What does liao mean ?

Enchantress Selene SG

I posted it in another thread and was told it meant "already".
But my x boyfriend called me that and I was wondering if there was another meaning for it ?

bigdeal SG

ur x boyfren call u liao? no wonder u broke up.. cuz liao also means finish/gone...

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raingal SG

liao can also means die/the end Very Happy

JacK84 SG

Expect the worse. Sad

Enchantress Selene SG

Ok, thanks.

I hope he didn't mean die.. I didn't do anything wrong.
We were going to get married and he took a job in China for 6 months and he broke up with me a month after he got there.
He said he didn't have room in his future for me anymore.
We still stayed friends after that but when he got back home, he sent me a message on icq calling me a liao and wouldn't talk to me after that.
It really confused me.

Devil1976 SG

Hmm... Could it be some dialect term he picked up from China..?

otacon SG

Sorry but I hate people who wants to break off but leave a mystery for u to guess. This is case, what's really "liao", only he knows.
That's what my ex-gf did too. She wants to break off, said I treat her good, and blames herself but still want to break off. Dun ask me, I also have no idea until now y she wanted to break off. I thought by letting her go was a happiness for her, so be it.

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Enchantress Selene SG

He didn't know any chinese, so it's probably a slang he picked up while he was there.

Sorry to hear that Atacon Sad
Sounds just like the same thing that happened to me.

He also said "Lar".
I don't know what that means either.

Devil1976 SG

Maybe he've gone out of his mind..? Very Happy

chamenos SG

Enchantress Selene: Hey, sorry to hear about what's happened between you and your bf. Anyway, for a relationship, it takes two to make it work out and if he wants to break up, there's really nothing much you can do, so just save yourself the trouble and emotional trauma and try to forget about him. Smile

By the way, you're not a Singaporeon, are you? Just curious...

p.s. If you want to find out about any other singlish terms, you can go to www.talkingcock.com and look up the "cosford singlish dictionary"
http://www.talkingcock.com/html/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=2

good luck with it Smile

joanne SG

may i ask wat is ur nationality?

JacK84 SG

???
Enchantress Selene from Grandia??

Wes Brown SG

CurlyHair SG

Kua Tio Gui Liao!

bigdeal SG

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aCid_rAIn SG

LIAO
A Hokkien tag which depending on the context can mean either "already" or "finished".
1. "His mother early-early si liao, loh." (His mother died very early.)
2. "Like that his business sure liao, lah." (In such circumstances, his business is surely finished.)

*sources from The Coxford Singlish Dictionary*

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JacK84 SG

Surprised this thread is still going on.
Seems like "liao" has many different definitions.

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[This message has been edited by aCid_rAIn (edited 04 May 2002).]