This is a terrible thing to laugh at, but when I saw this I started sremoveding. Just the idea of this lawyer being like :
"Let me be straight up with you, my client's a fucking idiot. Like, a real smooth brain. I gotta be honest, there's not a whole lot going on in there. The most thought I've ever seen him give something is when he picked his nose and ate it. He was like a fucking booger sommelier."
Is totally hilarious to me. I can't believe this shit is actually happening in real life though. Good God.
"My client, you know, when it comes to brightness, he's about a three-watt. I tell ya, he's got about two brain cells and they ain't like talkin' to each other. But eh, come on, he's a good guy, you know?"
Have we as a society collectively decided it's just all bad yet? Whether it's describing a stingy person or talking about someone who habitually nags you, we need to just burn it all down.
Etymological discussions and all that really do nothing more than give racists more dogwhistles to blow.
I learned how to write from copying hundred year old papers. I didn’t know Americans spell grey with an A until I was like 10, and I live in fucking Texas lol. Consequently, I also learned sn*gger before snicker.
That's a good thing, because it means you learned to read and write through reading and writing. (Though nowadays 100 year old texts aren't that old anymore -- Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in 1925). Since we are an increasingly aural society a lot of people learn to write through speaking, which isn't bad but is different and it does separate them from other forms of written communication.
I guess what I'd say is that it's worth examining when and how you'd use words such as a synonym for a stingy person or the nominalized form of someone who nags. Would you say them out loud without reservations in front of anyone? a random BIPOC? maybe just a specific social group? Likewise, would you use it in writing intended for anyone? An audience of BIPOCs? Maybe just on discussion boards? I think it's worth considering the way that those words shape what you are saying and how you'd modulate their usage or not.
No I definitely wouldn’t say sn*ggering in front of people. I remember I said it once in front of some of my white friends and even they were weirded out because they didn’t know it was a real word. This reminds me of that one college humor bit where they made a song exclusively of words that sound racist but aren’t.
There's no need to do anything ever. I've found the potential benefit of saying laughing a little harder than chortling but not quite snickering is severely outweighed by the cost of people thinking I said a slur. It's also not cool to use a word because it sounds like a slur just so no one can technically stop you. That's just an expression of privilege. Everyone is free to do as they like in regards to the word, or any word, I am just suggesting to drop it.
No. I'm not trying to get on any moral high-horse, I have definitely done worse things than use a word that sounds like a slur. I'm just saying there really isn't a good reason to use it because it basically means the same thing as snickering but sounds a lot like a slur.
There's a country that's one letter off from the N word and Juggalos like drinking soft drinks that are a couple letters off from a gay slur. You're a caricature of what people think cancel culture is if you're advocating cancelling words because they sound like bad words.
There is, in fact, a need to do many things often. You, for instance found the need to baselessly suggest that I'm a privileged edgelord because I disagreed with your take
I never suggested you were using the word in this way. I stated that of the two uses, one was not worth it and the other is intentionally mean-spirited. Have you ever met someone who emphasized a word (Nippy, Kite, Cook, Artist, for example) to hint at a slur, but be just outside reproach? That is them just flexing their position of privilege against someone. I'm not suggesting we drop all words that sound like slurs, as context and individual usually show that isn't what they are intended for. However, in this case, the word does not really sound different enough or find enough usage to justify it.
This is a terrible thing to laugh at, but when I saw this I started sremoveding. Just the idea of this lawyer being like :
"Let me be straight up with you, my client's a fucking idiot. Like, a real smooth brain. I gotta be honest, there's not a whole lot going on in there. The most thought I've ever seen him give something is when he picked his nose and ate it. He was like a fucking booger sommelier."
Is totally hilarious to me. I can't believe this shit is actually happening in real life though. Good God.
Imagining the lawyer as Rodney Dangerfield:
"My client, you know, when it comes to brightness, he's about a three-watt. I tell ya, he's got about two brain cells and they ain't like talkin' to each other. But eh, come on, he's a good guy, you know?"
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Have we as a society collectively decided it's just all bad yet? Whether it's describing a stingy person or talking about someone who habitually nags you, we need to just burn it all down.
Etymological discussions and all that really do nothing more than give racists more dogwhistles to blow.
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depends where you are, in the UK we'd always say the other way
I learned how to write from copying hundred year old papers. I didn’t know Americans spell grey with an A until I was like 10, and I live in fucking Texas lol. Consequently, I also learned sn*gger before snicker.
That's a good thing, because it means you learned to read and write through reading and writing. (Though nowadays 100 year old texts aren't that old anymore -- Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in 1925). Since we are an increasingly aural society a lot of people learn to write through speaking, which isn't bad but is different and it does separate them from other forms of written communication.
I guess what I'd say is that it's worth examining when and how you'd use words such as a synonym for a stingy person or the nominalized form of someone who nags. Would you say them out loud without reservations in front of anyone? a random BIPOC? maybe just a specific social group? Likewise, would you use it in writing intended for anyone? An audience of BIPOCs? Maybe just on discussion boards? I think it's worth considering the way that those words shape what you are saying and how you'd modulate their usage or not.
No I definitely wouldn’t say sn*ggering in front of people. I remember I said it once in front of some of my white friends and even they were weirded out because they didn’t know it was a real word. This reminds me of that one college humor bit where they made a song exclusively of words that sound racist but aren’t.
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Lol
Wait is that actually a thing, people spelling it with the n-word embedded? I've never seen that, why would anyone spell it like that?
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What was removed?
sn*ggering
Omg I thought it was spelled snickering
Both are words.
a synonym for laughing, but not that hard
maybe drop that word. The nuance between it and snickering or chortling is too small to excuse almost-homophone.
No need to censor words that are not slurs because they resemble a slur
There's no need to do anything ever. I've found the potential benefit of saying laughing a little harder than chortling but not quite snickering is severely outweighed by the cost of people thinking I said a slur. It's also not cool to use a word because it sounds like a slur just so no one can technically stop you. That's just an expression of privilege. Everyone is free to do as they like in regards to the word, or any word, I am just suggesting to drop it.
is this a bit
No. I'm not trying to get on any moral high-horse, I have definitely done worse things than use a word that sounds like a slur. I'm just saying there really isn't a good reason to use it because it basically means the same thing as snickering but sounds a lot like a slur.
There's a country that's one letter off from the N word and Juggalos like drinking soft drinks that are a couple letters off from a gay slur. You're a caricature of what people think cancel culture is if you're advocating cancelling words because they sound like bad words.
There is, in fact, a need to do many things often. You, for instance found the need to baselessly suggest that I'm a privileged edgelord because I disagreed with your take
I never suggested you were using the word in this way. I stated that of the two uses, one was not worth it and the other is intentionally mean-spirited. Have you ever met someone who emphasized a word (Nippy, Kite, Cook, Artist, for example) to hint at a slur, but be just outside reproach? That is them just flexing their position of privilege against someone. I'm not suggesting we drop all words that sound like slurs, as context and individual usually show that isn't what they are intended for. However, in this case, the word does not really sound different enough or find enough usage to justify it.
I hope we can all agree that the only legitimate use of nippy is when it's used as middleschool level double entendre.
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