Does that phrase mean the same as “Give your balls a tug”?

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      11 hours ago

      You all know they meant a subset of English and weren’t using it as a derogatory term.

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      Ok. I see what you’re doing. Nice try, but I don’t believe any person that speaks what I would consider a “sub-language” any lesser or pronouncedly different beyond region adaptations from around the world.

      You can continue to make me look racist, but my first statement had nothing to do with race, culture, or religion. So trying to create a narrative to portray me that way is redundant and asinine

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        14 hours ago

        Then maybe pick a prefix that isn’t synonymous with “beneath/lower” if that’s the idea you’re trying to get across.

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          14 hours ago

          I’ll try to carefully use the short word for “substitute” a little better. I’d recommend learning all definitions of a word before you assume what people are saying

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            14 hours ago

            Sub- as a prefix does not mean substitute, though. The word “substitute” is made with that prefix but it doesn’t represent it any more than “submarine”.

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              14 hours ago

              So then beside what I told you, what if I meant “submarine-english”?