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Six categories. Each one describes a different function that invented language can serve.
Expletive
Pure emotional discharge. The expletive exists to carry force, not meaning — and the best fictional ones land immediately, before a reader even knows what they signify.
85 entries
Insult
Targeted and personal. Fictional insults reveal social hierarchies: who can be degraded, in what terms, and what the choice of words says about the insulter as much as the target.
62 entries
Euphemism
The polite route around something impolite. Euphemisms are often the most culturally revealing words in a fiction — they show what a society acknowledges but can't bring itself to say directly.
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Curse
Invocations with intent. Curses carry structure and weight, and usually a mythology behind them. The fictional curse tells you what a world fears.
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Oath
The solemn register. Oaths are what characters swear by, which tells you what they hold sacred. A fiction's oaths are a shortcut to its cosmology.
26 entries
Slang
The informal layer — words that signal in-group membership and generational identity. Slang ages the fastest and dates a work most precisely.
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