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Anon visits America (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Anyone who (likely) intentionally writes the word "snicker" wrong to include a slur doesn't think the actual bad stuff in America is bad.

[-] hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

Snigger is just a variant form more common in the UK, where snicker is the preferred one in the US. Though I wouldn't put it past a 4chan user, it's also a perfectly normal word they may have learned being taught and exposed to UK variants of English.

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

That's so weird, I've literally never seen that form used even by people from the UK.

I guess it's plausible that they'd just write it like that, I guess.

The secret third option is that they know that it's a way of spelling it and prefer to use it because hehe n word.

[-] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

I thought, and a quick Google confirms, that it is used in the Harry Potter series a few times. Obviously, you might not have read them, but for people in my cohort, that was likely our largest exposure point to British culture.

[-] amon@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago
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