SG: 10.30pm Club in a dot

• Clivebenss

  26 Mar 11, 23:14

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  For parents of your generation you are considered to be unconventional and the end results is rewarding.   

  agreed.

  No point reining the kids too much.

  Giam kua hu chu gau chat.

• afan

  26 Mar 11, 23:16

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  agreed.

  No point reining the kids too much.

  Giam kua hu chu gau chat.

  
  I saw and heard many parents of your generation doing the opposite and end results is disappointing.

  What is the meaning of that dialect phrase?

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  26 Mar 11, 23:17

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  huh he not your buddie, probably he now wooing gals

  
  he always wooing girls everytime 24/7

• afan

  26 Mar 11, 23:18

  Originally posted by Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1):

  
  he always wooing girls everytime 24/7

  
  hahahahahahha!   

• Clivebenss

  26 Mar 11, 23:19

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  I saw and heard many parents of your generation doing the opposite and end results is disappointing.

  What is the meaning of that dialect phrase?

  giam kua hu (strict governor's home) chut gua chat (teaches clever criminals).

  

• afan

  26 Mar 11, 23:21

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  giam kua hu (strict governor's home) chut gua chat (teaches clever criminals).

  

  
  only know how to interpret the first part in hokkien , the last part I dunno

• BanguIzai

  26 Mar 11, 23:22

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  only know how to interpret the first part in hokkien , the last part I dunno

  嚴官府，出外賊

   

  edit::

  i tink should be 厚賊  kau ch'at

• afan

  26 Mar 11, 23:24

  Originally posted by BanguIzai:

  嚴官府，出外賊

  
  Thanks.   I understand now.

• Clivebenss

  26 Mar 11, 23:24

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  only know how to interpret the first part in hokkien , the last part I dunno

  It's good that I learn my Hokkien full time from an elderly teacher during WWII. I'm very bitter he was killed cold blooded even till today. He is a very good teacher.

  

• BanguIzai

  26 Mar 11, 23:26

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  Thanks.   I understand now.

  edit::

  i tink should be 厚賊  kau ch'at

• afan

  26 Mar 11, 23:27

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  It's good that I learn my Hokkien full time from an elderly teacher during WWII. I'm very bitter he was killed cold blooded even till today. He is a very good teacher.

  

  
  Where is this teacher from?   What type of Hokkien he taught?

  Actually i m interested in the xiamen hokkien.  Heard one xiamen lecturer speaking it and that is how I start to  like it.

• Clivebenss

  26 Mar 11, 23:30

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  Where is this teacher from?   What type of Hokkien he taught?

  Actually i m interested in the xiamen hokkien.  Heard one xiamen lecturer speaking it and that is how I start to  like it.

  chuan chew.

• afan

  26 Mar 11, 23:32

  Originally posted by BanguIzai:

  edit::

  i tink should be 厚賊  kau ch'at

  
  why 厚賊? Thick thief?

• afan

  26 Mar 11, 23:33

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  chuan chew.

  
  Is it same as Xiamen and Tong An?

• Clivebenss

  26 Mar 11, 23:34

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  why 厚賊? Thick thief?

  thick with thieves = lots of thieves the other intepretation.

• BanguIzai

  26 Mar 11, 23:34

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  why 厚賊? Thick thief?

  I search from Internet one,  is 厚賊,  i dunno why too.  Hehe

• Clivebenss

  26 Mar 11, 23:34

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  Is it same as Xiamen and Tong An?

  quite different in pronunciation from Xiamen and Tong Ann.

• BanguIzai

  26 Mar 11, 23:35

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  thick with thieves = lots of thieves the other intepretation.

  ok good

• Clivebenss

  26 Mar 11, 23:37

  Originally posted by BanguIzai:

  ok good

  good that my teacher twist some proverbs too so provide different alternative views. He is not the type that just read from the book.

• afan

  26 Mar 11, 23:39

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  quite different in pronunciation from Xiamen and Tong Ann.

  
  no wonder I dun understand your second half of the post.

• BanguIzai

  26 Mar 11, 23:39

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  quite different in pronunciation from Xiamen and Tong Ann.

  Can listen to this Lady speak Chuanzhou dialect here in this TV programme:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbzVMtHMsdk

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVT-SvRpwDI

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbzVMtHMsdk

• afan

  26 Mar 11, 23:39

  Originally posted by BanguIzai:

  I search from Internet one,  is 厚賊,  i dunno why too.  Hehe

  
  best way is look at words and listen to speech to learn. 

• Clivebenss

  26 Mar 11, 23:43

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  no wonder I dun understand your second half of the post.

  sorry misspell.

  giam kua hu (strict governor's home) chut (gau) chat (teaches clever criminals).

  

• afan

  26 Mar 11, 23:45

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  sorry misspell.

  giam kua hu (strict governor's home) chut (gau) chat (teaches clever criminals).

  

  
  I suppose this is the quan zhou hokkien.

• Clivebenss

  26 Mar 11, 23:54

  Originally posted by afan:

  
  I suppose this is the quan zhou hokkien.

  nope my mistake.