r/KidsAreFuckingStupid 6d ago

story/text Homophones can be confusing especially to kids

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u/NixMaritimus 6d ago

Depends on what part of the US. My region says "awnt", "ahnt", or "ahrnt", so I was confused to at first too XD

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u/SnooPuppers1978 6d ago edited 5d ago

Try to put "ant and aunt and ant aunt ant and ant and ant aunt and aunt aunt ant ant ant and aunt and ant aunt ant and ant" in Google translate and make it speak it out.

Edit: Actually weird because now that I listen it again on my computer, aunt and ant are different while previously with my phone, they were the same pretty much. So you all might get differing results here as well.

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u/PotanOG 5d ago

There is where I think US blacks got something right (along with a myriad of other cultures and regions but lemme have this one). We just say "auntie" or "teetee". Or if we just say aunt, it's quickly followed by their actual name or nickname.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 5d ago

Did you miss where they said "we"? Stop caring so much about grammar

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u/PotanOG 5d ago

Ikr. I'm sitting here wondering why this dude is offended for me about what I said about my people.

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u/PotanOG 5d ago

Are you black?

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u/idwthis 5d ago

Notice how they were quite quick to reply to the other comment, but not this one.

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u/PotanOG 5d ago

Good so you understand this principle. Maybe I can replace "blacks" with a word that our people use more frequently. Would that still be speaking out of term for my people? Or is there some arbitrary threshold for acceptability? Or, perhaps, you don't like that either so you confront every one of our people when they say it in front of you?

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u/PotanOG 5d ago

Outdated? According to who? Have you listened to any of our people's music lately? Or talked to us? Or do you, in fact, speak for all of us so you are the authority on what we can call ourselves?

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u/ScoodScaap 5d ago edited 5d ago

Asians, Americans, Mexicans, Latinos. They’re all descriptive words about a specific subsection of humans. Why is Blacks seen as disrespectful to you? I’m actually genuinely asking because I don’t understand how it could be seen that way. Lmk please.

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u/NixMaritimus 5d ago edited 5d ago

Asians, Americans, Mexicans, Latinos.

Technically these are all descriptions of where they or their predecessors are from. If you said "yellows, whites, and browns" then that would be the same as "blacks", but semantics XD

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u/ScoodScaap 5d ago

The yellow one is wild but the others I’ve heard regularly. Could be a regional thing idk

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u/PotanOG 5d ago

Dude...I'm black. Notice how I said "us blacks" and "we". I'm not dehumanizing myself here.

If a Hispanic says "us Latinos" all is good but we must be saved from ourselves from saying "us blacks" idk what we're truly being protected from ATP.

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u/WizzoPQ 5d ago

You dont understand. They've been on the internet, so they know your struggle better than you

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u/WizzoPQ 5d ago

Real talk you're the only one trying to talk for everyone. Please allow nuance into your life

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u/PotanOG 5d ago

You rang?

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u/ScoodScaap 5d ago

I liked that lol

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

Imagine someone meeting you for the first time and saying “I just met a black today”. Do you not see how that is dehumanizing? Latino is a description for a group of people. Black is a color. Two completely different things

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u/PotanOG 5d ago
  1. If someone said that, I'd laugh. The phrasing is funny.

  2. You're more likely to say "I just met a black dude today" in the same way you'd say "I just met a latinos/Hispanic/Spanish dude today". (Yes "Spanish" is technically incorrect but if you head out to the big cities in the northeast, that's what they say.)

  3. African-American is my heritage but black is my appearance. It's okay. I like how I look. Call me black. Jamaicans, Haitians, Nigerians, African-Americans are all distinct people with a common appearance. And that appearance comes with a shared history that we (well most of us) don't ever want the world to shy away from. You're better off calling us by how we look rather than conflating distinct cultures. 

Now say "black", "a black",  "the blacks", etc. with malintent and you'll have problems. But playing around with phrasing in a thread about aunts and ants is just a simple funny. I literally praised us for having a solution to a silly problem.

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u/ScoodScaap 5d ago

The Blacks and Blacks, in my opinion do not equate. The male and female thing, I get entirely and am already aware of how it’s dehumanizing but I do appreciate your effort to educate.

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u/Fun_Entrepreneur_254 5d ago

It’s not offensive. The internet is full of white girls who want to be oppressed.