Talk:niggerish

RFV discussion: January 2022

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niggerish

Rfv-sense for the noun. —Svārtava ^{[t•c•u•r]} 06:27, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

I could only find one. I suspect there may be more out there, but they are masked by all the adjectival uses. Kiwima (talk) 07:42, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

There's also at least one usage on Usenet, in a capitalized form: [1]. 70.172.194.25 07:52, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

@Kiwima Isn't the one you added a mention rather than actual use? —Svārtava ^{[t•c•u•r]} 08:06, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

It’s the author’s choice to make it look like a mention. The punctuation used is not a reliable indicator of that. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 17:07, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

I can see where you might consider it mention-y, but it still is used to convey meaning - the one boy is saying that what he is speaking is the "language" niggerish. Kiwima (talk) 19:02, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Discussed this with Svartava on Discord. Putting it in quote marks doesn't make it a mention, since it still serves its function in the sentence to refer to the thing. That's not like saying "blah means such-and-such". Equinox ◑ 20:44, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Cited. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 19:06, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 11:36, 31 January 2022 (UTC)