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Pronouncing it like chonking as anti-racist praxis
chonking
isn't that the subreddit where people think abusing cats is funny?
It's a thyroid issue, sweaty
sorry tankies but Wade-Giles is the anti-racist option
Very bold post
every time i say the city name i gotta do the "im not racist, but" thing because of the woke left
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?
It’s to bypass slur filters 😔
The actual answer is that they represent different sounds in Chinese: ‘ch’ represents a voiceless aspirated retroflex affricate and ‘q’ is a voiceless aspirated alveo-palatal affricate; basically ‘ch’ is made with the tip of the tongue more towards the roof of the mouth and ‘q’ with the middle of the tongue raised like you’re saying a “y” sound. But to English speakers they both kinda sound like “ch”
Thanks for a thoughtful response. I love learning :)
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Why is Chongqing racist
It’s not actually racist, it’s just a joke about how the name ‘Chongqing’ sounds kind of like a common racist way of mocking the Chinese language in English, and implying that the city was named with that modern, anglo-centric context in mind, when obviously that’s not the case
Okay I just never heard anything in English not my (first language)that sounds like Chongqing
That’s probably for the best tbh
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