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Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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Post by koheripbal »

wwwhizz wrote: post #69
seodisparate wrote: post #29

So 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

Asian's receive an enormous amount of hate from the African American community.

...so I would not be surprised to see that at some point happen at a real university.

At RPI, the number of Asian professors and students plummeted after Shirley Ann Jackson took over.

Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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Post by koheripbal »

gatvol wrote: post #28

Again, context is everything. What an utterly spineless, pathetic response from a risk averse management type - to throw their colleague under the bus.

Cancel culture is just getting started. What began on Twitter has been moving into HR departments and school administrations around the country.

Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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Post by DC-3 »

Symbiote wrote: post #197
DC-3 wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The exercises I am doing are using spaced repetition tools for vocabulary and listening, using textbooks for fine-tuning grammar and pronunciation, and as a writing exercise that's more fun than translating fourteen-thousand different variations on 'the red cat ate a quick mouse', I have just begun attempting to translate the classic children's novel Moonfleet into Danish. Some good resources: Spaced Repetition * Duo…

Good luck! This is more effort than most European immigrants put in. You will probably need a native speaker to help your pronunciation, especially for the 42 vowels, and the soft D, and stød. For my first year studying Danish in Denmark, I could only speak "foreigner Danish" -- the bad accent that, somehow, other foreigners seem to understand (perhaps because we have a limited vocabulary) but which causes Danes to l…

Thanks for the encouragement. I think my soft d is pretty good but I'm definitely a beginner with regards to the vowels and the stød. It's all part of the challenge, though :-)

Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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Post by Yetanfou »

koheripbal wrote: post #201
wwwhizz wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oof, we better fire all Korean professors. /s

Asian's receive an enormous amount of hate from the African American community. ...so I would not be surprised to see that at some point happen at a real university. At RPI, the number of Asian professors and students plummeted after Shirley Ann Jackson took over.

I wonder how those who want to find the cause of their failure in other people's success eventually deal with the fact that Nigerian immigrants into the USA are far more successful compared to African Americans while they are visually indistinguishable from them. Will the Nigerians be accused of having some form of privilege? Will they be called 'white' just like Asians are now often considered to be 'white'? Will saner minds prevail, find the reasons for their success and emulate these so they end up on the same level?

Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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Post by arkadiytehgraet »

edanm wrote: post #196
arkadiytehgraet wrote: post #162

You can see the same happening here, on HN: this post has been literally hidden from the main page - you won't find it among first 150 entries, despite having relatively high score and number of comments. I guess moderators hope that if they pretend something does not exist, maybe it will go away.

Please don't make speculations like that about HN. I'm pretty sure it's against the rules, and even if it isn't, it doesn't foster good discussions. You can't always know what is the reason a story is or isn't on the front page. For the record, at the moment, this story is the top story on https://news.ycombinator.com/active , which is the main way I personally view HN. So I doubt it's being actively hidden.

Please do not be that condescending towards me or towards anyone else on HN.

I am glad that using obscure viewing option, literally absent from anywhere in the interface, works for you. However, majority of people are using HN via default https://news.ycombinator.com/, and this story is missing from there completely.

Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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Post by anthk »

nix23 wrote: post #161
ianleeclark wrote: post #150

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> That's not the problem, the problem is that a Student should NOT be a Customer but a Student. Then OP shouldn't point to some amorphous blob of "marxists," just because they're an easy enemy.

True, i hate it when someone thinks Marx wanted the real-world communism of the USSR, his ideas where in fact the opposite. The Communist Party of the USSR where nothing else then the Czarist regime under a different flag, now Russia is a 'Democracy' and again has a Czar.

>The Communist Party of the USSR where nothing else then the Czarist regime

Some should explain to your parent commenter that Stalin itself grew up under a conservative Church like seminarium, under the influence of the Orthodox Church.

In essence, Stalin converted a socialist regime to another one under Neo-tsarism with a bureaucratic state.

Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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Post by anthk »

nix23 wrote: post #140
__blockcipher__ wrote: post #129

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>But why are the students like that in the first place Show their might over others probably. Please leave Marx alone, he was the guy that spoke against the royalty and for a fair system. Lenin and Stalin of course is a complete different thing.

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Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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Post by anthk »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #93
foepys wrote: post #44

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Also with sexuality. My worry is that with the American cultural imperialism through Hollywood our European liberal approach to sexuality will become more puritanical. E.g. sex only after 18, teenage sex is more or less illegal (19y/o with a 17y/o). Friends of mine already think that American laws around sexuality are valid worldwide and sex with an under-18 is forbidden. Which is absolutely false in the case of Germ…

It's only crazy conservative states like California with the strict age cutoffs.

>conservative

>California

Hollywood told us otherwise to Europeans, them.

Re: Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge

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Post by anthk »

Yetanfou wrote: post #205
koheripbal wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asian's receive an enormous amount of hate from the African American community. ...so I would not be surprised to see that at some point happen at a real university. At RPI, the number of Asian professors and students plummeted after Shirley Ann Jackson took over.

I wonder how those who want to find the cause of their failure in other people's success eventually deal with the fact that Nigerian immigrants into the USA are far more successful compared to African Americans while they are visually indistinguishable from them. Will the Nigerians be accused of having some form of privilege? Will they be called 'white' just like Asians are now often considered to be 'white'? Will sa…

>Nigerian immigrants into the USA

Nigerian inmigrants travelled an ocean, for sure they have money and a huge set of values, and they are not afraid at all of either racists or potential disadvantages. They had it worse in Nigeria.

Here in Spain the Nigerians are seen as hard workers with an incredible spirit of superation.

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