[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] to N-word

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

I don't think that was the meaning intended.

I took it to mean that the singer gave the song the intonation, inflection, performance, etc. that one would expect to come from a [n-word].

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> To use the N-word profusely
> 
> "Red Sox fan's action leads to lifetime ban for man who used racial slur”
> CNN
> by Josiah Ryan
> 5 May 2017
> Video and text
> 
> http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/05/sport/red-sox-fan-reports-man-for-using-racial-slur-cnntv/ < -
> http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/05/sport/red-sox-fan-reports-man-for-using-racial-slur-cnntv/>
> Red Sox fan Calvin Hennick said, "As soon as she was done the fan sitting next to me, a white middle-aged man, said that she 'sang too long'
> and that she 'N-worded it up,…'"
> 
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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