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FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Shitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month ago

What innocent word sounds like a slur?

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What innocent word sounds like a slur?

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Shitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month ago
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  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Toaster.

    • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Oh, yeah? Well, fuck your couch.

  • besselj@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Clanker (because LLMs don’t actually have feelings and shouldn’t be anthropomorphized)

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
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    Prestigiditation.

    If I didn’t know what that meant and heard you say it, I’d probably be asking what you called my mother.

    Also, I found “legerdemain” as a synonym on a thesaurus site and I think the same thing would apply. Don’t know about anyone else, but to me that just sounds like it’s a German word.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    There was a story about a politician in the 19th or early 20th century who slandered an opponent by describing him using fancy words that were perfectly innocent but sounded sinister in context. His speech had sentences like “a tireless pedagogue known to associate with thespians” or similar.

    • topherclay@lemmy.world
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      People accused everyone of associating with thespians when I was in middle school.

  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Dykes for Diagonal Cutters/Wire Cutters. Also, Dike as as in low barriers used for flood control. That said, I wasn’t aware the spelling made any difference until I looked it up just now.

  • BellaDonna@mujico.org
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    Negro, just means black, but in English it’s a mess.

  • plzExplainNdetail@slrpnk.net
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    Renig or Renege

    Renig is a common misspelling of renege, variously used for “backing out on an agreement” and often mistaken as a racial epithet. (Courtesy of dictionary.com)

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    Niggard which predates the bad word by nearly 500 years and means someone who is a miser.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly

  • josefo@leminal.space
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    Exiguous

  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Jittery

  • Widdershins@lemmy.world
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    Niggardly/niggard predates the racist slur by quite a while but it still has gotten people in trouble for using it. It has completely different roots not in racism. It just sounds too similar for anyone to use.

    • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
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      Add an “s” in front of the n-word and it apparently becomes a synonym for snicker. Crazy stuff.

    • Hodrobond@lemmy.world
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      I have a niggling feeling there are more of these words

      • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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        Like chigger

  • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
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    Rejigger

    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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      Bigger. You should use “larger” instead.

      “bugger” is fine, though.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Trump.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    mook

    goon

    bishonen

    chandler

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