USC Suspended a Communications Professor
for Saying a Chinese Word
That Sounds Like a Racial Slur
Posted By: mrdj, 9/3/2020 10:03:36 PM
Greg Patton is a professor of clinical business communication at the University of Southern California. During a recent virtual classroom session, he was discussing public speaking patterns and the filler words that people use to space out their ideas: um, er, etc. Patton mentioned that the Chinese often use a word that is pronounced like nega. "In China the common word is 'that, that that that,' so in China it might be 'nega, nega, nega, nega,'" Patton explained to his class. "So there's different words you'll hear in different cultures, but they're vocal disfluencies."
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USC Suspended a Communications Professor
for Saying a Chinese Word
That Sounds Like a Racial Slur 9 replies
for Saying a Chinese Word
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Greg Patton is a professor of clinical business communication at the University of Southern California. During a recent virtual classroom session, he was discussing public speaking patterns and the filler words that people use to space out their ideas: um, er, etc. Patton mentioned that the Chinese often use a word that is pronounced like nega.
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Campaign collusion? 24 replies
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The inmates are running the asylum.