Online Gaming Morphology Map
A note before you read on: this entry intends to catalogue the insult vocabulary of competitive online gaming—and primarily that of League of Legends, where I’ve received insults with unparalleled levels of both creativity and malice. These include slurs, ableist and sexual epithets, and language explicitly meant to degrade and offend. Of course, I do not condone this language but merely present it as data. To those who have never played an online competitive game, the list below will likely read as both offensive and unparseable. And for everyone else, worry not—I’ve only included the usual Tuesday-morning fare. Even so, consider yourself WARNED!
Augmentative prefixes
- astro-
- turbo-
- giga-
- mega-
- ultra-
- hard-
Pejorative prefixes
- piss-
- shit-
- trash-
- cancer-
Verbal stems
- fuck
- int
- clap
- gap
- gape
- mog
- stomp
- smurf
- diff
- [deep]fry
- report
- grief
- carry
- throw
- feed
Attributive nouns
- [e]lo(w)
- [re]tard
- [trash]can
- [hard]stuck
- [rank]
- [shit]stain
- homeless
- clown/jester
- bot/npc
Locative nouns
- hell
- jail
- [hardstuck/forever] [low elo]
- depths
Emphatic determiners
- certified
- absolute
- complete
- total
- actual
- genuine
- straight-up
Terminal nouns
- pedophile (“pdf file”)
- terrorist
- loser
- reject
- orphan
- retard
Example usage
- just turbomogged this ultra hardstuck inting shitstain pdf file
- im gigagapping this absolute cancerlow turbothrowing reject