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The suspension of a US university professor has ignited a debate over the use of a seemingly innocuous Chinese word.

Professor Greg Patton at the University of Southern California (USC) was telling students in a communications lecture last month about filler, or pause words, such as 'err', 'umm' or 'you know' in English.

Footage of his lecture, which has now gone viral, shows Prof Patton saying: "In China, the common pause word is 'that, that, that'. So in China, it might be na-ge, na-ge, na-ge."

語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)

suspension n. 暫停

ignite vt. 激起，引起（cause）；點(diǎn)燃; 著火

innocuous adj. 無(wú)意冒犯的（inoffensive）

filler/pause words: 填充詞

footage n. （電影）片段，鏡頭

go viral: 瘋傳

· viral adj. 傳播速度快的；病毒性的

· the most viewed viral videos: 觀看次數(shù)最多的視頻

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