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by 0_____0 535 days ago
那个 (nèige)[1]

It does stick out of Mandarin speech to the US English speaker, but it's typically pretty obvious from context that it's not related to the slur. It's never been worth more than a giggle when growing up, I'm spending like 100x more time on thinking about it right now than I have cumulatively in my life, despite having grown up around Chinese people.

[1]: https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/The_fil...