777 Jet crashes at SFO

coolweather
Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:48:37 +0000

I find the original joke mildly offensive. It plays on the sounds of names in (some) Asian languages, and I think it does so disparagingly. And I think it mocks Asians for who they are and how they sound, rather than mocking these particular Asians for what they did.



It may or may not. It’s more about the meaning of the words than the sound. The cleverness of the intern is to use the asian language words to make the words sound like English language sound with the meaning like “way too low”, and other bad meanings… This is what the TV announcer tripped on.