Compound pejoratives on Reddit – from buttface to wankpuffin
By colin_morris
Category: Technology › Platforms
Curious how Reddit coins insults? I built a 4,800 cell compound pejorative dataset from about 70 prefixes and 70 suffixes, scraping Reddit comments from 2006 to 2020. I map frequency and Zipf patterns, spotlight dumbass at 3.6M and hapaxes like pukebird, and measure affix flexibility with a log sum.
Rolly's Take
For the wordsmith who revels in the playful chaos of language, where creativity meets the absurd. They delight in the nuances of insult, finding joy in the cleverness of compound pejoratives that dance on the edge of humor and offense. This blog is an invitation to explore the delightful intricacies of linguistic invention, where every term is a badge of wit waiting to be unleashed.