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[Frumple]

Postmodern nu-swarth, maybe?

[Dutchling]

I don't even tan. This is because I'm like a half-shade darker of opalescent white, or WHAT?

Heh. Amateur.

[Descan]

It could well be they have no idea what swarthy means.

I mean I thought it meant like, built like a bull? Bulky? Not tanned.

So..

Yeah.

[Frumple]

Basically it means you look like a deckhand on an old-time ship. Tanned, muscled, kinda' shady in character, etc. Mostly suggests dark skin, though, yeah. Not necessarily black, but possibly some indeterminate descent going on there somewhere sure.

[TD1]

Swarthy doesn't have any meaning related to build, at least according to Th4DwArfY1 (I almost posted my real name there by accident 0_o) brand definitions! [Citation needed]

[Bauglir]

Most likely, somebody's vision experienced a blackness underflow error?

[Tiruin]

It'll take a loooooooooong time to make a natural tan if you..err, aren't naturally tanned .__.

...

It could well be they have no idea what swarthy means.

I mean I thought it meant like, built like a bull? Bulky? Not tanned.

So..

Yeah.

And here I thought swarthy == tanned.
I initially attributed swarthy to some kind of pirate-y characteristic. Dohoho, swarthiness.

* Tiruin flips through her dictionary and thesaurus.

RAGE: I CAN'T FIND THAT ONE WORD THAT MAKES THE SENTENCE FEEL RIGHT D:<
ARHGHGHHHGHH SYNONYMS!
Edit: O hey it was capricious.
:I ^{Erratic. Hmph.}

[Frumple]

To be fair to your initial association, not only are many stereotypical pirates swarthy, they are almost universally described as such in literature.* It's hard to find a more stock description than "swarthy pirate".

*Insofar as I'm aware, anyway.

[Helgoland]

Heh, swarty sounds like Schwarte, as in Schweineschwarte - pork rind. Maybe they thought you looked delicious~

[Descan]

Nonon, I meant "This is what *I* thought swarthy means."

I'm not saying that it actually does mean bulky Tiruin, why would you think that given the context? :I I'm saying "I was wrong so maybe they were wrong too?"

[Vector]

Heh, swarty sounds like Schwarte, as in Schweineschwarte - pork rind. Maybe they thought you looked delicious~

It also sounds like "schwarz," ennit?

[Yoink]

Whatever it means, swarthy is a cool-sounding word. I always thought it meant moderately dark skinned, but I don't have a dictionary on hand to check.
It seems quite likely that the person in question thought it meant something different.

[nenjin]

Heh, swarty sounds like Schwarte, as in Schweineschwarte - pork rind. Maybe they thought you looked delicious~

It also sounds like "schwarz," ennit?

It's not inconceivable they share the same etymological root, especially given how and to whom the term referred.

[Vector]

Whatever it means, swarthy is a cool-sounding word. I always thought it meant moderately dark skinned, but I don't have a dictionary on hand to check.
It seems quite likely that the person in question thought it meant something different.

Swarthy includes Italian and Southern French, so... you know, the groups that used to be not considered white.

[Dutchling]

Whatever it means, swarthy is a cool-sounding word. I always thought it meant moderately dark skinned, but I don't have a dictionary on hand to check.
It seems quite likely that the person in question thought it meant something different.

Swarthy includes Italian and Southern French, so... you know, the groups that used to be not considered white.

When were those groups not considered white?