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Interesting, I thought a lot of male words are related to games as well. aileron/azimuth/strafe: flight games bushido/yakuza/katana: martial arts or Japane

• wizzwizz4 5y ago
• pbhjpbhj 5y ago
  Aileron, 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.