Hey FOX NEWS what is "snigger" is that what we Black people do?

Please, please, please someone get a screen capture of this headline and send it to Media Matters:

Fan Frenzy: O.J. Simpson Smiles and Sniggers From Sin City

Thursday, September 20, 2007

By Hollie McKay

From jailbird to bailbird, O.J Simpson was given the star-studded treatment Wednesday as he soared from Sin City.

The former footballer dished out $125,000 Wednesday morning to depart the dungeon and boarded US Airways flight #888 on coach class from Las Vegas to Fort Lauderdale, departing at 4:10 p.m. EDT.

However, Simpson’s wait at the airport became a fan festivity to rival his football days.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297393,00.html

not very veiled racism....even if it's 'real' word imo

of others.

Never heard the term before.

but the use of that word is definitely typical of Faux and their not-so-subtle BS.

I'm SURE the fact the 'n' word is part of that word had NOTHING to do with the choice of using it :sarcasm:

n/t

:thumbsup:

crap can pass as some kind of "coincidence" We have a massive civil rights rally happening in Jena, but faux news needs to make sure they let us all know who's really the boss.

I'll never be able to figure that one out.

but they could have used 'snicker' instead.

I'm sure their word choice is no mistake.

snig-ger
noun
1. a disrespectful laugh
verb
1. laugh quietly

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:toast:

There ARE NO 'MISTAKES' in either Fox "News" or Nazi Propaganda.

They share that.

Isn't it funny how Nazi "mistakes" only ever seemed to negatively affect the Liberals, Jews, and Gays?

Isn't it funny how Bushie "mistakes" only ever seemed to negativelyaffect the Liberals, Democrats, and Gays?

The OP is right.

anyone actually saying "snigger," having only read it, and run across it rarely in reading.

HA! Just as I thought. I just went to m-w.com because I wanted to check my hunch it's an archaic word. Look:

Main Entry: 1snig·ger
Pronunciation: \ˈsni-gər\
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): snig·gered; snig·ger·ing \-g(ə-)riŋ\
Etymology: by alteration
Date: circa 1706

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Whatever it is which moved them to use it was almost surely cheap and ugly, just what you'd expect from Fox.

who actually uses that word in conversation!

I got it from Eliza Doolittle, who asks Freddy, "Are you sniggering at me?" in "My Fair Lady" at the horse race. When a friend is laughing at something I've done, I always ask them if they are "sniggering" at me. :)

I am really shocked so many people do not realize it is an actual word --archaic, yes, but real.

I have to admit, I've never heard anyone USING it, in a serious tone, not having heard you, of course! Have seen it used in writing, however.

:D I would pay to see that version of "Taxi Driver"! :hi:

and was obviously deliberately used here by faux for a laugh/intimidation. Do you really suspect otherwise?

TlalocW

Sick minds think alike.

that's sick

Which is border on Nazi-level unreality and therefore is capable of Nazi-level atrocity.

Our nation is sick, as sure as if Lady Liberty was beaten, raped, and left for dead in the gutter on 12/12/2000, and everyone who has driven by since, rather than help, has either praised the old gal on her healthful vigor, or scream, "Get up you crazy moonbat! Nothing's wrong!"

Snigger was first attested 1706, and is a variant of "snicker." It has never had anything to do with black people.

you are correct.

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At absolute worst, perhaps latent racist tendencies subtly influenced the word choice of one writer, but that would be going way way out on a limb. Snigger is a perfectly fine word.

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Even if I were a mod, I don't really see where that's coming from.

there's been some weird ones lately, like this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3534611&mesg_id=3534611

How many people are going to equate the word with snicker and not the fact the 'n' word is painfully obvious in it?


They knew exactly what they were doing and the intent was not to teach us the meaning of a rarely used word.

http://news.google.com/news?q=snigger&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

I mean, people use it. Not as often as snicker, but it is in common use.

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It's still used in America.

maybe in Britain, but not here.

But the true meaning of that word is not the issue - it's the way they used it and I guarantee you they knew what they were doing.

They are the same people who 'mistakenly' put a (D) up by a repuke's name if that person has done something wrong.

They don't fool me for one second.

You can use either "snicker" or "snigger" in reference to a person's response to a question.

