Just say cheap.
I’d say: Don’t be niggardly in your use of the word “niggardly”. Freedom of speech, you know. It isn’t your fault if others are ignorant of words.
I had a very liberal History professor at Cleveland State who accidentally used “niggardly” in a casual statement and damn it if every rotten one of our so-called “black students” got up on their haunches and bitched the poor bastard out.
All I could hear from him was, “yeah but . . . yeah but . . . yeah but.”
I laughed my ass off at his trying to defend himself and at their total stupidity. But those chips were on their shoulders was back in 1979.
I’m waiting to see it show up in a rap song.
While technically it comes from a different root word, the fact is that nobody says it anymore.
Back in the 70’s there was a big media uproar about the use of the word and media defended the use. And then nobody has used it since. Also a college was used and a teacher lost his job over the use of that word.
The simple fact is that it sounds too similar to the “n” word regardless of the original root being different.
Use “Cheap” it’s easier to say and will keep you out of trouble.
Thank you, teacher’s union, for keeping kids ignorant.
I was recently in China and there is a Mandarin word for “that” or “you” or “them” (never was sure the context) that is pronounced exactly like the N word...
A good scanadahoovian word...... so tight you can’t even find your first penny
That’s very nice and dandy for him to say, but we live in reality land, where public officials have been fired in DeeCee for saying it.
a Jr. Hi buddy actually got an attaboy from a teacher for using this word in a paper to describe his view of his weekly allowance. Of course that was back when we were all racists...
It’s a word I would only use here on FR. It’ s pretty much archaic now.
I recall a city council meeting in D.C. several years ago where someone used the word niggardly in a finance debate and a council member became racially indignant over its use...more evidence of public education in D.C.
Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 (Rosenkrantz, describing Hamlet to Claudius)
A black Brit on his way to the U.S. wants to know if his use of the word will be offensive—and whether he should care.
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The answer to the 1st part (offensive?) is: depends on who you say it to. The answer to the 2nd part (care?): no.
Anything these days can be racist.
The sun rises in the morning.
DAT’S WASCIST!
A guy on the radio yesterday told a caller that he might consider “hiring Guido” to break someone’s legs.
If I were Italian should I be offended?
Reminds me of David Howard resigning for using the word niggardly. The DC mayor accepted the resignation, then the homosexuals went nuts and the mayor rescinded the resignation.
can't make this stuff up
I love slipping that word in to conversation. The reactions are priceless.