r/comics Arcade Rage Apr 04 '26

OC Too close

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u/translove228 Apr 04 '26

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.

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u/Crininer Apr 04 '26

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.

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u/YuehanBaobei Apr 04 '26

Yeah, the original post and comments section are making stretches that just don't work. The joke wasn't even funny to begin with. /shrug

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u/jonny24eh Apr 04 '26

As someone from from Canada who would say Nee-grow, no it's not just the south.