• rhubarb [he/him]
    ·
    2 months ago

    Pronouncing it like chonking as anti-racist praxis

    • EstraDoll [she/her]
      ·
      2 months ago

      chonking

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

    • naom3 [she/her]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 months ago

      maybe-later-kiddo sorry tankies but Wade-Giles is the anti-racist option

  • soupermen [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    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?

    • naom3 [she/her]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 months ago

      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

      • Jelamzer@lemmy.ml
        ·
        2 months ago

        Okay I just never heard anything in English not my (first language)that sounds like Chongqing

        • naom3 [she/her]
          hexagon
          ·
          2 months ago

          That’s probably for the best tbh