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>The male ones are tech/games/science A lot of the left half was words I only vaguely knew, and that's because I've seen most of them used in games before. A g
by Talanes 5y ago
>The male ones are tech/games/science
A lot of the left half was words I only vaguely knew, and that's because I've seen most of them used in games before. A good chunk just in Final Fantasy XIV alone, but the fabrics and clothing items tend to pop up a fair bit in the sort of item-intensive games that need to reach for words to make this particular shoe sound better.
- astrange 5y agoI know espadrille from… the clothing shop in an anime golf game.
- yongjik 5y agoInteresting, I thought a lot of male words are related to games as well. aileron/azimuth/strafe: flight games bushido/yakuza/katana: martial arts or Japanese games howitzer: strategy games checksum: downloading games degauss/teraflop: stuff for playing games shemale: ...okay maybe not this one...
- wizzwizz4 5y ago
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoAileron, strafe (different meaning), howitzer - would all have come to me from reading WW2 stories or watching black and white movies in the 80s. Azimuth, space. Degauss, TVs Checksum I think probably from Linux installs (around the millennium). Teraflop, supercomputers. Shemale ... hmmm, never saw it, but The Crying Game (TV show) I think would be the source for me. Conclusion, they're not gaming words you're just a gamer?
- Talanes 5y ago> Conclusion, they're not gaming words you're just a gamer? The claim wasn't "originated from video-games" it was "related to games." More broadly, aside from the direct technology terms, most of those are the sort of words that you only encounter in media. Videogames are a medium that tends to stretch for more words to describe things (as do novels, compared to snappier media like film/music/tv), so it's a very likely point of first exposure for those of us young enough to have grown up with them.