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Yes. The lecture was on filler words, if I understand correctly, and Chinese use this word as "uhm" in English.

There is of course no issue at all.




It's especially bad that this gets pulled up on a lecture about filter words.

If you listen to any native Mandarin speakers for more than 5 minutes you'll likely hear this word. If anything, being educated of it's existence allows you to recognize it as a legit word used in every Mandarin and not freak out when you hear Chinese people talking and think they're talking smack about black people.

This whole thing is just silly.




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