"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.
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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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Replying to @ceehax
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
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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.
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Replying to @ceehax
The whole point of the sketch is that the word greatly predates the American racist slur
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Replying to @arthur_affect
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'
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Replying to @ceehax
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
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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
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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.
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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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whereas I see the outcome of that sketch; more whiteys feeling brazen enough to racistly exploit that interchangeability and excuse it as "I was just speaking some Chinese". Needs a deeper dive, as you did in your thread. "i'm a little worked up right now" is defo comedy fodder
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