• Valmond@lemmy.world
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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