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"Negre" as a term of endearment
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:12 pm
Whose families (or extended families) did this when you were growing up?
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Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:13 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
ummm.... is it pronounced how i think it is pronounced?
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:13 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
I have never heard this in my entire life.
Is this a Louisiana thing or a black thing?
Is this a Louisiana thing or a black thing?
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:14 pm to Displaced
Ignore the last two letters (re)
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:14 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
I'm in here
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:14 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
Come on now Neg, you throwing people off with the spelling.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:15 pm to WG_Dawg
quote:
Is this a Louisiana thing or a black thing?
Pretty sure it's a French Louisiana thing, though I'm not 100% sure that people in North Louisiana didn't do this as well.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:15 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
Isnt that a candy bar?
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:15 pm to Artie Rome
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Come on now Neg, you throwing people off with the spelling.
Well shite sha, whatchu want me ta do? Dass how you spell it, weh
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:16 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
When I get into a serious discussion w/ CB Jr. I bust that out on him..... he knows its serious.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:16 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
quote:
"Negre" as a term of endearment
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:17 pm to Displaced
quote:
is it pronounced how i think it is pronounced?
More like neg(rhymes with peg) ruh (rhymes with huh).
And, I did not hear it as a term of endearment. My memory of it was that it was neutral. Although I always got the term it was old fashioned - I think it used to be in the notch between the really bad word that starts with "n" and ends with "r", (rhymes with trigger) and negro, during the period of time the latter word was preferred by many of the community leaders.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:20 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
quote:This, still hear it in Vermilion Parish
Pretty sure it's a French Louisiana thing,
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:22 pm to PeepleHeppinBidness
It is..... I dont thing my PawPaw knew any of his grandsons real names.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:22 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
Used in the Mexican community as well. My wife (no pics) is Mexican and her family would call her Uncle that growing up.
Tio Negre. He was the darkest of the family.
Tio Negre. He was the darkest of the family.
This post was edited on 10/9/14 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:23 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
It was never considered a term of endearment nor was it considered an insult. It comes from the french word for black and was used as a nickname for darker colored skin people of all races. I was very close to an old black gentlemen back in the 50s and 60s whose nickname was Neg (pronounced more like Naeg). He was not offended apparently because everyone called him that until his death in the 90s. He was very dark. He and another black man had a very large effect on my view of the racial situation and how it has changed over the years.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:24 pm to Count Chocula
I was listening to a Steve Riley CD just now (as you may know, they use the word in a few of their songs in the interest of historical accuracy) and the way they present it, it means like "dude", "buddy", "friend".
Then I got to thinking about an old college friend who told me once that his uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc. often called the very young kids that name, apparently meaning the same as "sha".
Then I got to thinking about an old college friend who told me once that his uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc. often called the very young kids that name, apparently meaning the same as "sha".
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:25 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
You keep using that word and I don't think it means what you think it means.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:26 pm to Starrkevious Ringo
My Cajun grandfather used it as a term of endearment towards unrelated younger people, like the children and grandchildren of his friends.
This post was edited on 10/9/14 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:26 pm to CaptainsWafer
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You keep using that word and I don't think it means what you think it means.
See my explanation above. Apparently the meaning is all over the map.....or are the examples I cited very rare/almost unheard of, even in the old days?
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