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[Anonymous No.15735933]

>It seems a little niggardly not to include any photographs
>niggardly
>niggard
>niggar
>nigger
When will this word be banned?

[Anonymous No.15735958]

>>15735933
It's germanic not latin etymologically and has nothing to do with the word nigger.

[Anonymous No.15735968]

>>15735933
You're racist for thinking this has to do with watermelon Americans.

[Anonymous No.15735974]

>>15735968
*basketball

[Anonymous No.15735977]

>>15735933
It's already been "banned." I remember a politician who used the word when I was teenager and he got fired I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly

>>15735958
It's definition is merely a coincidence.

[Anonymous No.15735983]

>>15735974
*Black

[Anonymous No.15735984]

>>15735933
is it racists if 25% of the words in my book is either nigger or some variation of nigger?

[Anonymous No.15735993]

anyone have any good recipes with Brazil nuts?

[Anonymous No.15735995]

>>15735933
edgy
not

[Anonymous No.15736015]

>>15735933
Go back. This place is clearly not for you.

[Anonymous No.15736028]

>>15735983
*grape drink

[Anonymous No.15736037]

>>15736028
nigger

[Anonymous No.15736063]

>>15735977
>"You can't say [the commenter]—white, black or Klingon for all I know—had racist motives. And you can't exactly not say it," Poniewozik wrote. He expected a number of "pinheads" to be asking "black waitresses not to be 'niggardly' with the coffee"
My sides

[Anonymous No.15736069]

>>15736063
Fuck quoted the wrong thing without reading. I meant this
>"I bet that even as I write, some adolescent boys, in the stairwell of some high school somewhere in America, are accusing each other of being niggardly, and sniggering at their own outrageous wit. I bet ... Wait a minute. 'Sniggering'? Oh, my God. ..."

[Anonymous No.15736076]

>>15735977
Bernie Sanders used it in a debate and nothing happened as a result. Real moron hours right now

[Anonymous No.15736565]

>In 1995, London-based magazine The Economist used the word "niggardly" in an article about the impact of computers and productivity: "During the 1980s, when service industries consumed about 85% of the $1 trillion invested in I.T. in the United States, productivity growth averaged a niggardly 0.8% a year." The Economist later pointed out with amusement that it received a letter from a reader in Boston who thought the word "niggardly" was inappropriate. "Why do we get such letters only from America?" the British magazine commented.[17]
Americans are fucking cancer

[Anonymous No.15736576]

>>15736565
>"Why do we get such letters only from America?" the British magazine commented.[17]
based bongs

[Anonymous No.15736596]

>>15735958
From Middle English nigard, nygard (“miser”), from nig (“niggardly person”), possibly of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse hnǫggr (“miserly, stingy”). Possibly cognate to niggle (“miser”).[1] Compare German Knicker (“niggard”), knickerig (“niggardly”). Not related to nigger.

[Anonymous No.15736608]

Little know history: the word "snigger" was actually coined as a suppression of voice, or air rather, as it was in reference to the sound made by a "suffocating nigger" when they used to be hanged. snigger will disappear from the lexicon very soon for its problematic origins.

[Anonymous No.15736679]

>>15735933
Why would anyone use this word anyway? I doubt anyone uses it in person so why the fuck are they using it in writing? You could just say "mean" or one of the many synonyms. Only a total fedora would use that word

[Anonymous No.15738125]

>>15736608
it's a variant of snicker, you lying prick

[Anonymous No.15738155]

>>15735933
Yes and "can't" is very close in spelling and sound to "cunt" but you don't see anybody getting the two confused do you?

[Anonymous No.15738175]

>>15736679
>nooo you can't make fulll use od the english lexicon!!!