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If only there were some way to impose a hard cultural limit to such things, perhaps by starting an arms race in regards to the greatest thrust and penetration ratios 
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Don't be such a 那个 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54107329 "The suspension of a US university professor has ignited a debate over the use of a seemingly innocuous Chinese word. Professor Greg Patton at the University of Southern California (USC) was telling students in a communications lecture last month about filler, or pause words, such as 'err', 'umm' or 'you know' in English."
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Kharnifex posted:Don't be such a 那个 That’s pretty messed up but I’m gonna guess that it’s not pronounced Na (nah) Ge (Gee) lol I’m bad with languages but when I see it written that’s how I see it.
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MarcusSA posted:That’s pretty messed up but I’m gonna guess that it’s not pronounced Na (nah) Ge (Gee) lol Those es are pronounced like the first half of Bayou Billy's death sound in the terrible nes games 'Bayou Billy' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDuuq05TrfE If you play Bayou Billy for 5 minutes that sounds gonna get drilled in your head so it's a good way to remember
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BrainDance posted:Those es are pronounced like the first half of Bayou Billy's death sound in the terrible nes games 'Bayou Billy' So guh? The first part is still Nah? Nah Guh? Obviously I’m missing how it’s supposed to sound because from the article it definitely sounds like yeah... just seems weird how it’s written.
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Sep 11, 2020 08:01
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nah becomes nei when spoken sometimes, Here's what got him fired, he says it correctly in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M0aD78sw8U&t=26s
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Sep 11, 2020 08:03
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What a dumb innocent thing to suspend somebody over. It's not even China specific. Anybody who knows more than one language knows there are crossovers. What a bunch of idiots in the USC faculty. gently caress the Wumaos trying to make it a China thing.
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Sep 11, 2020 08:07
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BrainDance posted:nah becomes nei when spoken sometimes, It’s probably because I know what he’s saying but it sounds like ne-ga and even the transcript on the side of the video is saying the same thing. Seems like a weird thing to get fired for especially since the transcript is showing the word.  Obviously it’s something people should be aware that Chinese people say commonly since as the article pointed out it’s caused issues in the past. Weird.
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Sep 11, 2020 08:08
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I'm not sure more people being aware is going to help it. The response from the dean was like 'the professor used this Chinese word' then immediately jumped to a thing about vile language and horrible words etc etc. So he is aware, it's not a misunderstanding. Which is a very weird way to go about it in a country with no official language, giving preference to the meaning of a sound in English at the expense of other languages, especially at a school with students who speak that as their native language. It's like language supremacy or something. To me, personally, and the way I think of racism, the schools response is what's racist. The dean there now got his job after the last dean was pushed out after a racism scandal I think. So that's probably a part of it.
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I was more speaking about the professor using the word and explaining its meaning to the students so that they would be aware of its meaning when speaking to audiences in other languages. Obviously this didn’t work though lol.
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im p sure everyone who goes to china has the "why the gently caress do they keep saying the n word into their phones" moment Anyway the university's reaction is absurd hakimashou fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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Sep 11, 2020 09:45
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or, a moment of gee i wish the in laws would stop having trouble finding their words amongst each other while guestering off in a direction that happens to be where a black family is seated at the restaurant last year
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Sep 11, 2020 09:49
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The University is backpedaling and trying to claim he's not suspended, but the whole thing is stupid because the dean implied that the Chinese word was itself hateful and it's like gently caress you.
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Sep 11, 2020 10:32
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I have definitely witnessed a foreigner in China saying it to be deliberately edgy.
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Kharnifex posted:Don't be such a 那个 Just wait till they lose their mind hearing someone talking about other people’s siblings in a conversation and says “Your older brother”. nong fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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MarcusSA posted:
You have a bunch of college kids who are having an online competition to be the "most woke", and stuff like this goes viral quick given the media climate. Any university would do the same to avoid looking racist and having a massive protest on their campus to fire the prof.
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Sep 11, 2020 14:15
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To get back to Tzi Ma chat, I'm listening to him on Leonard Maltin's podcast and he has a real New Yawk accent. I guess I've never heard his real accent before.
