"Nigga" untrademarkable?

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:25 AM -0500 3/16/06, Wilson Gray wrote:
>FWIW, I've heard "nigger" pronounced as [nIgr] by only one black person in
>my entire life. It gave me the same creeps that hearing it pronounced by a
>white person would have.

Would this include mention as opposed to use, e.g. if the black
person X is reporting that some (non-black) Y had just called X (or
Z) a [nIgr]?  Just wondering...

LH

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