The N Word

[hc4361]

Has the N word been diluted and accepted in to common parlance as these magistrates suggest?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242804/Rap-music-fan-shouted-n---black-man-CLEARED-racism-magistrates-accept-using-street-slang.html

Is it now only middle class white people that shudder at the word? Is it a good thing that the word is no longer taboo?

I have never said that word and can't imagine ever using it, but I don't use a lot of words that young people say today.

[sandyRoe]

Why did the photographer have him pose with that dog and the vodka?

[Duncer]

Semantics in extremis........

[hc4361]

To present him in a certain light to show that magistrates are numpties?

[hc4361]

Methyl, don't you listen to current popular music?

[ChuckFickens]

It's not the word, it's how it's used and who you use it to IMO.... but it is a word that you have to be very careful about.

I'd happily call my friends tw@ts, I wouldn't call a stranger that.

In my circle of friends I have a friend who calls another friend "Mr. Black" but they've been mates for over 30 years and it's taken as it's meant, I don't know the "Mr. Black" well enough to call him that, so although he's a friend I don't feel I could call him that.

[EDDIE51]

The word is how young black people choose to describe themselves now, in that context it is no longer offensive.

[EDDIE51]

read this link it describes it well but the word is Nigg@ with an a not an er !
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=***

[EDDIE51]

Link didn't seem to work try again
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=***

[EDDIE51]

You have to enter the word in the search bar then it works.

[jno]

this has been noticed before

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1194340.html

This what you're after, Eddie?

http://tinyurl.com/l2b7k

[hc4361]

Language and semantics are fascinating. I was brought up to believe that 'coloured' or 'people of colour' were the polite ways of describing black people.
Then that was a no-no and 'black' is the proper word to use.
My father said 'negroid' but never used the N word. I was brought up to believe that word is highly offensive, a swear word, I suppose.

Times they are a-changing

[jno]

it's a not uncommon way for young black people to talk to each other. Coming from a white man it's always going to be dodgy.

[EDDIE51]

That's it jno thanks.

[Buenchico]

I used to drink in an unlicensed club in Sheffield (run by a group of Afro-caribbeans) where I was always known as 'the white n*****". I regarded it as a compliment!

[Peter Pedant]

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I use lots of words that teenagers dont
in fact a lot they probably dont understand

and so I expect teenagers to use words I dont.


I referred to my lady dog as a bitch in front of
some shelf packers who fell about roaring with laughter
and I could only conclude that they were not aware that the word had a canine context as well as the one they used.....

[ELVIS68]

Chris Rock explains it all if you care to look on YouTube

[plautus]

Probably the only book in history to have had three titles is Agatha Christie's "Ten Little N******".
Due to changing attitudes it was later changed to "Ten Little Indians"

That too proved unacceptable so now it is titled "...And then there were none"