• @trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
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    -208 days 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
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      168 days 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
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        -148 days 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
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          108 days 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.