Nigger vs Nigga, are both words referred to as the N-word?

When someone says the phrase "The N Word," what word are they referring to?

  • Nigger

    Votes: 8 22.9%
  • Nigger or Nigga

    Votes: 1 2.9%
  • Either if whitey says it

    Votes: 26 74.3%

  • Total voters
    35

zionlion1488

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Ok so I didn't know where else to post this and it's been bothering me for weeks. I'm a millennial, around the same age as Null. Recently my sister who is a Zoomer said to me "this kid in my school just got kicked off of (some sports team, I don't really remember honestly) because there's a video of him saying the N Word." She shows me the video and it's literally a drunk white college kid saying "shout out to my niggas" on some kind of Snapchat or Instagram video. I was shocked and said "since when is nigga the N Word, in my entire life I've never heard someone say that nigga is the N Word, the N Word refers to nigger." My sister told me that in her age group , the N Word can mean either nigga or nigger. So my question to you my fellow kiwis, is this only if a white person says it? I'm just genuinely confused about this. How can the N Word be 2 different words? Is this only a way to punish white people?
 
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Someone being kicked off a sports team for saying a word is retarded whatever the word is but you have to be some kind of sped to not understand why nigger and nigga are not different words.
 
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Someone being kicked off a sports team for saying a word is retarded whatever the word is but you have to be some kind of sped to not understand why nigger and nigga are not different words.
They're completely different words. Nigger is a word that was used during slavery, nigga is a word that is used in rap songs. No slave owner ever said "you niggas get back to work!" So there's zero historical context behind it. If they're the same word, does that mean that basically every rap song contains the N Word?
 
They're completely different words. Nigger is a word that was used during slavery, nigga is a word that is used in rap songs. No slave owner ever said "you niggas get back to work!" So there's zero historical context behind it. If they're the same word, does that mean that basically every rap song contains the N Word?
Nigga isn't a word. It's an example of niggers being unable to speak properly.
 
Nigga isn't a word. It's an example of niggers being unable to speak properly.
Well if that's the case then wouldn't you agree that when someone used the phrase "the N Word," it refers to nigger?
 
In the same way that when someone says "nigga", it also refers to "nigger".
Maybe I'm just old or something, but whenever I've heard someone say "that guy called him the N Word" or "my grandmother uses the N Word all the time" it's always referred to nigger. I've never once heard someone say "those rappers use the N Word all the time" referring to nigga. Or maybe they do and I've just never heard it?
 
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Maybe I'm just old or something, but whenever I've heard someone say "that guy called him the N Word" or "my grandmother uses the N Word all the time" it's always referred to nigger. I've never once heard someone say "those rappers use the N Word all the time" referring to nigga. Or maybe they do and I've just never heard it?
Tricking black people into being ok with calling themselves niggers and that cope about 'taking the word back' will never not be funny. You gotta remember how many of those rap songs are actually written by (((white dudes))) in business suits.
 
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Armor and armour are the same word, color and colour are the same word, nigger and nigga are the same word. In all these examples, one form of the word is used by normal people and the other by absolute retards.
 
If nigger and nigga are different, does that mean "dat" and "that" are different? Is "da" and "the" different? Or "tha" and "the"?

And yes, slave owners most definitely said, "nigga". They were from the rural south. They didn't speak perfect King's English.
 
If nigger and nigga are different, does that mean "dat" and "that" are different? Is "da" and "the" different? Or "tha" and "the"?

And yes, slave owners most definitely said, "nigga". They were from the rural south. They didn't speak perfect King's English.
OP would get shot to death during a mugging.

Melanated Gentleman appears: "GIMME YO SHIT FOO"
OP: "I'm sorry I don't recognize those words, what language do you speak?"
Melanated Gentleman: "RITE NOW MUTHAFUCKA"
OP: "Siri! Quick translate this language to English it's life or death!!"
Melanated Gentleman: "LASS TIME I GONNA AX"
OP: "SIRI WHAT IS THIS MAN SAYING?!?!"

The melanated gentleman procedes to shoot OP 14 times with a sideways held gun.
 
OP would get shot to death during a mugging.

Melanated Gentleman appears: "GIMME YO SHIT FOO"
OP: "I'm sorry I don't recognize those words, what language do you speak?"
Melanated Gentleman: "RITE NOW MUTHAFUCKA"
OP: "Siri! Quick translate this language to English it's life or death!!"
Melanated Gentleman: "LASS TIME I GONNA AX"
OP: "SIRI WHAT IS THIS MAN SAYING?!?!"

The melanated gentleman procedes to shoot OP 14 times with a sideways held gun.
While your scenario is very untrue (I live and work around many of these melanated individuals), it did make me laugh my ass of so thank you
 
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'Nigga' only exists because niggers can't pronounce their R's. Both would be used by niggers if they could pronounce their R's correctly.
 
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When regarding whether it would be best to define the N-Word as its plain form, "nigger", its derivation, "nigga", or simply a blanket for either word, I would say it'd be best described as a blanket for either of the two. As imprecise as this is, it's simply a consequence of constantly shifting language.

There is a massive rant I developed for this that I decided to see through out of sunk cost.

Some time ago I actually did think a bit about the difference between "nigga" and "nigger". Not so much the origin of the phonetic deviation, which would be redundant to touch on given the existing posts, but rather the actual connotative meaning that the word "nigga" itself can carry.
In the context of its being used, calling someone a nigga could either imply a sense of cordiality or endearment - ingroup usage - or otherwise imply a sense of otherness and contempt - outgroup usage. For instance, there is a stark contrast between these two sentences:

"Yeah, he's the nigga for real. That's my nigga right there!"
"This nigga's so retarded. Niggas really out here breaking into a free condom dispenser."

Not that this is something unique to the word, as there are many other words that likewise carry both positive and negative connotations based on their use. It's an important attribute to consider in this discussion, however, and the fact that it's rooted from a period of severe racial divide makes it stand out compared to words such as "pal", "motherfucker", and so on, which could substitute the word "nigga" in certain contexts.

The adoption of the word "nigga" into African American vernacular has been seen by some as a reclaiming of the word, shifting it from one of sheer contempt into one of an almost fraternal connection with each other, yet paradoxically it still remains as a means of distancing one's self from others, even in his own race. No clearer example of this could be made than Chris Rock's skit, "Niggas vs. Black People", which ripped straight into the critiques to be had on the culture pervading the black community at the time, and frankly still holds up today.

By this point, not only is the word "nigger" reviled solely for the racial hatred it brings with it, the word "nigga", considering its adoption by and for black people, coupled with the history of that which precedes it, has been expected to be used near exclusively by the same racial group. Despite the drastic difference in intent between a white person calling someone a nigger versus off-handedly throwing "nigga" into a sentence, it would still remain that this individual, being outside the race that has been deemed the right to use it, is still crossing a major taboo.

This still leaves the matter of the polarity between "nigga" in the fraternal vs. "nigga" in otherization, but I don't feel like spending any more time rambling on this shit than I already did
 
Why do blacks say ax instead of ask? Every hoodrat I ever met was incapable of saying ask.
 
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