“Uh,” “um,” “er” and such are filler words. In Chinese, the filler word is “that,” which sounds like “nega.” <\/p>\n
See USC Suspended a Communications Professor for Saying a Chinese Word That Sounds Like a Racial Slur<\/a>. <\/p>\n This story jumped out at me because I used to give lectures to Chinese businessmen on how the American publishing industry works. I don’t know a bit of Chinese, but I kept hearing them saying this word that sounded like the dreaded “n-word.” I asked a friend who speaks Chinese about it, and he didn’t give me a very satisfying explanation. This “uh, uh” explanation makes more sense. <\/p>\n The larger issue, of course, is how incredibly insane universities have become with all this speech policing nonsense. And this is the important point. <\/p>\n There is nothing for the university to investigate: Patton should be restored to his teaching position immediately. If anything, the offended students should apologize to him<\/i> for causing the inconvenience. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Right. And not just an apology. There should be consequences for being that stupid — like getting points off their final grade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Uh,” “um,” “er” and such are filler words. In Chinese, the filler word is “that,” which sounds like “nega.” See USC Suspended a Communications Professor for Saying a Chinese Word That Sounds Like a Racial Slur. This story jumped out at me because I used to give lectures to Chinese businessmen on how the American … Continue reading ““Uh” in Chinese is “nega,” but don’t say that”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}