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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Arthur Chu Retweeted The Daily Show
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 …
Arthur Chu added,
"just a thinking word" isn't the discourse, it's a dodgy comedy sketch which without explaining 这个/那个 =this/that just makes Chinese sound like assholes...again.
He literally says it's the word for "that" right at the beginning
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without breaking down that contrast it sounds considerably worse - not even 1 word technically. Perhaps you're finding the sketch more sympathetic to Chinese, I found it gratuitous rather than informative, Trevor Noah ain't no cultural relations panacea.https://twitter.com/wash_cloth/status/1266584927530897408?s=20 …
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I don't know what there is to "break down", it's the Chinese word for "that" and it's a common conversational filler word, I don't know how the sketch could make that any clearer than it is
IDK then, given Sino/US cultural relations are at an all time low, you've got a racist president clanging on about the China virus, I guess that's what's passing for discourse there atm. It'd probably be subject to media complaint here so please excuse my humourlessness.
The whole point of the sketch is that the word greatly predates the American racist slur
were it designed to inform it could be broken down into respective characters, providing alternative examples using那/这 to downplay the gratuity, as well as emphasizing the difference in pronunciation with the pejorative, that otoh just feels like an excuse to 'be a bit naughty'
It's talking about an ongoing controversy where a professor at USC was suspended for using the word and downplaying the fact that the word obviously very much does sound like the N-word in practice would just be lying
Like it sounds like you're saying a "good" version of this sketch would've made Trevor's character come off as a bad guy making things up to get offended by, and that would, in fact, be a terrible idea
I don't think there's a "good" version of that sketch tbh - over here there's a few Māori words using 'whaka' which sounds similar to 'fucker', we've essentially been socialised to respect that kind of linguistic difference rather than exploit it as English-centric comedy fodder.
It's not "comedy fodder" it's commentary on a news story, a professor really did get suspended over this issue
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