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PurpleOutsider posted...

https://youtu.be/Oq5zmyRA92A?si=q5DScSgYVvPKT9do

If anybody is confused, here's an example of that pronunciation being referred to by that term. Though it is Maya Rudolph who pronounces it like that.

dave_is_slick posted...

What do you mean "sort of", it's clear as day.

Actually I think I get it now that I've seen it exemplified in that video. If I understand correctly, 'the hard R' is another way of saying 'the n-word'. This might be super obvious to some of you, but not others because:

BabyDahl posted...

The problem is that in order to believe it was indeed intentionally racist, you'd have to assume that the largely Korean/Japanese/etc. developers employed by Sony were trying to insert this very western/American racist dog whistle into their video game. Because, you know... the entire world views race relations through an American lens. Duh.

American and other first-language English speakers knowing what the "hard r" means? Yeah, of course most of us get it. But the developers of this game? C'mon. I highly doubt they just wanted to get a kick out of inserting implied bigoted language into their game.

Now, should it have been changed? I really don't care. To me, the game never looked interesting enough to buy in the first place.

Personally, I still think 'hard R' is kind of an odd way to describe it and 'hard N' would make more sense, but I guess it's an American/English-speaking culture thing that just happened to develop that way. Same way how the expression "The end...or is it?" makes no sense to me, as it actually means "The end...or isn't it (the end)?"

I'm probably making no sense and CE will just end up calling me a troll or something, but hopefully a few people will get what I'm trying to say and that I don't mean to cause any offense. It's just that I honestly never encountered the phrase 'hard R' before, so I had no clue what all the fuss was about. I do now.