New Racial Slurs

[James de Monet]

Okay, so we lost one racial slur (I'd say "special", as in species-related, but it sounds funny, so we'll stick with "racial").  I can't think of a better way to react than to come up with a whole slew of replacements, so how about:

Elves:
Skinnies
Points
Almondese (mondos)
Dune Hoppers (hoppers)
Fleet footers (fleeties)
Lightfingers
Scale tippers
Kank merchants
Easties
Sun kissers
Pinkies
Sand humpers
Saddlebacks
Head bumpers
Twig dicks
No boobs
Widehats
Short belts
Githkin
Arena paint
Cell fillers
Earring racks
Tentpoles
...

There's no shortage of prejudice to work with here.  What we NEED are more epithets to use on dwarves and half-giants (and humans).

Dwarves:
Rock domes
Barposts
Elbow rests
One ways
Scalpies
Longbeards (ironic)
Kneehighs
Collar bait
Sid miners
...


Half-Giants:
Umbrella stands
Walking shade
Windwalls
Rockhaulers
What-ers (wutters)
Wrong ways
Silt babies
...


Humans:
Nakki sprinters (elven irony)
Teklings
Pitters
Tribeless
Architects (bitter irony, as humans only plan - they make slaves build everything)
Quivers (elven humor, since you fill them with arrows)
Walleyes (generally what tribals would see first of city-bound humans)
Ringlickers
Vrundies
Serpants (people who pant after the serpent, Tek)
Heavy-tenters
Longstakers
Wall stuffing
Rocks-for-tents
...


Generally applicable slurs based on racism:
(As useless as) Pahnese cavalry
Dwarven philosopher
Elven bank guards
Half-giant tunnel scout
(As broken as a) Half-giant's erdlu


Add some more!

[LucildaHunta]

I've used skinny for elves before, it didn't take though. I'd use that again, I thought it was a good in world slur.

Dwarves: Grunters, Shinies, Rockhead or Stonehead
Halflings(if they ever come back): Biters
Half-elves: Half-human (if an elf), mistake, unwanted
Mul: Abortion (probably very dangerous to say to a mul)
Human: Breeder (it's close to breed I know), wall-rats, hairies (for a dwarf), soft-skin, kneelers
Elves (too soon?): Tall-ladies (especially to a male elf), twiggies, screamers, stickmen

[Lizzie]

I've used skinny for elves before, it didn't take though. I'd use that again, I thought it was a good in world slur.

Dwarves: Grunters, Shinies, Rockhead or Stonehead
Halflings(if they ever come back): Biters
Half-elves: Half-human (if an elf), mistake, unwanted
Mul: Abortion (probably very dangerous to say to a mul)
Human: Breeder (it's close to breed I know), wall-rats, hairies (for a dwarf), soft-skin, kneelers
Elves (too soon?): Tall-ladies (especially to a male elf), twiggies, screamers, stickmen

Except in the context of the game, "tall-ladies" would just result in confusion, and no insult. It's a sexist remark to imply that calling a man a lady is to imply that his masculinity is superior to a woman's femininity.

Which is confusing from an OOC perspective since - a male's masculinity SHOULD be superior to HIM than his own femininity, and vice versa. But with all this silly insistence that there be no gender-specific insults, masculinity and femininity become obsolete observations.

Could just concatenate it to "talls." Elves = talls.

[TheGoose]

A lot of the words for humans sound great for tribals or northerners to use against southern Allanaki. I'm definitely going to use 'walleye' as a tribal.

[Cind]

People have used 'skinnies' before, to the point where I feel it is canon. Been a long time since that period, though.

[FantasyWriter]

I really like kank-merchant and ringlickers.
nice job.

[Refugee]

Since "skinnies" is a disparaging nickname used for certain groups of people in real life, we'd probably end up having this same conversation about that eventually.

[James de Monet]

Heh, I like hairies and kneelers.

[The Lonely Hunter]

I'm pretty content with the current crop that have been around for decades.

Elves: longneck, skinny
Dwarf: stump
half-elf: breed

Pretty simple.

[Delirium]

I'm pretty content with the current crop that have been around for decades.

Elves: longneck, skinny
Dwarf: stump
half-elf: breed

Pretty simple.

You forgot sharpear for elves. But yes. Me too.

[Kryos]

A little on, a little off topic.  I've always believed behaviors such as this should develop organically out of the player base in game, based on in game experiences.  Coming down from out of game collaboration or mandate just never has quite the pizzazz that genuine experience creates.  Goes for jargon and pejoratives in the game as much as the tides of who is playing what race, what guild, etc.  While I respect the creative effort, attempting to corral people into conditions almost never pans out as excellently as letting things run as they may.

[Lizzie]

A little on, a little off topic.  I've always believed behaviors such as this should develop organically out of the player base in game, based on in game experiences.  Coming down from out of game collaboration or mandate just never has quite the pizzazz that genuine experience creates.  Goes for jargon and pejoratives in the game as much as the tides of who is playing what race, what guild, etc.  While I respect the creative effort, attempting to corral people into conditions almost never pans out as excellently as letting things run as they may.

Agree 100% with this sentiment. The more contrived it is, the more contrived it feels.

[James de Monet]

I would tend to agree, except that IC has had two decades, and only produced four words that stuck, one of which was just excised.

It's probably time for Plan B.

[Cind]

Let's use collar bait! I like that.

For troublemakers and stuff.

[sleepyhead]

I'm just going to go back to using "skinnies" for elves; it was a lot more common when I started playing, and I think it was a pretty good slur. As long as people stop advocating to get random IG racial epithets banned just to make a point about hypocrisy or inconsistency or slippery slopes or whatever, it'll do just fine.

[LucildaHunta]

I took this thread as a way of saying "yes we can" come up with other things and it's not the end of the world that, that one is gone.

I think it's nice to have a little list of words to use agreed and disagreed upon by the players.

[Malken]

I'm sticking with "squarehead" for those damn northerners with a strange accent.

[Cind]

Bowers. (southies)

[650Booger]

Longnecks

(also a veiled beer reference)

[Riev]

Longnecks

(also a veiled beer reference)

Etymologically speaking, this is where "necker" came from in the first place. The belief that elves had longer necks so they were "longnecks" or just "necks". Which turned into "Necker".

[Lizzie]

Longnecks

(also a veiled beer reference)

Etymologically speaking, this is where "necker" came from in the first place. The belief that elves had longer necks so they were "longnecks" or just "necks". Which turned into "Necker".

Yup. From that point on it wasn't a stretch for a few to add their own real-world spin on the word, resulting on our current situation.

[chrisdcoulombe]

Githkin is super offensive. 

[Lizzie]

Githkin is super offensive.

Well unless you're a Red Fang. Then, it's just a fact

[650Booger]

Longnecks

(also a veiled beer reference)

Etymologically speaking, this is where "necker" came from in the first place. The belief that elves had longer necks so they were "longnecks" or just "necks". Which turned into "Necker".

ah, nice, well I'm bringing it back!

[TheGoose]

Githkin is super offensive.

Well unless you're a Red Fang. Then, it's just a fact

Questions.