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Newfoundlanders you mean.
by fooster 1y ago
Newfoundlanders you mean.
- brailsafe 1y agoFairly sure Newfie is broadly used as a colloquial term of endearment in the rest of Canada, by Newfoundlanders and non-Newfoundlanders. There's just too many syllables
- creaturemachine 1y agoHow about Newfoundland-and-Labradorean? It's funny that the only ones insulted by Newfie are the non-newfies.
- fooster 1y agoI am a Newfoundlander and I don’t appreciate that term.
- fooster 1y agoIt is not. It is insulting and derogatory. Don’t use it thanks.
- brailsafe 1y agoWhile that's not how it's ever been used in my life, I can accept that it's perfectly valid for you and presumably many others to feel differently. Having grown up with so much predominantly east coast originating comedy, and around so many Newfoundland diaspora, I guess it never occurred to me that there was any real negative connotation whatsoever, beyond poking a bit of fun at some of the presumably antiquated cultural stereotypical differences via self-deprecating jokes that most people from smaller places have their own versions of and don't take too seriously.