PersonalFriday, 8 July 2005 08:10 pm
A Conversation in Hokkien & English
Time for a bit of levity.
“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”
On that note …
Guy 1 speaks Hokkien and bad English. Guy 2 speaks English and no Hokkien. Guy 2 just did something uncouth. The conversation follows:
Guy 1 : Eh, boh-swee lah lu!
Guy 2 : What?!
Guy 1 : You no pretty lah!
Guy 2 : Me not pretty!? Ch-yeah I hope not, I’m a guy!
Guy 1 : KNN, tor-hwee ah!
Guy 2 : What?!
Guy 1 : Vomit blood! Vomit blood!
Guy 2 : You are!? Stay away from me!
Guy 1 : Nabeh, cibai!
Guy 2 : Cibai!? I know what that means. You calling me a c*nt?!
Guy 1 : Arbo then!?
Guy 2 : F**khead!
Guy 1 : Hong kan lah lu! *ah-bish ah-bish*
Understand? No? Go here.
It’s mysterious the way our minds work. Just when I was deep in thought about the London tragedy, this little conversation popped into my head. I think it’s because I was thinking that what the terrorists did was “boh-swee”. And one thought lead to the other.
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Clearly, i should’ve paid more attention to Hokkien during childhood visits to my maternal grandmother. So little of that made sense. Oh the shame.
I’m not the best at it either. The bulk of my vocab are the swear words.
I can listen and understand but when I speak it, I have to insert English - a lot of it in the sentences.
Oh… so u CAN leave a message without account!
RIGHT!
I won’t rid you then. It was sort of like a joke to catch your attention. Afterall, you ARE one of my viewers.
Me no speak Singlish… but i did find that TalkingCock site helpful. I now know what an Ah Beng is! (yes, i’m THAT much of a banana) U know, ever since i first saw those comics, i knew there had to be some higher form of significance to the name, but no-one i asked ever cared to enlighten me. Thank you Mooi
purpletiara: you’re most welcomed.
Another way to think of Ah-Bengs is this: what yobbos are to Australians, they are to M’sians/S’poreans.
Yobbos: Now you speak-a my language! “I come from a land down under…”
purpletiara: damn it…I got that song stuck in my head now.
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!