Re: To puke
What I often hear in HK is still 劏白鶴, perhaps popular only among my (i.e. older) generation of people.
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關 繼 威These three characters are pronounced: gwaan1 gai3 wai1.This alludes to the actor Jonathan Ke Quan, who was born on August 20, 1971 in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam and had moved with...
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TaylorMade R15 Driver For Sale For starters, winning the career Grand Slam seems an inevitability. Sure, it's possible Spieth could end up like Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson, two Hall of Famers who won...
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TaylorMade SLDR Hybrid Stouffer, who won the Charlottesville City Championship earlier this month, is presently third with 44 points. Thus far, Mahone is the only one of the three entered in next...
View ArticleWhat is 舊 in Teochew dialect?
What is 舊 - old - in Teochew dialect? I could not find the answer easily.Thank you.
View ArticleWhat is "burrow" in Cantonese?
What is "burrow" (noun) in Cantonese? Cantodict does not give me a good answer." burrow (noun)a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge."And if...
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Strange, I have known it - it's 地洞. Why did I forget it? And of course my Mandarin dictionary gives this word.But are there other possibilities than 地洞?
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Thank you.Now, can 竇 also mean a nest? What kind of nest?Cantodict says:竇 dau3 - Cantonese onlyden; nest; sheltering placeAnd while we are at it, what does 竇口 actually mean? What kind of nest or...
View ArticleRe: What is 舊 in Teochew dialect?
I remember it’s ‘gu6’ for “old” as against “new”, and ‘gu3 si1’ for 舊時.
View ArticleRe: What is "burrow" in Cantonese?
What is "burrow" (noun) in Cantonese? Cantodict does not give me a good answer.When CantoDict could not give us a good answer, it probably means that the English term in question (e.g. burrow) is not...
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竇 = 穴,窩,巢,孔,洞,縫隙,器官或凹入部分Also:賊竇老鼠竇蜜蜂竇龍牀唔似狗竇被竇鼻竇疑竇情竇初開
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> But are there other possibilities than 地洞?On writings, 地洞 is the only choice. In conversations, you can say 地窿 in Cantonese.
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you can say 地窿 in Cantonese.地窿 looks like the best choice. It’s now in CantoDict. [www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk] Thx for suggestion.
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Thank you all for your good answers! Now I must study them.
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Bruce: 我少讀書,你唔好呃我.Bruce: 係咪我陳真走出去,精武館就唔會受連累?Bruce: 係咪?X: 我可以向你保證, 你唔好忘記, 我都係中國人Bruce: 我話你知, 我陳真殺人填命, 同精武館冇關
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"Hunger is the best spice"How would someone translate this into both Mandarin and Cantonese?
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