{"id":48551,"date":"2020-09-23T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=48551"},"modified":"2020-09-23T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:46:55","slug":"hey-ren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=48551","title":{"rendered":"Hey Ren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"<span class=\"_2iek _50f7\">Ren &amp; Stimpy's Vacuum<\/span>\", a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/renandstimpy\/videos\/198186274717975\/\">Facebook video<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<p><div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/renandstimpy\/videos\/198186274717975\/\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div><\/p>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>As we have come to know all too well, to those who are predisposed to hearing it that way, Mandarin n\u00e0ge n\u00e0ge n\u00e0ge \/ n\u00e8ige n\u00e8ige n\u00e8ige \u90a3\u4e2a \u90a3\u4e2a \u90a3\u4e2a (\"that that that\") may come across as a racial slur in English.<\/p>\r\n<p>Going in the opposite direction, English \"Hey Ren\", may come across as Mandarin \"h\u0113ir\u00e9n \u9ed1\u4eba\" (\"black person\").<\/p>\r\n<p>I dare say that, no matter what one says in one language, it may sound somewhat like something that has another quite different meaning in another language.<\/p>\r\n<p>Basta basta(rd)!<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Selected readings<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to That terrible Chinese word for 'hominuh, hominuh, hominuh'\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=48459\" rel=\"bookmark\">That terrible Chinese word for 'hominuh, hominuh, hominuh'<\/a>\" (9\/16\/20)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to \" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=48447\" rel=\"bookmark\">'That, that, that\u2026', part 3<\/a>\" (9\/14\/20)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to \" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=48302\" rel=\"bookmark\">'That, that, that\u2026', part 2<\/a>\" (8\/28\/20)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to That, that, that\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=23691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D23691&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1598739217789000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGwqSHLxyIyVuN1GdJ2q2Z7k-aTRA\">That, that, that\u2026<\/a>\" (1\/24\/16)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to A Chinese analog to English \" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=45063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D45063&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1598739217789000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEdmEdjk-ywA2LNfvJmotLYIHxixQ\">A Chinese analog to English 'you know'<\/a>\" (11\/22\/19)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to \" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=39947\" rel=\"bookmark\">'Gweilo' as a racially charged term<\/a>\" &#8212; Nepali, Cantonese, English interference<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>[Thanks to Mark Metcalf]<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Ren &amp; Stimpy's Vacuum\", a Facebook video:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mishearing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48555,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551\/revisions\/48555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}