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Pronouncing it like chonking as anti-racist praxis

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chonking

isn’t that the subreddit where people think abusing cats is funny?

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It’s a thyroid issue, sweaty

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sorry tankies but Wade-Giles is the anti-racist option

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Very bold post

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every time i say the city name i gotta do the β€œim not racist, but” thing because of the woke left

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Delete this

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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?

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It’s to bypass slur filters πŸ˜”

The actual answer is that they represent different sounds in Chinese: β€˜ch’ represents a voiceless aspirated retroflex affricate and β€˜q’ is a voiceless aspirated alveo-palatal affricate; basically β€˜ch’ is made with the tip of the tongue more towards the roof of the mouth and β€˜q’ with the middle of the tongue raised like you’re saying a β€œy” sound. But to English speakers they both kinda sound like β€œch”

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5 points

Thanks for a thoughtful response. I love learning :)

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Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who’s been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?


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Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get better worse material bozo

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