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king
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The way I see it, if I'm referred to as 'brother' by someone I won't take much offense from it, but if someone calls me a 'monday' I'll likely destroy their jaw, although this is heavily based on the context it's used in.
Maybe it's just me, but I can't really tell how someone would pronounce the two words differently enough to distinguish them.

Maybe it's just me, but I can't really tell how someone would pronounce the two words differently enough to distinguish them.
that's because you can't and he's just looking for a reason to stuff on white people (as usual)

Maybe it's just me, but I can't really tell how someone would pronounce the two words differently enough to distinguish them.

Accent, probably. brother is pronounced "nih-guh" and monday is pronounced "nih-gurr." The R is very prominent in the latter and completely absent in the former.


Accent, probably. brother is pronounced "nih-guh" and monday is pronounced "nih-gurr." The R is very prominent in the latter and completely absent in the former.
People in almost every country besides the United States pronounce brother and monday the same way. In those cases I take context instead of pronunciation.

All of my fellow african american peers hardly ever get offended when somebody who is white refers to them as 'brother' because 99% of the time it's in a non-tribal tone of companionship rather than inferiority. In terms of monday, i've only heard it once in my life from some kid in elementary school and he was suspended for a couple days when he used it.

I live in a very liberal/diverse city so people are really respectful towards most races, ethnicities and backgrounds
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i find it funny that black people choose to use the word monday and brother despite its integrity in their past as slaves.

i find it funny that black people choose to use the word monday and brother despite its integrity in their past as slaves.
black people don't use monday anymore, and brother wasn't even coined until the midlate 70s and intended on having a somewhat different meaning

People need to get the concept out of their head that monday and brother are entirely identical, because they aren't

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con·no·ta·tion
ˌkänəˈtāSH(ə)n/
noun
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
"the word “discipline” has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression"

Since people on this website seem to have never taken an english class.

brother would have had to derive from monday, so it should have the same connotation.

brother would have had to derive from monday, so it should have the same connotation.
but it doesn't