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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by chitowneats on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:23PM (#32246275)
Yeah, and you used it in a way that made it sound derogatory.

"Creole bullshit"

I expect the Yankees and the city folk to do this unintentionally, but not one of our own.

I have never lived in Silicon Valley.

My parents are from N'awlins (New Orleans, Louisiana).

Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by andyferris on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:04PM (#32246483)
What was said is it sounds like bullshit spouted by investors in a pidgin language they made up. Derogatory intent seems doubtful.

TIL creole can be a trigger word. I've only heard it used as "a creole language" and have never even heard anyone use the word relating to its original meaning (though I was vaguely aware of it). Personally, I'm more likely to use the word "creole" than "pidgin language", not sure about others though.

Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by chitowneats on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:11PM (#32246506)
Creole itself is not a trigger word.

Considering it as a poster-child or general term for "bastard", "degenerate", "inbred", or "made-up" way of speaking is the issue.

That was the sense I got from the original comment.

Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by tomlin on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @09:23AM (#32250093)
Yeah, except no one said that except you. "your sense" and my own words aren't the same, clearly. All of the words you just used to describe "creole" weren't even on my radar. Didn't even know it was a thing. Take a rest, guy.

Also, all languages are "made up".

Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by msbarnett on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:19PM (#32255375)
> Yeah, and you used it in a way that made it sound derogatory.

> "Creole bullshit"

They didn't write that it sounds like "creole bullshit", they wrote that it sounds like "investor creole language bullshit" ie) bullshit in an investor creole language ie) investors saying bullshit in a language consisting of words which mean one thing in English but which have a different meaning in the language the investors are speaking.

You've clearly totally misinterpreted the original post due to an unfamiliarity with the linguistics term "creole language", a term which does not even derive from the Creole peoples of Louisiana (although both the people and the term share a common French root).