• SolacefromSilence@fedia.io
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    10 days ago

    Depends where you’re from. In the U.S., anyone who currently self identifies as a patriot either is a nonce or supports one.

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      10 days ago

      Isn’t a nonce some religious person in British?

      It’s also a cryptographic term for numbers used only once…

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          9 days ago

          If someone had asked me I’d said it’s derogatory, like “you fucking nonce!”, but also it’s a religious thing (not specifically pedo related 😁) but all I could find was “slang for pedo”.

          So I doubled down and here is where I went wrong:

          The Nonce apostolique is french for Nuncio in English.

          So nonce is pedo in English slang, and in french it’s a diplomatic representative of the pope.

          How appropriate!

          Cheers

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        You could say it’s often a religious person, but not all. The Catholic Church is notorious for this, but really no greater amount of nonce than other religions.