Author Topic: Definition Of Nigger (Read 8278 times)

Alex · « **Reply #1 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:55:28 AM »

You must want to cure your boredom by creating a stir.

clare · « **Reply #2 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:30:45 AM »

So, anyone can become one, and anyone who is one at present can repent and change.

Matthew · « **Reply #3 on:** April 28, 2009, 09:15:56 AM »

I've never heard that term applied to that definition.

In fact, I know the real etymology of the word.

You can tell it was just slang for a black person -- In Spanish, black is "negro". In Latin, it's "niger".

I'm not sure when it became a derogatory term.

What's interesting is that even today, the term has a second meaning -- "fellow of my ethnicity", "brother", etc. which can only be used by fellows of that race.

Matthew

roscoe · « **Reply #4 on:** April 28, 2009, 12:07:55 PM »

If this was posted two yrs ago there would have been screams for me to be banned. Actually Alex is correct-- after my second glass of wine last night I felt a little frisky.

roscoe · « **Reply #5 on:** April 28, 2009, 12:10:48 PM »

I think the name Nero is a derivation of negro as in Italian the g is often silent.

parentsfortruth · « **Reply #6 on:** April 28, 2009, 01:11:37 PM »

Quote from: ChantCd

I've never heard that term applied to that definition.

In fact, I know the real etymology of the word.

You can tell it was just slang for a black person -- In Spanish, black is "negro". In Latin, it's "niger".

I'm not sure when it became a derogatory term.

What's interesting is that even today, the term has a second meaning -- "fellow of my ethnicity", "brother", etc. which can only be used by fellows of that race.

Matthew

This is always what I thought. Pronounced, "Nee 'gher." Latin for the color black.

greenhill · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:30:09 PM »

Am I thick or something, but did something happen to the original posting?

roscoe · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:34:18 PM »

The orig posting was a reference to someone with a dark mind-- someone opposed to the light of truth.

roscoe · « **Reply #9 on:** November 20, 2009, 04:49:42 PM »

Why my orig post had to be removed is somewhat puzzling as there was no intent to be racial. Now someone could look at the post and presume that it WAS racial.

greenhill · « **Reply #10 on:** November 20, 2009, 05:05:58 PM »

Oh!

I just thought it was some subtle joke. Way above my head.

Lybus · « **Reply #11 on:** November 22, 2009, 07:15:42 PM »

Definitions change all the time.

I recently learned that "liberal" actually means "free from physical labor" way back-when. There was the "liberal" man that could work with his head (e.g scholar, poet) and the ones who had no education in which to escape the slavery of manual labor. So, there was the "liberal" class and the "working" class. Today, it has a bunch of weird meanings, like "liberal democrat" or "liberetarian."

The "N" word is no different. It's been turned into an insult (idk if had any other meaning, but w/e). No one in their right minds would call themselves "gαy," to say that they were happy nowadays. I guess that's just how it works. Languages chance all the time.

TheD · « **Reply #12 on:** November 22, 2009, 09:29:34 PM »

In my Latin text book, it means black.

roscoe · « **Reply #13 on:** November 23, 2009, 02:45:25 AM »

Neri = Negri--- Nero = Negro.

roscoe · « **Reply #14 on:** November 23, 2009, 02:47:26 AM »

If one looks up the literal meaning of nice it is derived from the Latin nicere-- to not want to know something.