Post #3929125
2026-07-19 07:07 UTC
Fedidendum: The anti-litter campaign uses the slang word for cigarettes: ’smøger’. So ’fags’, in English. I’m not sure if that’s regional slang, though, perhaps specific to European English. So I'm adding this here, for the avoidance of doubt.
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@CiaraNi@mastodon.green 2026-07-19 07:26
I'm being scolded for using the word anyway. I genuinely don't know how to decode this. If a non-slur word for one thing in one part of the world is a slur for an entirely different thing in a different part of the world, does that mean we can't use the word in the non-slur context either? https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/116945378971470701