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> [...] an English person says "can I burn a fag" and an American person believes they are casually thinking about hurting a gay man. FYI, it's combination of
by shrikant 5y ago
> [...] an English person says "can I burn a fag" and an American person believes they are casually thinking about hurting a gay man.
FYI, it's combination of difficult-to-discern keming with the default font on HN, and your unfamiliarity with the phrase, but it's actually "BUM A FAG" and not "BURN A FAG".
- simiones 5y agoYes, you're right, thanks for correcting that! Incidentally, did you intentionally write keming instead of kerning?
- shrikant 5y agoYes :) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keming https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keming
- userbinator 5y agoIt's interesting to see so many people thought it was "burn" --- perhaps the reference to cigarettes primed the "mental autocorrect" in the wrong direction.