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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The middle English word for "stingy"?
We all know why they're saying it though.
I don't think I've ever had the reason to say this word, or even thought of it on the spot.
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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.
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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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"his"tory reinforces the patriarchy because words sound the same! 🙄
Eh gate keeping non-offensive words seems a bit daft.
“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?
I learned a new word!
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