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Linguistically interesting how the word "fag" has been turned into a part of speech, in chan cultures, that actually has no alternatives. In particular, words of the versatile form "[x]fagging" which essentially mean "to do [x] to a socially unacceptable extent" (cont)
An example being "namefagging"/"tripfagging" which means "to post with a name when you could be posting anonymously". There would be no other simple way to create this term. "Naming" would obviously have completely different meaning (cont)
Another use is as in infix expletive in nouns to mean "[noun], derogatorily" as seen with "redditfag", "twitterfag", etc. One can say "redditor" and mean simply "a person who uses reddit" but "redditfag" explicitly means "a person who uses reddit, and I don't like those" (cont)
Please forgive the use of the word in this thread if you take offense to it. I mean only to discuss its linguistic significance, and it would have been very hard to discuss the linguistic ideas while censoring it.
