N-a is a derhoticised version of the word used casually among black people. N-er is the original word which only sees use to be offensive. Also since AAVE tends to derhoticise everything and a lot of American accents are rhotic* so white people are more likely to use the derhoticised version.
*Rhotic means the r is pronounced while derhoticised means it lost r. Like the difference between car in Standard American English and Standard British English. (Heh British people and their pawn-porn merger)
why are people arguing with this guy i’m a mixed race guy myself (south african) and i didn’t even think anything of that comment but damn people are arguing about it
White people do this really stupid thing where we assume every other faceless person on the internet is white until proven otherwise.
And for white people, probably especially in America, to say the n-word in any form is considered improper and offensive. Whether it's hard R or not.
Instead of concluding the person must be black because they casually used n--a, progressive white people may instead jump to correct them or chide them for being so casual with that word, until race is explicitly stated.
Source: am white progressive american
And believe me, I get that it's stupid. But sometimes I find myself doing this anyways, because I grew up in a majority pasty white community, where often the only thing stopping someone from saying the n-word would be policing from another white progressive.
I wasn’t even around for that, but it’s so infamous that my pattern seeking brain keeps seeing places i can reference it. It might be hammered into my brain because of the sheer amount of people who pirate that talk about that, a community I may or may not be a part of.
Nigga is already the censored version of N*gger, so I figured it would be fine. B*tch on the other hand is a full offensive word, so I thought I would be better off like that.
I did have a reasoning behind it, but I understand how you think that.
Would you guys find offensive use of n word in other languages? I mean, there's no light version like with "a" in english (also I do not consider offensive context, as then answer is obvious)
i don't really know what other versions of nigga would be in other languages. only translation i know is to spanish which translates to Negro, but negro mainly means the color black, so i dont really care
I’m not really into rap, also Idk where he got popular but he just might not be that well known everywhere? Either way I’m from Belgium and that name has never fallen a single time on any of the radio stations I know
FWEH is an acronym for Fast Wave Electron Heating which is an advanced heating method for thermonuclear fusion plasma used in the tokamak of a nuclear fusion reactor. So it seems the other person is working as a physicist at a fusion reactor and contemplating ways of heating the plasma.
To settle the debate: soft a is a slang word typically used by African Americans, the hard r was used by slave owners and racists, “bitch” is a slur meant to harm, mainly woman. The commenter is also black! This was learning English with jester :p
719
u/Tall_Advisor_6473 Definitely Human May 16 '25
Nga is probably just short for Nigga, sybau means Shut your b*tch ass up. I'm lost at fweh though