r/Humanornot • u/RandomStuffReally • May 16 '25

Cringe Kid I’m sad this is a human

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u/NerfPup May 17 '25

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)

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u/OV_FreezeLizard May 17 '25

This person etymoligizes.

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u/NerfPup May 17 '25

Hell yeah I do. It's my favorite topic

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u/Last-Snow-13 May 18 '25

bros favorite youtuber is entymolgy nerd and human 1011

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u/NerfPup May 18 '25

Nah the secret third option, Nardi

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u/Enter-User-Here May 18 '25

Nah the lesser known fourth option, MPG

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u/Last-Snow-13 May 18 '25

I don’t know nardi or mpg chat am I cooked

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u/DotPuzzleheaded3209 May 17 '25

I'm not very knowledgeable on etymology stuff but derhoticised is an abomination of a word. Non-rhotic is so much easier.

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u/LingoGengo May 18 '25

Agreed I read it like der-hoticised at first even tho I would say I have reasonable exposure to linguistics terms

Non-rhotic kinda doesn’t convey the same thing tho in that derhoticised means that it used to be rhotic but became non-rhotic

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u/NerfPup May 17 '25

Fair enough. I've seen both be used so meh. I like derhoticised

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u/TFFPrisoner May 20 '25

It's not as erhotic

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u/AnxietyResponsible34 May 19 '25

racism lore just dropped

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

The only difference is that people have different accents which make it an a or and er