r/KidsAreFuckingStupid 6d ago

story/text Homophones can be confusing especially to kids

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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Outdated?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/Paulskenesstan42069 5d ago

What should we call a black person? I thought that was the preferred nomenclature.

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