I've gotten heat for saying this in the past, but the "student" community of certain academic departments are almost looking to be offended at anything these days.
The perils of social media and cancel culture...
Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
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Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
#62So in Korean, the word for "you" is 니가 (pronounced "nee-gah"). Example usage: 니가 언제 먹었어요? (When did you eat? "Nee-gah un-jeh mug-uss-uh-yo") I can't help but wonder if the use of this word would also elicit a similar reaction... EDIT: I briefly forgot this, but there is a similar Korean word "내가" which is "me" or "I", and pronounced "ne-gah". Example usage: 내가 이 밥을 먹었어요. (I ate this food. "Ne-ga ee bap-uhl mug-uss-uh…
"You" and "me" are pronunced "nee-gah" and "ne-gah"? Those sound very similar, does that ever lead to misunderstandings?
In Korean, the vowels ㅣ (ee sound) and ㅐ (eh sound) are different in the written language. There are actually more difficult things such as ㅐ and ㅔ (both "eh" sound) which can get confusing when trying to spell Korean words. In practice, I personally don't get confused differentiating between "nee-gah" and "ne-gah", but that may have been due to me having Korean parents and being used to that terminology since birth.
Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
#63I heard nega (as in negative), not niga (as in shenanigan), are my ears off?
Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
#64So in Korean, the word for "you" is 니가 (pronounced "nee-gah"). Example usage: 니가 언제 먹었어요? (When did you eat? "Nee-gah un-jeh mug-uss-uh-yo") I can't help but wonder if the use of this word would also elicit a similar reaction... EDIT: I briefly forgot this, but there is a similar Korean word "내가" which is "me" or "I", and pronounced "ne-gah". Example usage: 내가 이 밥을 먹었어요. (I ate this food. "Ne-ga ee bap-uhl mug-uss-uh…
"You" and "me" are pronunced "nee-gah" and "ne-gah"? Those sound very similar, does that ever lead to misunderstandings?
I just popped 'em both into Google Translate to have the machine pronounce them for me.
I speak no Korean at all, but had no trouble telling them apart. Speakers of the language will undoubtedly be more competent than me.
https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto...
Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
#65It says it means "That one" in Google translate? What's up with this?
Yes. The lecture was on filler words, if I understand correctly, and Chinese use this word as "uhm" in English. There is of course no issue at all.
It's especially bad that this gets pulled up on a lecture about filter words.
If you listen to any native Mandarin speakers for more than 5 minutes you'll likely hear this word. If anything, being educated of it's existence allows you to recognize it as a legit word used in every Mandarin and not freak out when you hear Chinese people talking and think they're talking smack about black people.
This whole thing is just silly.
Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
#66I just watched the video after reading the article, and the video -- if it's of the incident to which people were objecting -- wasn't as cringey as I expected it to be; however , I would've hoped that an expert who was lecturing about language and culture would've anticipated the problem, and been more sensitive to it. Maybe, if he saw the problem, he could've prefaced the example with warning, or otherwise acknowled…
I think you need to be developmentally disabled to genuinely think that foreign language words that resemble curses in your language are offensive. It's not on the professor to do backflips to protect against people looking for excuses to get offended.
Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
#67Everyone knows you cant say shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits, and 那个.
Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
#68Lmao. I go to school with a lot of mandarin speakers (CU) and it’s fun to see non-Chinese-speaker’s ears perk up when they hear something so close to a racial slur. I made a joke about this exact scenario years ago.
> Lmao. I go to school with a lot of mandarin speakers (CU) and it’s fun to see non-Chinese-speaker’s ears perk up when they hear something so close to a racial slur.
Don't tar all non-Chinese speakers with the same brush. As far as I can tell, this is a purely American phenomenon. No other country is so addicted to taking offense that foreign languages are now danger zones.
Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
#69So in Korean, the word for "you" is 니가 (pronounced "nee-gah"). Example usage: 니가 언제 먹었어요? (When did you eat? "Nee-gah un-jeh mug-uss-uh-yo") I can't help but wonder if the use of this word would also elicit a similar reaction... EDIT: I briefly forgot this, but there is a similar Korean word "내가" which is "me" or "I", and pronounced "ne-gah". Example usage: 내가 이 밥을 먹었어요. (I ate this food. "Ne-ga ee bap-uhl mug-uss-uh…
Oof, we better fire all Korean professors. /s
Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge
#70The video: https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/130151642427657830...
it's also embedded in TFA