Oh shit we're finally having discourse over how 那个 sounds like the N-word I feel like I've been avoiding having this conversation for 30 years nowhttps://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1305522442236956677 …
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Mandarin speakers absolutely do sound like they are saying "n***a, n***a" constantly It is extremely common, it's the equivalent of "um" or "uh" ("erm" or "er" if you're British) and you'd have about as much luck banning it as banning "um" or "uh"
I kind of feel like we have to be blunt about this when talking about it because otherwise that just makes it worse when you meet a Mandarin speaker and hear it in real life for the first time
Imagine if there were a language in which "I dunno" or "it's like" or "I mean" sounded like a deeply offensive slur, and then someone from that country came here and heard us saying it all the time It's hard to think of an easy resolution to the situation
And what makes it worse is people saying blatantly untrue shit like "Oh, well, in English 'I mean' is two words, you put a pause between 'I' and 'mean', if someone says it like the racial slur 'aimeen' they're doing it on purpose"
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