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  2. Graphic pejoratives in written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    a leading Chinese linguist has remarked that the name 'Lolo' is offensive only when written with the 'dog' radical. There is undoubtedly here some reflection of the underlying Chinese equation of 'word' with 'written character', providing a clue to the 'pejorativization' of 'exonymized' names of this kind: by writing my name with a 'dog ...

  3. Gweilo - Wikipedia

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    Gweilo or gwailou (Chinese: 鬼佬; Cantonese Yale: gwáilóu, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu] ⓘ) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners.In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use.

  4. The 'G-word': The slur you didn't know was a slur - AOL

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    Clearly, the slur status of the G-word hasn’t been fully absorbed by the mainstream. This issue has presented a unique problem for us. Some people already know that the G-word is offensive; some ...

  5. Mandarin Chinese profanity - Wikipedia

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    Simultaneously, tonal differences make 神經病 sound harsher than 精神病. Now the word is used quite generally when insulting someone whose actions seem insane, odd, rude, offensive, or inappropriate. fāfēng (Chinese: 發瘋) going insane. biàntài (Chinese: 變態) Perverted, deviant, abnormal. [6] Cognate of Japanese hentai.

  6. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  7. Literary inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The second is that the writing was used as a tool to provide legitimate evidence for a predetermined conviction. [3] Such persecutions could owe even to a single phrase or word which the ruler considered offensive. Some of these were due to the naming taboo, such as writing a Chinese character that was part of the emperor's personal name. In ...

  8. These 11 everyday words and phrases have racist and offensive ...

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    As the Black Lives Matter movement remains in the spotlight after the police killing of George Floyd — most visibly in the Portland, Oregon, protests — activists have been raising awareness on ...

  9. Ching chong - Wikipedia

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    Ching chong, ching chang chong, and chung ching are ethnic slurs used to mock or imitate the Chinese language, people of Chinese ancestry, or other people of East Asian descent perceived to be Chinese. The term is a derogatory imitation of Mandarin and Cantonese phonology. [1]