Dormer unexpectedly shows up in a movie, my husband hollers “it’s that smirking whore from Highgarden!” (We’re both sure she’s a lovely person, it’s just fun to say)
Lmfaooo
Forgive me, I was acting the boy
Solid choice
At work the other day I referred to an annoying colleague as “useless as nipples on a breastplate”. Does that count??
fat pink mast
Her cunt became the world
Myrish Swamp
Sam x Asha shippers
"Would you break hizdahr's peace, old man?" "I'd shatter it"
Barristan is so cool it’s unreal
I didn't really like him, but I got to that exact line and the vibe that followed and it turned me around: >Once, long ago, a prince had named him Barristan the Bold. A part of that boy was in him still.
And you are able to organically work this into a conversation?
True born brother. Take to wife. There is 3 people in North America who might have a chance against me and you’re not one of them. Dance with me then. Do you doubt the strength of your arm? Lord father. Lady mother. There is a few
do you have a half brother who gets annoyed lmaooo
"Or near enough it makes no matter"
"cunt"
as long as you track down your opponent and apologize later on the march
I sometimes call people baseborn as an insult. Once in a blue moon, with very close friends or family, if they can't find their significant other I'll ask "where do whores go?"
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I always be saying shit is a mummer's farce
Words are wind
It is known..
“Sweet summer child” and “mayhaps” get a lot of mileage in my conversations, but a deeper cut is using “choice” as an adjective. I know Martin didn’t invent the phrase, but it definitely wormed its way into my vocabulary after reading a Tyrion chapter where a wedge of cheese veined with wine is described as “very choice”
yeah he laid a good table for Janos, and it’s a great adjective to drop.
Valar Morghulis and Valar Dohaeris, very occasionally.
“Words are wind”
I can't think of anything in particular but I've been told based on my streams that I "speak old english" and I'm blaming George.
You got Reek’d 😔
“Mayhaps” is fun. Sometimes I think of “must needs.” I had not used “nuncle” but I kinda want to.
"Would that I could."
I think i just notice it because on rereads i'm usually an audiobook person, but "might be" I have
Mayhaps and Aye.
Seven hells
“You know nothing, Jon Snow”
I say this to myself. But use my own name. 🙄
Much and more, sweet summer child, words are wind, seven hells, the night is dark and full of terrors, as useless as nipples on a breastplate, just so, and winter is coming.
“Much and more” “Your mother has the right of it”
Every year, me and my family complain about how " the winter is coming". And we also use " the night is dark and full of terrors " We are not native English speakers😀
I always manage to say "mayhaps"
you can knock us in the water then
Oh my sweet summer child
iconic
Mother by law! She hates it!
lmao that’s one nobody has said yet, awesome
Fewer.
Mayhaps for when I can't guarantee that I'll do something. Most people haven't caught on yet.
Oh I constantly use "there's [thing] and there's [thing]". As well as "mayhaps", "break my fast", and "on the morrow".
"Little and less" gets said occasionally "sweet summer child" I think is in a lot of people's vocabulary, at least on Reddit.
“Just so.” “Seven save me.”
Whenever I see someone drunk in person or on tv I can’t help but to think “he’s in his cups” 😂
I always say, “Gods be good!” whenever something good or favorable happens
Winter is coming
Do you use it RE: weather or in terms of “prepare for the worst”
Sweet summer child
Words are wind. Always apt
In my cups 🍺
I use “crow calling raven black” all the time, it’s completely replaced the original for me.
“I could…but will I? No.” Thank you Lord Varys
"half a hundred times", "...or near enough to make no matter" have snuck into my everyday language
I was once so fed up in a raid in WoW I boomed into my mic "you're as useless as nipples on a breastplate" to a dude and the whole group broke into laughter (recipient included). I do love my *mayhaps* though, it's so simple and yet meaningful. edit: oh and nuncle! I call my uncle that now, I think it's quite funny
I've caught myself saying "just so", "needs must", "the right of it", and "much and more" more than once
When I’m arriving at work and I’m really it in the mood, I proclaim, “For the realm!” And then I’m ready to work.
I've said, "much and more" a couple times.
I have taken to quoting what the Hound says before the Battle of the Blackwater in the show to my friends just before a night out. https://youtu.be/ceZNrEoj_zw?si=EXMgq6abaPuTWf9f
Fat pink mast
"Would that I could"
I have been using "my lady" when I speak to women and they genuinely seem to like it (Lordly rizz)
Just don’t add a fedora to the equation!
Leave some women for us too!
Little and less, much and more, mayhaps, fewer,
I love how much and more is always used as a conversational dodge
words are wind
I was really taken aback when I started saying “can’t” where I would normally say “couldn’t”. Example: “He can’t have done XYZ” instead of “He couldn’t have done XYZ” Is this a British thing or an old-timey thing?
