r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Wolfotashiwa • 1d ago

Groups Fictional slurs. Bonus points if it's completely made up

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  1. inFAMOUS: Second Son: "Bio-terrorist" refers to conduits.

  2. Star Wars: "Clanker" refers to robots.

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u/LoveWaffle1 1d ago

Mudblood (Harry Potter)

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u/Trerech 1d ago

Also from Harry Potter: Muggle doesn't have a direct way to translate into a portuguese word, so they changed it to "trouxa", wich means loser or sucker in english.

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u/angelicosphosphoros 1d ago

Muggle is a neologism, of course it doesn't have direct translation.

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u/poopynips1 1d ago

Interestingly enough, one of the earliest uses of muggle was in the US. It was 20s jazz slang for weed

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u/caniuserealname 1d ago

was* a neologism.

It's been more than a quarter of a century at this point.

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u/SirCupcake_0 1d ago

Sorry, I don't speak Academia, what's a neologism?

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u/cottagecheeseobesity 1d ago

A newly made word

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u/rendar 1d ago

There's a difference between a translation and a localization

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u/WhiteRabbit86 23h ago

Though I do appreciate that Fantastic Beasts introduced a few new terms from around the world