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.
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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