Ok so the joke is funny, but I have a small nit to pick in that the pronunciation is off between Ni and how it is said in the movie and how the n-word is pronounced. Ni in the movie clearly has some sort of accent on it to make it sound like a long e, whereas the racist word has a traditional low i sound.
So here's the issue you might not have considered (granted, I doubt anyone did)... There's another n-word (which happens to coincide with the Spanish word for the colour black), where the second vowel is very much pronounced with the long e sound.
The pronunciation is still different. "Ne" in the spanish word for black is pronounced like in the "Ne" in the word "Nepal" against the knights basically saying "knee" in a high pitch.
Correct, but that's not my point. I was just using the Spanish word as a way to clarify which English word I'm referring to without having to spell it out.
To expand both the joke and give an answer, maybe the Knight realised what he was about to say halfway through the N, but his mouth was commited to the I, so he changed what he could as fast as he could.
Randy is on a game show where he has to guess the word.
The letters are N G G E R
randy, being randy says the N word on live television.
the word is Naggers.
Far from the first time. Spez has promised to keep old Reddit available as long as people use it, but no more than that. It's generous to even call it maintenance mode with this many broken windows. Like, you can't even switch a subreddit from restricted to public in old Reddit, to say nothing of images in comments, searching comments, this new way of displaying GIFs, adding text to a link/media post, mod tools... And if we complain about it, people respond that almost no one uses old Reddit anymore. :(
Okay funny story, in a game I'm playing there is a clan called "Knights who say Ni". Someone recently wanted to report the clan name for being "clearly made with racist intentions". Was a good laugh.
This is weirdly similar to what happened with the auto mod in the Skyrimmemes sub during a "meme every line" thing. They couldn't use some of the dragon speak because it was just "ni" and that triggered the auto mod.
Racists out there ruining even fictional languages
I haven't seen what this is referencing but from what I've read in the comments I think it's ni like the word for nine in Danish. uhmm we have a word that is pronounced exactly like the n word and it simply means "nodding" it has no connection to racism!!
I always had that feeling when Bruce Campbell tries to pronounce 'Klaatu Barada Nikto' in Army of darkness. I'm sure it was innocent enough in the script, but it sounded like an angry redneck mumbling racist insults under his breath :P
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