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I’m going to write a personal budgeting app and call it <redacted for pearl-clutching Americans> (an archaic word for miser/pennypincher, roughly homophonous bu
by gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
I’m going to write a personal budgeting app and call it <redacted for pearl-clutching Americans> (an archaic word for miser/pennypincher, roughly homophonous but etymologically unrelated to an extremely offensive slur)
- gunfighthacksaw 5y agoThere are people who get upset that Chancellor Merkel is leading Germany because they sincerely believe she is the granddaughter of Hitler, when there is a coincidental resemblance at best. Those people who get upset with the synonym for “stingy person” because it sounds like the slur are the equivalent but for linguistics. I didn’t even write it (to accommodate them) yet they still find my racy joke controversial.