Hey guys, Let me explain what is meaning of "Shabi"!

xboxboy SG

It seems that so many Singaporens are interested in that, hahahah...?

what is meaning of "Sha3bi1"? (the number is tune of pronunciation)
it means "Stupid, idiot", this words from north part of China.
if you understand shanghai dialect, you might know the words "Shi2 San1 Dian3" (thirteen points), meaning same...

Well, BTW, In english, we are called "Chinese", not "china man", your singapore's english is really "Shabi".

j28w32 SG

good on you,, keep your efforts..

cunnibal SG

in shanghainese it's pronounced as 'Ser Seh Di' shi san dian is mandarin pronunciation. shabi has more of a 'hey stupid' meaning while 'Ser Seh Di' simply mean Gila....

xboxboy SG

Hahaha....

You know it is very hard to put a PinYin on a shanghai dialect. but I can make a try. In Pinyin, "Se Sei di"

'Ser Seh Di', it is not a Pinyin, What is it?

Ito_^ SG

Pookie ma kao.

YaoRockets SG

actually, the literal translation of "Sha Bi" is "stupid c-u-n-t", but xbox is right in that when people use it on someone, they just meant to say "stupid idiot".

"Chinaman" was/may still is a derogatory term for "Chinese". Quite many singaporean think they are not chinese and even fantasize about being white since they speak singlish not chinese, but when they travel to the west, soon they will find out they are still called "chink" or "chinaman" by average joe faster than you can say "angmor".

life is full of irony. Very Happy

oldbreadstinks SG

alright , we have people spilling over from the bar again Rolling Eyes

sgboy2004 SG

Croco is shabi Sad

oldbreadstinks SG

croco is buaya

Ito_^ SG

croco is shabi buaya

xboxboy SG

Aboslutely right!

In addition, Sigaporen consider english as their mother tongue, most of them think they speak just like native speaker and be very proud of it.

That is so Shabi, they never heard what american said "Singapore english is horrible", I heard this for many times when i stay in USA.

Singaporen speak very Shabi english, singapore have no his own language, is it right?

As a chinese, I am very proud of my mother tongue, I can speak and write chinese perfectly and natively. Can sigaporen speak and write english in very native way????can you ???

xboxboy SG

BTW,your english is very NB (NiuBi) indeed!!

CX SG

don't be stupid... no two places on the planet speaks english the same way... who are u to judge how singaporeans speaks english?

china, china man, chink, whatever... me yellow on the outside, but everyone's red on the inside.

the.raven SG

nonononono

you are wrong, sha bi means stupid Cunt, bi is Pussy Wink and sao bi means smelly Pussy Laughing and of course you also have the infamous "Cao ni ma de bi!!" that every Chinese knows

the.raven SG

where got ppl call himself stupid Cunt one??? Rolling Eyes

cunnibal SG

hehe, look at my topic titled 'can't stand singaporean who think they are ang mor' we have an entire stream of threads talking about this stupid behaviour....

cunnibal SG

lol do you know that the brits say the same thing about american english, and the yanks said the same about the brits? when you are unfamilar with how a certain region use the langauge that you use too often you tend to judge alot and criticise.

Believe it or not, many of my american colleagues have poorer grammer and sentence contruct then me, considering that I only got a C6 in my general papers during my A levels year.

There was even once when my american colleague has to try several futile attempts to spell the word 'tentatively' before sheepishly asking me and my malaysian colleague to spell it out for him so that he can jot it down in our meeting minutes.

Singapore is a migrant society, the languages we use are all imported - same goes for US or Australia or NZ or canada etc.

talking about writing english in a native way, what do you mean by native? it can mean different things for a brit, a yank, an aussie and a new zealander. All of us singaporeans here are writing in a very native way - unique to singapore only - if you want me to write queen's english, what have I been doing right up to this moment? Wink

cunnibal SG

Btw, i consider mandarin as my mother tongue and like you, I can write chinese in such competence that most of the time, when I write chinese on the internet chat rooms or forums, nobody believe that I'm not from china.

So does that prove your sweeping statement wrong - that 'Singaporen consider english as their mother tongue'? becos I'm chink-jia-por-len and I do not consider english as my mother tongue. Wink

cunnibal SG

yup, I was called chink and made fun of on the streets of UK twice....

tspg SG

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