meaning and function of だの


I tried to translate the sentence:

> 世間では俺みたいな奴の事を引き篭もりだのネトゲ廃人 **だの** と呼んでいるらしいが

My try:

> In this world, I am called a game junkie, which is to say “hikikomori” for
> such people like me

Is the だの similar to という ?

is there a relation between の事を (earlier in the sentence) and だの ?




I think you are parsing this sentence incorrectly. The basic structure is:

> AをBと呼んでいる  
>  call A (as) B

where A = 世間では俺みたいな奴の事 and B = 引き篭もり **だの** ネトゲ廃人 **だの**.

For the meaning of だの (note that there are two of them but you only
highlighted one as causing you problems) see [this
post](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/25554/difference-
between-%E3%81%A0%E3%81%AE-and-%E3%81%AA%E3%81%A9-%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8B).

Overall translation:

> Society calls people like me things like shut-ins and game junkies.

I'm using your translation of game junkie because I honestly have no idea how
to translate ネトゲ廃人.




I think you are parsing this sentence incorrectly. The basic structure is:

> AをBと呼んでいる  
>  call A (as) B

where A = 世間では俺みたいな奴の事 and B = 引き篭もり **だの** ネトゲ廃人 **だの**.

For the meaning of だの (note that there are two of them but you only
highlighted one as causing you problems) see [this
post](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/25554/difference-
between-%E3%81%A0%E3%81%AE-and-%E3%81%AA%E3%81%A9-%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8B).

Overall translation:

> Society calls people like me things like shut-ins and game junkies.

I'm using your translation of game junkie because I honestly have no idea how
to translate ネトゲ廃人.

