Thread by @fr_brennan

#Esperanto words for "furry" lol 🧵

ret´best´ig´ul´o
retbestigulo
a person who becomes an animal on the internet

This word has many benefits. A furry convention is a:

retbestigul´ar´eg´o
retbestigularego
"a big group of people who become animals online"

https://twitter.com/fr_brennan/status/1537978522081234950

One benefit is non-exclusion of scalies

Another benefit is easy relationship to the word:

bestigulo — otherkin / therian
"becomes-an-animal person"

A popufur is a

retbestigul´estr´isto
"a person for whom being a leader of furries is a job"

The furry fandom is the "ĉiu´retbestigularo" ("all the online animal people"), while the concept of furry is "retbestigeco" ("state of becoming an animal online").

If you need to differentiate scalies and furries use:

"ret´reptilia´igulo" — "specifically online animal people that are reptiles"
"ret´mamula´igulo" — "specifically online animal people that are mammals"

The best thing about this word derivation is each species is a word.

"retlupigulo" — online becomes-wolf person (lup´)
"retkatigulo" — " " cat " (kat´)

And mine:
"retlavursigulo" — " " raccoon " (lavurs´)
"retkunikligulo" — " " rabbit " (kunikl´)

NB: " = ditto

I have one more linguistic trick.

By removing the "-ig-" (become) suffix you can make words referring to the characters and not the people who are them in a sense.

So a "retlavursulo" is a word for "an online raccoon character", while "retlavursigulo" "a person that becomes a raccoon character online".

And "retbestulo" is the generic for "furry character".

I suggest using "kvazaŭbestulo" not as I originally suggested, but as a group noun including furries, otherkin, therians, multiple systems where one is a furry, etc.