Which do you choose? I would absolutely choose "snicker" even though I'm well familiar with both terms. Clarity, appropriatemess, nothing lost in the meaning, and highly unlikely to be the least bit suspect.

So, which does Fox News Editor Kelly Rupert use? Explain your answer in detail, if you would.

It's likely most people don't really know what it means, since it ordinarily is not used.

People DO respond to VISUAL cues instinctively. We all know that, like the Cuban "exile" right-wing campaign strategist piece of crap, Alex Castellanos, when he created the visual cue, "DemocRAT" during Al Gore's Presidential campaign.



Alex "piece of crap" Castellanos

Don't EVEN try to put one over on DU'ers.

So it's your position that the word was in common use the year it was first recorded, and was only a covert racial slur ever since? I mean, I've heard some silly linguistic theories, but that one's kind of past silly.

I gave a link in which you can see dozens of uses of that word in papers in the last week. Just because the word might be useful for a secret hate campaign, that does not mean that presence of the word is evidence for a hate campaign.

You must have a lot of time on your hands.

real word, but how often is it used today? Here's a challenge for you, then. Show me just one other headline from faux where this word is used.

I am rethinking it. Coming from Fox...it does have a certain stench to it.

and support Amnesty International's campaign. It's a much better use of our time that using a microscope on a headline.

and then blame it on a keyboard malfunction. :eyes:

edit: Prima facie evidence of malfunctioning* Faux keyboards:

I believe both words, perfectly useable and descriptive are from mid or old english. Race, or human origin ar whatever are not in their lineage.

Unfortunately in todays less than literate society, words get corrupted by 'sounds' like 3-4 year old children do, or they are simply hijacked for other purposes such as 'gay', I do no forgive the homosexual community fro usurping that word, there simply is not a satisfactory replacement. Fairy was also destroyed fro common use until finally someone got cute and started using the variant 'Faere' or some such.

Anywho don't get your knickers knotted over how a word sounds, find out its meaning. In fact that is THE way to handle the ignoramouses at FOX, correct their goddam grammer for them...while pointing at them and laughing hysterically! Gair-own-tee they will not like that one eensy bit!
heheh

Please, tell us more.

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Only you did.

But, assuming you are sincere about what you meant there,
I'll tell you that we have a smiley we use here SPECIFICALLY
to avoid these type of misunderstandings: :sarcasm:


It's in the Smilies Lookup Table, and it saves a lot of hassle.

Little does the newbie know it's been done many times before--and much better.

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Yes it is a word. But I guess some of you don't get why Faux News used that particular word.

Fan Frenzy: O.J. Simpson Smiles and Sniggers From Sin City

Not so subtle on the part of the Fox headline writers. All those s's. Sniggers came (naturally?) as the solution to the headline, in need of a verb that started with S.

Don't know if that was a Freudian slip, but perhaps while pointing a finger at Fox, you should look in a mirror?

:eyes: Typical Fox.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=snigger&searchmode=none

snigger
1706, variant form of snicker (q.v.).


Of course, part of the meaning of a word is the speaker's intention. There's no reason to make a benign assumption about that.

...then MAYBE we could give Fux Noise the benefit of the doubt.

But please! How naive is it to believe then just pulled that word out of their ass? Yeah, just like the Repigs "getting it wrong" and saying "Democrat" party. As a word, it's legit. In contex, the inference is obvious.

and the earth is round

OK, the word LOOKS like an offensive word. But it's not. So we are no longer allowed to use a legitimate word when we describe a black person?

That's like the incident in DC a few years back when an aide got in trouble for using the word niggardly. Because people didn't know what it meant.

The English language is equal opportunity. Black people can snigger. And black people can act niggardly.

We can't start cutting words out of the language because they LOOK like bad words.

Good luck with that...

And in this case, we have a known propaganda outlet using an obscure work in a headline.

fuck him

I wonder if there was something intentional here.

What would such a resolution say?

I suspect since it's Faux News writing. Notice that the headline is using the literary devices called alliteration and assonance (the repeated esses and the repeated short "i" sounds).

:eyes:

went after Websters for some dictionary definition related to the word "arab" a year or two ago.

Fan Frenzy: O.J. Simpson Smiles and Smirks From Sin City

"Smirks" :rofl:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297393,00.html

:rofl:

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