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As an ESL: English is a fucking minefield.
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.
"his"tory reinforces the patriarchy because words sound the same! 🙄
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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Eh gate keeping non-offensive words seems a bit daft.
"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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“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?
It derives from "stingy," so I'm not sure you even know the etymology of the word if you're trying to imply it has anything to do with race.
I could see this being the case if people used it incorrectly often; but it's not very commonly used at all, much less used out of context because it sounds like another N word.
The meme is calling people out who purposely use it to get a reaction
I learned a new word!
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