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Perhaps my background makes me a little more attuned to this particular word, but 'kike' practically leapt off the page to me. In English, words ending in a si
by earlyresort 10y ago
Perhaps my background makes me a little more attuned to this particular word, but 'kike' practically leapt off the page to me.
In English, words ending in a single short vowel followed by a single consonant double the consonant before adding '-ed' to form the past tense. That's the grammatical rule.
I still can't tell if this project is by someone with bad grammar or some 4chan-bred bigot trying to make a double entendre, but either way, it's fucking obnoxious to see it on the front page of Hacker News.
- ChristianBundy 10y agoNever attribute to 4chan that which could adequately be explained by bad grammar.
- stordoff 10y agoI'm a native English speaker, and probably would have made the same mistake. 'Kick' conjugates as 'kicked', so I would have conjugated 'Kik' as 'Kiked' and 'Kikked' just looks weird to me. Though I've heard the term 'kike' before, I certainly don't hear it enough (I'm in the UK FWIW) that I would have recognised it unless it was pointed out (and obviously at that point would adjust the name). Your posts come across as ascribing malice to a fairly trivial (IMO) mistake. Politely pointing out that the name could be misinterpreted to be a derogatory term would have been a been course of action.
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- joshmanders 10y ago> either way, it's fucking obnoxious to see it on the front page of Hacker News. Of course, because you can't read, it's obnoxious to be on the front page.