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Racist Tweet by visiting Argentinian President in PRC

yellowarse

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She's a cold-blooded murderer, not just a racist bimbo. The scum of the earth. She deserves to go to the gallows.


Dead prosecutor contemplated arrest of Argentina's President

By David Fitzpatrick, Drew Griffin and Mariano Castillo, CNN

Buenos Aires (CNN)The Argentine prosecutor who was found dead after accusing the government of a cover-up had drafted an affidavit seeking the arrest of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the lead investigator in the case said Tuesday.

The untimely death of Alberto Nisman -- a special prosecutor investigating a 1994 terrorist attack in Buenos Aires -- raised suspicions from the start.

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Alberto Nisman died from a gunshot wound last month. Was it suicide or murder?

President: Nisman's death not a suicide

The revelation that Nisman had not just accused Fernandez of covering up Iran's role in the bombing, but drafted an arrest warrant for her, is likely to fan the flames of the conspiracy theories that have abounded since his death.

The draft was dated June 2014, indicating that the prosecutor had considered seeking an arrest warrant for some time, but in the end, filed a criminal complaint that did not include this petition.

The draft document calling for the President's arrest was found in a trash can in Nisman's apartment, lead investigator Viviana Fein said. The document also called for the arrests of Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and several political supporters of the President.

The existence of the draft arrest affidavit was first brought to light by the Argentine newspaper Clarin. On Sunday, the paper published its story, including images of the document.

The government called Clarin's report "garbage."
 

yellowarse

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That's because the way it spelt is unpronounceable.

It is not unpronounceable. The ang mohs can't pronounce it because they only have 'ng' at the end of a word, not as a standalone or at the beginning of a word (e.g. the Chinese surname Ngo). The latter two are a mystery to English tongues.

OK, some arcania here:

In phonetics, 'ng' is a nasal consonant represented by [ŋ]. Because it is a nasal and not a stop consonant (like 't' or 'p'), it can be voiced in a continuous manner without interruption and without adding a vowel. That is, nggggggggggggggggg.... Similar to 'm' (mmmmmmmmm ...) or 'n' (nnnnnnnnnnn ...).

Now, a subtle distinction in the pronunciation of 'Ng' between different dialect groups:

If your surname 'Ng' is transliterated from the Cantonese 吴 or 伍 (Mandarin wu), it is pronounced [ŋ].

If it is transliterated from the Hokkien or Teochew 黄 (Mandarin huang), it is actually pronounced [əŋ].
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Leongsam

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It is not unpronounceable. The ang mohs can't pronounce it because they only have 'ng' at the end of a word, not as a standalone or at the beginning of a word (e.g. the Chinese surname Ngo). The latter two are a mystery to English tongues.



All Ang Mohs can make the sound "ng" if you ask them too. That's how we learned to spell in the old days using phonetics.

All the Kiwis I know can also handle "ng" at the beginning of a word too. The Maori word "Ngati" has never caused problems amongst the white new zealanders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngati

However, calling someone by a name that does not have a vowel sound goes against the grain as far as the English language is concerned. For that reason they tend to say "Eng" as it is the closest phonetic pronunciation that makes sense.
 

yellowarse

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However, calling someone by a name that does not have a vowel sound goes against the grain as far as the English language is concerned. For that reason they tend to say "Eng" as it is the closest phonetic pronunciation that makes sense.

That's just the conditioning by the English language. If they could say "Eng" it would be a decent achievement. Many of my ang moh friends, including my secondary school ang moh teacher, could only say 'Nag', interposing a vowel in between. :smile:

It's all conditioning. Try asking a European or Chinese to read the African name 'Mbola'. They'll probably say 'Mabola' or 'Embola'.

That's why monoglots suck at learning foreign languages.
 

vtran2684

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It is not unpronounceable. The ang mohs can't pronounce it because they only have 'ng' at the end of a word, not as a standalone or at the beginning of a word (e.g. the Chinese surname Ngo). The latter two are a mystery to English tongues.

OK, some arcania here:

In phonetics, 'ng' is a nasal consonant represented by [ŋ]. Because it is a nasal and not a stop consonant (like 't' or 'p'), it can be voiced in a continuous manner without interruption and without adding a vowel. That is, nggggggggggggggggg.... Similar to 'm' (mmmmmmmmm ...) or 'n' (nnnnnnnnnnn ...).

Now, a subtle distinction in the pronunciation of 'Ng' between different dialect groups:

If your surname 'Ng' is transliterated from the Cantonese 吴 or 伍 (Mandarin wu), it is pronounced [ŋ].

If it is transliterated from the Hokkien or Teochew 黄 (Mandarin huang), it is actually pronounced [əŋ].
].​



they are well versed in pronouncing Nguyen. Cause they have lots of Vietnamese.
 
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