• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I’m no fan of censorship, but would you mind at least putting up a trigger warning if you’re going to post something with hate speech?

    For those of you wanting a copy with the M-word edited out so you can enjoy and share without perpetuating ugly stereotypes, please see below:

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      4 days ago

      That’s their word, and it comes from a position of oppression, power, and feline liberation as a repurposed colloquial term for familiarity.

      We really shouldn’t be using it.

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    Like Mandarin, it may be that cat-speak is tonal. What sounds to an untrained ear like the same word could in fact be something entirely different. Even if your untrained ear is trained in another tonal language.

    Cat says “Hi”, you think you’ve imitated perfectly but accidentally imply something crude about their mother. Or possibly a horse. Who can tell?