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Sep 11, 2020 14:23
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hah yeah when i was in china for the first time on semester abroad i asked the teacher on the first night why everyone was going around repeating the n-word over and over
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Speaking of language crossovers... https://i.imgur.com/QpiwCiW.gifv
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Blistex posted:You have a bunch of college kids who are having an online competition to be the "most woke", and stuff like this goes viral quick given the media climate. Any university would do the same to avoid looking racist and having a massive protest on their campus to fire the prof. Photography professors hurrying to update their materials before they get to the section on Photoshop and the technique of "crushing the blacks".
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Sep 11, 2020 15:35
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Pham Nuwen posted:Photography professors hurrying to update their materials before they get to the section on Photoshop and the technique of "crushing the blacks". 
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Pham Nuwen posted:Photography professors hurrying to update their materials before they get to the section on Photoshop and the technique of "crushing the blacks". Geography professors accidentally leaving the name of Niger off the map. Also I hope they don't find out what the Spanish word for black is.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:24
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well I live right next to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negros_Island
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hakimashou posted:im p sure everyone who goes to china has the "why the gently caress do they keep saying the n word into their phones" moment Yeah. I told students heading to the US about it, you can't expect everyone to be aware that it isn't the n word just around in public, but uh. Lol at that university.
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Sep 11, 2020 18:11
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Guy Axlerod posted:Also I hope they don't find out what the Spanish word for black is. linguistics professor fired for teaching Latin roots
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Sep 11, 2020 19:31
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for anyone who doesn't know, in chinese 'that' 那个 is pronounced either 'na ge' or 'nei ge'. and people tend to say it over and over to fill time like saying 'umm' or 'like'. and as someone mentioned 'your brother' 你哥 is 'ni ge' one of those odd things when you don't know what's going on but not a big deal
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Guy Axlerod posted:Geography professors accidentally leaving the name of Niger off the map. 
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poe's
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poe's this https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/689501187191734283/754122714289012806/1599862662747.webm
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Wait, Xi is Kratos?
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It doesn’t even have be a foreign word that sounds like a slur to get you in trouble.Wikipedia posted:David Howard incident
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HerStuddMuffin posted:It doesn’t even have be a foreign word that sounds like a slur to get you in trouble. honestly, just retire niggardly. stingy works just fine.
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Sep 12, 2020 05:15
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More people know that word because of its resemblance than any other way.
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Sep 12, 2020 05:17
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oohhboy posted:What a dumb innocent thing to suspend somebody over. It's not even China specific. Anybody who knows more than one language knows there are crossovers. What a bunch of idiots in the USC faculty. Korean is famous for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNkpdRF0OFI&t=94s Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Sep 12, 2020 |
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Sep 12, 2020 05:23
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Quote is not edit.
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Dont Touch ME posted:poe's this lol, this is great
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Every Chinese diplomatic board doing any kind of PR with the english-speaking west should have at least 1 fluent English speaker on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident#Letter_of_the_two_sorries quote:The "Letter of the two sorries"[28] was the letter delivered by the United States Ambassador Joseph Prueher to Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan of the People's Republic of China to defuse the incident. The delivery of the letter led to the release of the U.S. crew from Chinese custody, as well as the eventual return of the disassembled aircraft.[20] Also, lol quote:The United States stated that it was "not a letter of apology," as some state-run Chinese media outlets characterized it at the time, but "an expression of regret and sorrow".[2]
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 that event was totally the Chinese pilot fault, dude thought he was top gun. The recon pilot is an absolute boss.The Chinese has both recorders and refuses to release them which tells you everything. wutquote:In addition to paying for the dismantling and shipping of the EP-3, the United States paid for the 11 days of food and lodging supplied by the Chinese government to the aircraft's crew, in the amount of $34,567.89.[38] The Chinese had demanded one million dollars compensation from the U.S. for the lost J-8 and their pilot, but this was declined and no further negotiations were held.
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BrainDance posted:Luonan county, border of Shaanxi and Henan. I dropped a pin in Luonan on google maps because I wanted to see how rural the area looked and this dude was just taking a picture of the person who took the panorama lol. Is that this Beijing bikini with trench-coat? 
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CHINA!
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