Barktooth

Er... I studied it in high school and... that was about it? In terms of actual studying that is.
You could say I'm sort of studying it right now, but not really. As I've taken on a few Quality Checking jobs for VNs, I've been endeavouring to expand my knowledge of English grammar, mostly by reading up on websites on the topic on occasion.
Let's say 2010 was when I actually started learning English. By watching English youtubers, embarrassingly enough.
Began reading text heavy English games the same year, like To the Moon and Ace Attorney. Visual Novels probably started around 2012-ish...?
From there I just moved on into manga and anime.
I've progressively gotten better at the language, to which I can easily attest simply by checking my earlier posts on this forum (2014), as they contain many mistakes. Though they were pompous and brilliantly sarcastic, something which has regrettably been lost to a depressingly major extent.
The words come from various sources. To name them, kecks and lush come from a game name Hector: Badge of Carnage (this game is chock-full of British slang, which will be reflected in the next entry); doddle, coltish, compositing, and disaffected come from youtube videos (an anime analysis and a let's play); dingy, lunkhead, and rump come from Horizon: Zero Dawn; Only sanguine comes from a VN, Koiken Otome. It actually has a wider vocabulary than I'd expect, and this is definitely not the first word I've learnt from it.
Agreed with your last statement especially.

I'm curious, do you actually live in Portugal? Your vocabulary is rather impressive, seeing as I only (vaguely) knew four of the words on your list. Not residing in an English-speaking country would make your knowledge even more remarkable.
In any case, I wish you luck in this endeavor. I've been wanting to expand my vocabulary as well, but learning Japanese takes precedence at the moment... Although, I have to say I already learned several English terms through that alone. It would appear the Japanese have several words in (I would assume) frequent use that don't have a commonly encountered English counterpart, and are therefore most accurately translated using an obscure word.

It would be l*me if Sana used them. You must be b*ind if you didn't see that coming.
 
Sure, some of them will feel limited, but some won't. It depends on the person. Rin in Katawa Shoujo is a good example, she doesn't think not having arms is a disadvantage to her at all.
Even if one avoids these words around everyone else, they would still be acting this way for the sake of the disabled, so I think it may offend certain people regardless. Or maybe not, at this point I don't know anymore.
In either case, while I can't speak for anyone else, to me the usage of the words you listed plays a big role in whether they are perceived as "ableist" or not. If I call someone crazy, I'm simply trying to convey that they are acting in an irrational and nonsensical fashion, not that they are mentally disabled, or that their behavior stems from having a mental illness. The expression might have originated from someone likening a person acting nonsensically to the behavior of mentally disabled individuals, but the way it is used now, I don't believe such a link exists anymore.
In short, if you are mentally disabled but aren't going berserk on anyone, I won't call you crazy. However, if you're mentally healthy yet having a fit, I might just do so.

It would be l*me if Sana used them. You must be b*ind if you didn't see that coming.
 
Sure, some of them will feel limited, but some won't. It depends on the person. Rin in Katawa Shoujo is a good example, she doesn't think not having arms is a disadvantage to her at all.
Even if one avoids these words around everyone else, they would still be acting this way for the sake of the disabled, so I think it may offend certain people regardless. Or maybe not, at this point I don't know anymore.
In either case, while I can't speak for anyone else, to me the usage of the words you listed plays a big role in whether they are perceived as "ableist" or not. If I call someone crazy, I'm simply trying to convey that they are acting in an irrational and nonsensical fashion, not that they are mentally disabled, or that their behavior stems from having a mental illness. The expression might have originated from someone likening a person acting nonsensically to the behavior of mentally disabled individuals, but the way it is used now, I don't believe such a link exists anymore.
In short, if you are mentally disabled but aren't going berserk on anyone, I won't call you crazy. However, if you're mentally healthy yet having a fit, I might just do so.

Certain things are glamourized in this world. Saying we should include fat characters in our generally idealized stories is basically saying we as a society should shift the set of things we glamorize so that it makes a minority feel better.
Atm, what we as a society glamorize is mostly depends on what the masses like, and what companies try to propagate to forward their brands and ventures.
IMO, ideally, you should train people to recognize these societal glorifications for what they are, which is just things to be enjoyed, not reflections of the truth. You shouldn't advocate for a different set of glorifications in order to lull fat people to thinking the reality is some how kinder for it. The reality is what it is.
I think there was a line of criticism against LN's for glorifying being living an otaku lifestyle. If there was a parallel universe where such otaku-glorifiying LN's didn't exist (that was like 15 years ago), that would be fine, too. I'm sure there were and are a lot of otaku who felt pressure (both external, from people's opinions, and internal, from lack of validation) from the type of lifestyle they chose/fell into.
The main issue with fat people is not the difference of preference (that should very much be allowed), but existing prejudice. Fat people shouldn't be bullied in school, or insulted anywhere. But those are difficult challenges that revolve around human nature. If your fat and some asshole insults you based on that, that's because they are an asshole, and not particularly because you are fat. Or they have a prejudice. The prejudice, and more importantly, how people act on that prejudice, is the more productive and realistic issue to tackle.
 

You're welcome. (Still working on the dollarpound.)