[HN Gopher] Compound pejoratives on Reddit
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Compound pejoratives on Reddit
Author : bryanrasmussen
Score : 121 points
Date : 2022-06-29 18:36 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| webkike wrote:
| I guess my unpopular opinion is that most of these sound pretty
| dumb, I personally prefer the ones like "shitdick"
| pad_thai wrote:
| I haven't heard that term used since Richard Cheese sang a
| parody song with that title on the Opie & Anthony show over 15
| years ago. Not linking it here since the song is extremely
| offensive but YouTube is your friend.
| MonkeyMalarky wrote:
| Methinks the point is for them to sound as dumb as possible.
| throwaway821909 wrote:
| They annoy me slightly, I think the reason is people clearly
| put effort into coming up with "hilarious" combinations and
| then try to pass them off as a spontaneous product of their
| strong feelings. The real internal response was probably a
| boring combination of the same old words and maybe some now
| banned ones from school you can't fully shake.
|
| It's like the tumblr trend of suddenly switching to caps
| partway through a word, the verbal equivalent works but I know
| you're proofreading your posts.
| googlryas wrote:
| Just a headsup, but shitdick may come off as homophobic
| depending on who you release your shitgibbon on
| webkike wrote:
| Thanks for the info, I had no idea
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| why are there so many puffins anyway, you would think there might
| be an ostrich or two, or maybe a swan, wankswan - the real ugly
| duckling.
| dmje wrote:
| Fuckwaffle. Actual tears. I may have to use The Matrix of
| Pejoration on a daily basis.
| googlryas wrote:
| Were you not around during the great fuckwaffling of '06?
|
| https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=F...
| colordrops wrote:
| I'm dying from Twatnozzle
| alex_young wrote:
| We really should bring back asshead.
|
| It's even Shakespearean:
| http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...
|
| Relation to the more modern asshat: https://www.merriam-
| webster.com/words-at-play/some-notes-on-...
| nullc wrote:
| Careful with using these terms on reddit as reddit is
| increasingly moving to machine learning based distribution of
| bans and post removals, use of any obscure words (particularly
| pejoratives) is more likely to get a ban from our humorless
| machine overlords.
|
| (meanwhile, hacked nudes and posts of judges home addresses with
| 'violence isn't the answer. it's the question and the answer is
| yes' "doesn't violate Reddit's Content Policy")
| ohCh6zos wrote:
| I have in the past been told that overt calls for racial
| genocide do not violate Reddit's content policy.
|
| It is taking time but I'm trying to find replacements for
| reddit that either don't pretend to be moderated or are anti-
| crimes against humanity in their moderation.
| jefc1111 wrote:
| I'm surprised and a little disappointed that neither 'munch' nor
| 'muncher' feature anywhere.
|
| Also 'dipboy' is a weird.one. maybe a crypto thing..?
| anm89 wrote:
| I really really like the most unused insults on that chart.
| Scumwit. Trumpnozzle, Wankclown
| robbrown451 wrote:
| No app to randomly generate them?
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| No dicksmack, lame.
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| that would be one heck of a dicksmack if you ended up lame
| afterwards.
| chaosfox wrote:
| that heatmap is just asking to be clustered
| https://imgur.com/a/lxn4ApA
| walrus01 wrote:
| If you're really good friends with a somewhat crude Australian,
| he might call you a _cunt_. It 's a term of endearment.
|
| But _cunt_ might also be used as a serious insult.
|
| Entirely depends on context.
|
| There's also a creative arabic language insult, or variation on
| it, that can be translated as "my dick in your religion" or "a
| thousand dicks in your religion"
| tl_donson wrote:
| depending on the tone, "mate" can be way more aggressive than
| "cunt".
| cs137 wrote:
| Eastern Europeans have some of the best insults, too. Hungarian
| has "A horse's dick in your ass." (Lofasz a seggedbe.)
|
| I believe it is the Serbs who use "May the Pope fuck your 18th-
| great-grandmother." (How the Pope shall choose which one of the
| insultee's 524,288 candidate ancestors, that's not clear.)
|
| The famous "Go fuck yourself" directed at the Russian warship
| by the Ukrainians translates, literally, even better: idi
| nakhui (idi nahui) = "go to dick".
