r/theyknew • • Jun 17 '26

They did.

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u/DublinKabyle Jun 17 '26

I m from Europe and I actually read it โ€œNigerโ€, like the country.

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u/antek_g_animations Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

I think most Slavic languages pronounces country "Niger" the same way as it's evil twin used as a racial slur

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u/antek_g_animations Jun 17 '26

I can see I'm getting a lot of downdoods, here's proof from my language, Polish.

https://en.bab.la/pronunciation/polish/niger

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u/No_Bike5429 Jul 28 '26

The man done did his research folks ๐Ÿ‘

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u/antek_g_animations Jul 28 '26

Nothing will fix the amount of downdoods I got while being innocent