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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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"
This is why people need to take foreign languages. The number six in German is pronounced "sex," this does not mean that Germans are constantly thinking about sex. I mean, they are, but not because of that.
This is also true of Swedish and Latin.
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