| walrus01 wrote:
| there's a Farsi language insult that only women use towards
| another woman, translates as _flat cunt_
|
| the flat part is very important and makes it even more
| aggressive.
|
| literally, kos chapat
|
| the chapat is the same farsi original root word as you'd find
| in urdu and hindi for a chapati (the flat bread) or anything
| else that is flat.
| sedatk wrote:
| Surprisingly, fuckfuck and shitshit seem relatively common. Could
| it be a parsing error?
| cs137 wrote:
| Fuckfuck is a brainfuck-inspired esolang.
|
| I don't know what shitshit is, although Y Combinator probably
| funded it if the founders were young enough and seemed to know
| how to talk to rich people.
| panopticon wrote:
| Looks to be a common typo when spamming the words. E.g., "Shit
| shit shitshit shit shit". I wouldn't be surprised if that's the
| source of many of those.
| sedatk wrote:
| Most likely, yes. Still I'd expect those to be filtered out
| with a heuristic.
| voisin wrote:
| I like that Trump is a pejorative.
| hunterb123 wrote:
| It's not specifically, the compounds are libtard / trumptard.
| fatboy wrote:
| My personal favourite is wankbreath. It doesn't even make sense,
| but the first time you hear it you can't help but consider what
| it could mean.
| tomcam wrote:
| I like where you're going with this but I'll have to overrule.
| After careful analysis I decided wankpuffin is the clear
| winner.
| ohCh6zos wrote:
| Am I reading the chart correctly that 'dickpuffin' appears
| exactly once in the coda?
| cdelsolar wrote:
| yeah this is too good to be a hapax logomenon
| amilios wrote:
| actually sorry to be pedantic but it's legomenon not
| logomenon, it's a participle of the verb lego, "to say", not
| logos (reason), which I'm assuming explains the mistake.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Thanks for that phrase.
| ohCh6zos wrote:
| It's up to dickpuffins like me to make sure it isn't a hapax
| logomenon.
| felixfurtak wrote:
| Disappointed cockwomble isn't in there. It's my go-to.
| _jal wrote:
| My personal favorite, 'shitweasel', is completely absent.
| bsimpson wrote:
| If you click through a few links, you get to "shitgibbon" - the
| word for this class of insults.
|
| https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shitgibbon
| mgdlbp wrote:
| https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_shitgibbons
|
| [^] --> Category:Shitgibbons_by_language
|
| [v] --> Category:German_shitgibbons
|
| [v] --> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arschgeige
|
| "assviolin"
| jefurii wrote:
| Trumpet seems to be the only musical instrument that's used
| as a pejorative. Why not "assclarinet" or "drumtwat"? Is it
| because the trumpet kinda sounds like a fart [full
| disclosure: trumpet player], and if so why not trombone or
| tuba, which sound much more like farts to my ear. "Ass-tuba".
|
| On a related note, there was a short-lived punk band in the
| 1980s called the Butt Trumpets.
| skykooler wrote:
| My guess is its abundance of plosive consonants as compared
| to most other instrument names.
| icameron wrote:
| Butt Trumpet was also the name of a plugin for back orifice
| windows trojan from the late 90's... a very memorable name,
| and custom icon.
| jefurii wrote:
| Maybe related to Trumpet Winsock?
| walrus01 wrote:
| _assclown_
| RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
| The article mentions but does further explore the suffix "tard".
| In addition to the mentioned "Trumptard" there is also "libtard".
| cs137 wrote:
| Thanks to this, I'm going spend literally an hour trying to
| figure out the rarest of these I've actually used. I'll be
| shocked if I don't score at least one single-digit.
|
| I have a couple guesses as to what it would be, but don't want to
| dox myself, because they're usages that are still in the early
| stages of catching on.
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| schindlabua wrote:
| I read a comment the other day that referred to oversized
| american SUVs as _wankpanzers_. Love it.
| jefurii wrote:
| Or _wankwagons_.
| cs137 wrote:
| Wankbasket is pretty solid. It has internal vowel harmony.
| selectodude wrote:
| It's not uniquely American. In Germany, they're referred to as
| hausfrauenpanzers, or house wife panzers.
| googlryas wrote:
| I feel like wankerpanzer sounds a little bit better ...
| wankpanzer makes me think of a special tank you enter to jerk
| off.
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