Read the column The New York Times didn’t want you to read

Re:Read the column The New York Times didn’t want you to read by Clewza313 on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:08AM (#26112095)

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-sus...

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Re:Read the column The New York Times didn’t want you to read by weinzierl on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:09AM (#26112408)

Another 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

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Re:Read the column The New York Times didn’t want you to read by ghgdynb1 on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:00AM (#26115054)

I 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.

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