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It says it means "That one" in Google translate? What's up with this?
by teekert 6y ago
It says it means "That one" in Google translate? What's up with this?
- shadow28 6y agoIt's pronounced "nega"
- edmundhuber 6y agoIt basically sounds like "n*gga" when said fast.
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- chenzhekl 6y agoThe ponounciation of "那个" in Chinese is similar to "nigger", which makes some students unhappy.
- ipsum2 6y agoOne note - there's no hard r in 那个 unless you're speaking a Beijing dialect. In that case there's hard r's (儿) after basically every word. Edit: TIL there's a Wikipedia article dedicated to the "r after every word" in Beijing dialect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhua
- nmfisher 6y ago那个 doesn't have a hard r in the Beijing dialect either. Source: lived in Beijing for 5 years & wife is from Beijing.
- binwang 6y agocan second this. I am a Chinese who lived in Beijing for 10 years. No one would pronounce a hard r after 那个
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoBlack Americans don't pronounce the R either. Donald Glover has a funny bit about learning how to say it right due to his strict upbringing.
- est 6y agoA while a go there was meme on reddit called "nae nae", a Chinese song repeatedly singing "that one that one" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTkNFnDcPLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTkNFnDcPLA
- Symbiote 6y agoThe whole song: http://baike.baidu.com/l/DQeulhMm http://baike.baidu.com/l/DQeulhMm
- messe 6y agoRomanised it’s “nà ge“. According to the linked article it was deemed too similar to a racial slur.
- ipsum2 6y agoThere's two ways of pronouncing it, both acceptable in Mandarin. In English they would be something like: "naugh guh" and "neigh guh". The latter pronunciation is the one under discussion.
- feanaro 6y agoI assume it's because the pronunciation sounds a bit like "nigga", though not really.
- mytailorisrich 6y agoYes. 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.
- nullsense 6y agoIt'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.
- prawn 6y agoI remember noticing in China that it seemed very common in Chinese casual chitchat, but to Western ears it sounded inappropriate. In the context of a lecture, I imagine it would come down to whether the delivery seemed genuinely part of the point or an excuse to push boundaries. Hard to gauge without audio/tone. I can’t think of why you’d report this unless you had a serious issue with the lecturer or they were being purposefully inappropriate.
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- ipsum2 6y agoSomeone linked a video above: https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/1301516424276578305 https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/130151642427657830...
- robjan 6y agoIt's just a filler word even though it can be literally translated as "that one", as you said.
- Cro_on 6y ago那（nà,that）个（gè,one）。 Also 'umm, uh, like, so'. English has the same thing, for example when you can't think of a word and just start with 'that, those'. 'Eh, what's that.. that, uh, the name of that function?' It's pretty easy to mishear it, but 99% of the time you can see from the context that they're not just wildly dropping n-bombs..
- juiyout 6y agoIf Ne-ga is followed by other nouns, it becomes more like "that.....that...tha..." or "the...the...the"