Thread 214522390

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Anonymous

9/4/2025, 9:27:20 PM No.214522390 >>214522438 >>214522666

Do they consider the slang word „Polacke“ as offensive when i say it as a German? Instead of the neutral „Pole“, especially when you take into account the History of Germany and Poles being a marginalized minority?

Anonymous

9/4/2025, 9:28:30 PM No.214522438 >>214522509 >>214522666

>>214522390 (OP)
It literally just means Polish person. It’s about as offensive as Jap.

Anonymous

9/4/2025, 9:30:45 PM No.214522509

>>214522438
Well „Nigger“ also just means black person

Anonymous

9/4/2025, 9:35:16 PM No.214522666 >>214523893

>>214522390 (OP)
Polack is used specifically as an insult. >>214522438
>It’s about as offensive as Jap
Exactly, and Jap is also used as an insult. It's not about the meaning, it's about the context and intent.

For example in Poland, the pejorative way of calling a German is "Szwab", even though literally it just means a Swabian

Anonymous

9/4/2025, 10:07:14 PM No.214523893 >>214524265

>>214522666
The fuck did the Suebi do to?
It seems that everyone uses their name as an offensive term

Anonymous

9/4/2025, 10:18:02 PM No.214524265

>>214523893
I'm not sure, I'm digging around for the source of the word right now, and apparently the word was already equivalent to a cheat, fraud or a crook according to an early XVIII century dictionary. So it must have been some really old issue.
I had no idea other languages also use that as a pejorative term, what other countries do that?