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The Sound of a Foreign Word Caused Debate on US Campus
January 16, 2021
In this March 12, 2019 file photo, people walk at the University Village area of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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Last August, The University of Southern California, known as USC, became involved in a dispute over language that appeared widely in U.S. and Chinese news stories.
It started with a white communications professor talking about small words or sounds that people use while speaking to signal
pauses.
Because of the coronavirus health crisis, Gregory Patton was teaching the class online in a video conference. This fact may have added to the problem.