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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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625 points zdw | 1 comments | 27 Sep 25 15:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.283s | source
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pixelpoet ◴[27 Sep 25 17:05 UTC] No.45397526[source]▶
Poor doggywogs :(

Edit: Wow, HN didn't like that. Nevermind, screw the dogs I guess, just toss the frozen ones over the cliff.

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mkl ◴[27 Sep 25 21:23 UTC] No.45399424[source]▶
You may want to reconsider your choice of word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
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pixelpoet ◴[27 Sep 25 21:31 UTC] No.45399485[source]▶
It's a common word in (UK, apparently) English, cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doggy_woggy

I've literally never once heard someone use the ethnic slur "wog", and I grew up in 90s South Africa :)

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1. strken ◴[28 Sep 25 10:24 UTC] No.45403240[source]▶
I'm Australian and I might be missing some nuance about other dialects, but doggy-woggy is a completely different word from doggywog. The first is standard rhyming reduplication, while the second is ambiguous but can be read as relating to a couple of different slurs (in my dialect).

I have heard people use that word, although a good chunk were using it about themselves and with pride.