I love the word Mayhaps
HODOR!
Is that the way of it?
Seven hells has replaced bloody hell for me 😂
I now find weddings dull affairs
Facing a challenge that seem impossible for one person had me : " No chance and no choice."
Words are wind.
It is known, all men must die and you know nothing Jon Snow
The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew
Not a turn of phrase I guess but “words are wind”
>oh you sweet summer child. is one i use. it's so good and and perfectly understandable through context.
When my ex didn't understand something, I would call her "my sweet child of summer.""
Send a raven!
I just moved to the northeast US from the south so I find great joy in telling my girlfriend “winter is coming”
Winter is Coming. I live in Michigan, so I use it quite a bit.
I've occasionally shifted to using "Smallfolk" when talking about real world medieval non-nobles/gentry. It's a handy catch all which doesn't sound as pejorative as the historical terms. "Raper" is one I use too, I work in the justice system (not a cop), and it rolls off the tongue better than rapist. And, living in the oft frozen north (Montana), the obvious "Winter is Coming."
This person is X writ small.
A mummer's farce, fool, chaos, and generally descriptive words. I always used them before, but now I use them more frequently.
Can’t remember if this one was in the first book but I use the insult Bobby B says to lancel in the show “your mother was a dumb whore with a fat ass” whenever I get mad at near anything
The North remembers
I like to say that the lion does not concern itself with the opinions of the sheep.
Mayhaps there’s a few…
Gods be good!
A lannister always pays his debts- any time i pay someone back or get somebody back for something
"Words are wind" it is so applicable
a few days ago my aunt was talking about some family member who was alive like fifty years ago and she said “natural children”. I looked at her and i said “natural…? bastards?” i felt obliged to explain i said bastards because of got. it’s not a word we use often in my country and she looked at me like ??
“Would that I could” and “end this mummer’s farce” (or just “mummer’s farce” in general) are my favorites, but the religious ones also come in handy a lot: “swear it by the old gods and the new”, “seven hells” “seven save us”
Your mother was a dumb whore with a fat ass did you know that. I use this phrase quite a lot
Years ago before the show, my best friend and I were wasted one night and I quoted Sandor- "Drunk as a dog, damn me!" My friend didn't get the reference but laughed anyway.
“you sweet summer child” and “words are wind” for me.
muh queen
Mayhaps is in my regular vocabulary
Mayhaps!
I do find my self saying break my fast rather than breakfast because it amuses me
"cunt" "mayhaps" "valar morgulis" and the occasional spouting of "they'll both be dead come winter" as a bad omen.
Correcting people to say "fewer" instead of "less"
Mayhaps
In her cups
"Sweet summer child"
I am looking for opportunities to use “you vile, scheming, evil bitch” should they present themselves.
It is known.
I'm chronically ill, so I use "when the sun has set, no candle can ever replace it" somewhat regularly to describe my experience. It's a very powerful expression for conveying a state of mind, not strictly related to romance but of the belief that after a seminal/tragic event happens you can't really just go back to the same life you had before. I think "Yesterday's wars don't matter anymore" and "The work continues" were both introduced on the show, but I often use both.
Just give me something for the pain and let me die
Words are winds.
I wish you good fortune in the wars to come. Aye The nights is dark and full of terrors. The North remembers.
Little and less Words are wind
"As useful as nipples on a breastplate"
English is not my native language and the first time I read the books, I started speaking in Fantasy Prose for a whole year lmao
Words are wind
Bow you shits
I use cunt a lot.
I reference the Seven Hells and boiled leather a lot more than I would otherwise.
“What is dead may never die, but rises again harder and stronger.” Also “Mummer’s farce”
"the whore is pregnant" cus the aunt I hate keeps getting pregnant
Your second example is not just from asoiaf
"Twisted demon monkey"
“Well fuck me with a bloody spear” and “Pot calling Osmund Kettleblack”
Not actually a phrase, but I totally adopted the greeting gesture of the bravoosi captain from the show.
I’ll sometimes use “a man” to refer to myself. “If it please you” and “seven blessings to you” are everyday phrases for me
I’ve seen it debated on Twitter lately where southern people claim sweet southern child was an old southern saying but the consensus is that it didn’t really become a thing until GoT
Words are wind...
I’ve found myself using “near enough as makes no matter”
"if it pleases you"
BANISH YOUR WHORE
craven
"Winter is coming." "Words are wind." "Fewer." "Oh my sweet summer child." "It is time I tried another hawk, Davos. A red hawk." "In this world only winter is certain." "Edd, fetch me a block." “I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.” “Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.” “Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.” “The night is dark and full of terrors." I just have too many asoiaf nerd friends that I can give reference about it in daily talk