[ERF] Humanity: Nomenclature

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It is hard to put it into perspective as to just how many mean things have come into Set's lexicon to describe mankind. An entire dictionary could be filled up with just what the redworlders alone have come up with - and that's all in their own language. As the most numerous and divisive race on Set, humanity's earned plenty of accolades. For the sake of brevity in this article, only the most common will be described here. The human mind can only be filled with so much hate at one time.

Redworlders call humans by a few endearing nicknames in polite company. "Desagam", or "pinkies", touches on the stronger hues in human skin compared to redworlders - even if the individual in question is more brown than pink. "Sabari'sem", usually shortened to "sabari" - "hard necks" and "necks" respectively - is completely unexplained. "Duugaim", which has absolutely no translation, is occasionally applied as a term of respect to men. "Donaid" is about the same for women - and causes no end of confusion when it's written in the Latin alphabet.

Less flattering titles can be the summation of a town's entire vocabulary. "Ayaba'lees", or "spider hands", focuses on the human advantage in digits. "Bagas" works out to "imps", focusing in the gap in height. "Xaros" translates loosely to "inferior replica", or "ersatz", which takes in the two species' similarities. The English word "kludge", more commonly half-translated into "kaleedge", means about the same. "Sharabos" keeps up the trend as "mutants".

Sorassan call humans mostly by names based on their height, feeble muscles, and disinclination towards surviving long falls. "Niss'aessek" for "tiny feet" is the most popular. Boglanders stick with "wzunco" and "ezkunnidiane". The first means "turnabout rocky traitor from the far lands". The second has absolutely no definition or translation whatsoever - a word of nothing but hate, and occasional gelatinization. Zaschia prefer a swatting motion with a few select crunching noises; "I don't like your bones" is what most claim it means. Unionites don't have words, per se, but are instead packed with a handful of buzzing noises that approximate to slurs. Most are at a sound frequency that sets hair on edge.

On the human side, slurs for everyone else are too many, too incisive. To list all potential titles - disparaging or otherwise - for boglanders alone would be enough to consume the entire bandwidth of Unity Station several times over. For redworlder women, it would take the sum of Set's global computer processing power. Limited to English, to specific ethnic groups of Cult of Meat sorassan, and penned exclusively by Loonies, several thesauri could be written. In short, the only limit is that of human imagination - and it isn't running out any time soon.