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,
For the record, I'm just going to say that the first sentence here is completely false 那个 *never* has a pause between the two syllables, and pausing before 个 in any context would be extremely odd and stiltedpic.twitter.com/sJVqaq82Wk
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
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.
we learned to pronounce it like "zechs", but i guess people could still mistake it for "sex." now "fahrt" otoh, we had a giggle at that one.
Six/sex is the topic of a hacky joke in National Lampoon's European Vacation
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