[Corpora-List] Categories of insults

[Mike Maxwell]

On 4/14/2014 4:01 AM, Alexander Osherenko wrote:
> ...
> If you are looking for insult words, you can take these taboo words or you can
> collect words with high negative meaning from different corpora of affective
> words, for example, Whissell's Dictionary of Affective Language. Such affective
> words are simultaneously insult words.

I don't think anyone has mentioned yet insults that use what would otherwise be 
non-insult words, but where the entire cultural context implies something insulting:
    three fries short of a happy meal
    his elevator doesn't get to the top floor
    the light's on, but no one's home
    not the brightest bulb on the tree
    not the sharpest knife in the drawer
There are a more examples here:
    http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+few+fries+short+of+a+Happy+Meal
    http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=26589
    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090301101956AAcWXQI
-- 
	Mike Maxwell
	maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
	"My definition of an interesting universe is
	one that has the capacity to study itself."
         --Stephen Eastmond

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