Talk:injun

Latest comment: 4 years ago by -sche in topic Etymology

Pejorative?

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Is this pejorative? Or is it created because Indian is thought of as offensive? Thanks 81.68.255.36 13:50, 8 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

If Indian is considered at least disrespectful of Native Americans, then this is certainly pejorative when used by someone for whom this is not the normal pronunciation of (deprecated template usage) Indian. DCDuring TALK 00:05, 6 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Capital letter

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Shouldn’t this be capitalised like Indian? --Lundgren8 (t · c) 19:58, 24 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Etymology

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Wehr does its -u- come from in this one? Taken as the one in Cajun? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:37, 21 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Maybe, but it could also be unrelated eye dialect, as found in chillun, relijun. — Ungoliant (falai) 01:50, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, I would (and will) weaken our etymology to merely "compare Cajun", pending a reference stating Cajun (in particular) specifically influenced this word. -jun just a general way of re-spelling (a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of) that sequence of sounds (-dian); one also sees e.g. Canajun. - -sche (discuss) 09:05, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
@-sche: then does -jun deserve an entry as a productive (nonstandard) suffix? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:33, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
No more so than -dian. It's a way of respelling those sounds/those letters, not a suffix, like respelling s as sh when jocularly representing Sean Connery's speech (and others'), or as th when representng a lisp. (Arguably, we might should note those two thngs on s, since we have an entry on s, unlike one on -dian...) - -sche (discuss) 16:00, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply