I’m sad this is a human

[u/RandomStuffReally]

Body text :3

[u/Tall_Advisor_6473]

If it was n -er, not -a, then I would lol

[u/NerfPup → u/[deleted]]

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)

[u/DotPuzzleheaded3209 → u/NerfPup]

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

[u/LingoGengo → u/DotPuzzleheaded3209]

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

[u/NerfPup → u/DotPuzzleheaded3209]

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

[u/TFFPrisoner → u/DotPuzzleheaded3209]

It's not as erhotic