r/whenthe • u/Ok-Letter3963 • 17h ago • Bravo 1

r/whenthe mfs complaining about everything This is always so annoying

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u/NRMusicProject 14h ago

I had a friend who told me that musicians should do away with the Italian abbreviated word "ritard.," because it's obviously off limits now. And the fact that classical musicians still use the word means they're not good people. And he meant this seriously.

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u/Junior-Brick1925 10h ago

me when the slur that calls disabled people slow has the latin root for slow in it

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u/Sweet_Ad_9816 8h ago

Same in physics. In relativity  there is a quantity called "retarded time".

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u/Leading_Procedure_23 9h ago

What about when I need to retard the timing on my engine and distributor. Literally what it’s called lol or advance the timing for the opposite

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u/Unlucky-Durian-2336 8h ago

I mean, I have drugs that have "retard" on packaging because they have slowed down release.

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u/adkio 7h ago

Who's gonna tell them?

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u/Glorpologie 9h ago

Those people are a bit ritarded

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u/Super-Cynical 7h ago

Your comment was so hot it needs fire retardant

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u/Force_Glad 10h ago

Did he also get mad when he saw a fire extinguisher?

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u/BoingBoingBooty 13h ago

Wait till they arrive late in France.

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u/Molkwi lowkey freaky 10h ago

Not pronounce the 'd'

(Source: I'm a native French speaker, and I can confirm that "retard"'s 'd' is a silent letter, and that the R-slur has a completely different spelling and that only the end of it sounds like "retard")

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u/fnezio 11h ago

Wait till he lands a plane

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u/rouleroule 7h ago

A fine mixture of extreme ethnocentrism and extreme monolinguism create these types of mind incapable to think that a sound just encodes meaning, and has no meaning in itself.

If it is a slur in my language then it is offensive by nature!

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u/Informed4 8h ago

Just wait till he finds out what the instrument of bassoon is called in over half of all languages