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.
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.