As an ESL: English is a fucking minefield.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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minefield? your field? my field? field of mines? mine? field? mine field? minefield? field mine? fieldmine?
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People probably didn't even know this was a word until they saw this meme.
Meh, it comes up more often than you think. There's a whole Wikipedia page about it's "controversial" use even. I doubt it's as unknown to the general populous as you think.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly
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Parsimonious is just a better word to use at that point in a rant.
Yup. It's a cooler word, anyway.
I remember a politician in 97 or 98 literally tanking his career doing that...don't care if it means miserly...not touching it.
"Seek offence and you shall find it" - The unofficial motto of Tumblr
It's not really a word that is used anymore, though I have encountered it in some older books.
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There's an alternate pronunciation and spelling of the word snickering. Same sentiment applies.
"Snickering", as far as I can tell is just the American version of "sniggering". I can't track down the etymology of the split and so I can't see any huge mentions of "it sounded a bit racist so we changed it" but I guess it seems plausible given things like "titbit" being changed to "tidbit".
While someone saying "niggardly" is a bit suspicious given that it's a pretty archaic word that most people haven't even heard of, "sniggering" is a pretty normal word to use in Britain. I imagine if some racist wants to start using it as a bit of coded bigotry they could, American-branded homophobia has already ruined the word "fags" to describe your cigs!
Did you put the "removed" in this manually, out of interest?
Probably your lemmy instance censoring certain words. I don't see "removed" in their comment
It's so weird because it's not censoring "niggardly", only "sremoveding".
Edit: Oh right, "niggardly" doesn't contain the whole N-word inside itself.
Yeah it's just matching to hard R and replacing with removed
niggardly wouldn't match unless you replaced a with e
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Lol, the Scunthorpe problem in action
Very frustrating to see such stupidity in Lemmy.
It's like how the game Dark Souls would censor any word containing "nig", and unintentionally made anyone naming themselves "Knight whatever" look racist. In a game full of knights.
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Snigger? Jesus Christ that's just a normal word. What's next? Being from Niger is racist?
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“Hey, I said it with a hard D though!”
A hard D is what your mom got last night.
Hard D is the opposite of hard R, I guess?
Reminds me of when Obama was president and some totally not racist tea party conservatives suddenly just loved mentioning that the president "reneged" on this or that.
You find reneged to be racist? Americans are wild wtf.
I've been an American my whole life, and this is the first I've heard of that word being considered racist. But I've heard a whole lot of revisionist history around words lately.
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Welcome to the funhouse of undulating mirrors, where words become meaningless, they can mean whatever you want (or don't want) them to mean.
This is also where we imbue magical powers to some words, as we try to ban them... which only makes them more powerful and volatile, and they might even suddenly manifest themselves implied in places and other words where they've never been implied before!
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God. My brain uses that word. And my tongue and soul hate it.
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Eh gate keeping non-offensive words seems a bit daft.
I learned a new word!
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