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dontpanic · 3208 days ago · link · · parent · post: The secret "anti-languages" you're not supposed to know
This is more applicable than ever online. If we examine (and I'm sorry for this) chan-speak, it is designed not only to confuse outsiders but to repulse them as well. The repeated use of homophobic and racist slurs seems partly there to put off the people called "normies" in their language, as well as simply being an in-joke. This might be an added layer of secrecy, thus causing people not in the know to dismiss them all as foul-mouthed bigots (which it is of course entirely possible that they are).