Talk:injun

Pejorative?

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)

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)

Capital letter

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

Etymology

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

Maybe, but it could also be unrelated eye dialect, as found in chillun, relijun. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 01:50, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

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)

@-sche: then does -jun deserve an entry as a productive (nonstandard) suffix? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:33, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

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)