Pronouncing it like chonking as anti-racist praxis
chonking
isnβt that the subreddit where people think abusing cats is funny?
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every time i say the city name i gotta do the βim not racist, butβ thing because of the woke left
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Why is the same sound spelled with a ch at the front and a q in the middle? Is this a weird quirk of transliteration?
Itβs to bypass slur filters π
The actual answer is that they represent different sounds in Chinese: βchβ represents a voiceless aspirated retroflex affricate and βqβ is a voiceless aspirated alveo-palatal affricate; basically βchβ is made with the tip of the tongue more towards the roof of the mouth and βqβ with the middle of the tongue raised like youβre saying a βyβ sound. But to English speakers they both kinda sound like βchβ