general

my case rests

its a slur

lol

After this research, I am voting yes

Retard is too formal to be a slur. For something to be a slur it must be either a mispronounciation or a shortening of an existing word.

Like how Bob is a slur for people named Rob.

What makes something a slur is not the meaning or the harshness of the word, but rather the etymology and how it was invented.

I don't think it is a slur, however I am careful about who I say it around https://www.instagram.com/p/DY6ZXVQOkVJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

all of these slur debates are funny because they don't really apply to me being a non native English speaker, but because Dutch people use Dutch and English interchangeably, we still use these words like normal and no one gives a fuck

Agreed, similar to any curse. I'd stick retard in a level 3 swear word. In public, I'd say hell and damnit. At work, I'd say fuck and shit. With friends, I'd say retard and nigger.

Eh, maybe 2. I've said retard at work a lot.

on the topic of Dutch people using Dutch and English, i sometimes hear Dutch people straight up speaking English to each other, and sometimes i even say things in English to my brother for no reason

the Netherlands is basically English at this point

Is it even close in language?

close enough but not really

The spelling of Dutch sometimes looks like a fake language

compared to every other language that isn't Frisian, it can be argued that Dutch is closest

Frisian is essentially just old English before the French frenchified English

the funny thing about why English speakers think Dutch looks weird is BECAUSE it's so similar to English, giving it an uncanny feel

Would you say Dutch or German is closer to English? I thought German was basically the same.

Dutch is closer to English

but it's closer to German than English

The use of ij and z does, yeah

Well, like, I remember a lot of signs having more z's. Obv we have that, but in my mind, I know something is instantly Dutch with the ij and usually if there's a random Z in there.

ij is a huge giveaway yeah

don't know many other languages that use that as much

lots of double vowels too

or in some cases triple vowels like in pika's favourite Dutch word that he loves to pronounce

Which word is that?

geëerd

don't question it too much

I got google translate to say it for me, I think it makes sense lol

it's just eer with the prefix and suffix to make it an adjective

like adding -ed at the end in English

it's honor > honored

sorry, the linguist in me was activated

I'll stop now and go back to work

I like linguistics lol I just don't know Dutch besides how to pronounce a few words

And I like the band K3

oh no Ventt

(and their dads)

I tried looking up 99 luftballons and I thought it was 100 balloons, and that got me to the 10.000 luchtballonnen song by them lmao

lol

i use it more carefully now, and yea if you say it against an actual vegetable person thats not ok, but idt its that big of deal otherwise

If I believe that it is but it shouldn't be should I vote yes or no

imagine there's a nationwide poll to make the word a slur or not

image you do that for every world in the language

I think you'd get a funny funny ones that get made into slurs

and a few slurs that get declasified

What do you think would be classified as a new slur?

woman

I wonder if anyone still uses womyn or if they gave up on that entirely

's poll Violent Display of Battle.... The Hero?!?!?! has closed.

The Villain has won.....

send in the honey badger

1,000,000 Lions vs The Sun (blood lusted + prep time + its at night so the suns off)

how many of the lions are albino?

guys you're not going to like the slur i ask about next.

The writing in the next Phijkchu Game is going to be wild

Phijkchu Games RnD have been hard at work creating the next big slur!

how much prep time?

I think 24 hours is fair

I think the sun needs more than 24 hours of prep time

if the sun gets any more prep time the lions will just produce another generation of lions...I think its over

maybe if it was only like 1,000 lions

Can the sun spin really fast to make so many days pass that the lions all die of old age before they can do anything

Idk if the sun can do that, let me check the power scaler VsWiki

maybe but then the lions could also spin that fast too and they would turn into beyblades

If the lions can all spin counter clockwise I think itll negate the effect

I think the problem is with space then

how large is the battlefield

its 1 sun, but 1 million lions will take up a lot of space

thats a lot of lions

It is, I would be worried that effectively the sun only needs to fight 5 or so lions at a time

oh shit, like the lions can all fight but the max you can have in battle at once is only 5?

Yeah something like that. It depends on the battlefield size

maybe we need to upgrade the game engine to support war scale battles

I think if the sun is fighting 1 million lions in a chokepoint, it can win easily

but if its all at once, its more up in the air