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One more recent example of this: a professor of Chinese uses the Chinese word 那个 (nage) in a lecture on Chinese, and is promptly suspended because somebody thou
by Clewza313 6y ago
One more recent example of this: a professor of Chinese uses the Chinese word 那个 (nage) in a lecture on Chinese, and is promptly suspended because somebody thought it sounded like the English N-word.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-suspended-saying-chinese-word-sounds-english-slur https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus...
- weinzierl 6y agoAnother instance is the alleged ban on a Dutch person using the word "Die", which simply means "that" in Dutch [1]. However, I think, these two cases are different in nature from what is described in the column. On one hand the real meaning is lost in translation which results in a misunderstanding. On the other hand we have a word used in a meta context. The second case is much more dangerous. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26062189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26062189
- ghgdynb1 6y agoI would be willing to accept a huge discount in prestige to avoid an environment like that at USC, if I were choosing colleges again. If many people feel as I do, USC will either have to cancel its cultural revolution or fade into insignificance.