Hi Bangulzai, Chew
Bakar, and everyone else!
This is the first of
my transcriptions. It’s very well known on youtube - it got more
than 500 text responses, most of them very
positive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3NWm6mYUsE
The only sad thing
about this one (and a number of people have remarked about it) is
that the ending cuts in rather abruptly.
There are
outstanding problems and questions (parts I can't hear clearly,
parts I can hear clearly but don't know what they mean, parts I can
hear clearly and know what they mean, but don't know good
characters to write them with). I've put all these outstanding
problems in between curly brackets ({}). In my transcription, I
haven't made any effort to distinguish Hokkien from Mandarin -
Hokkien is rendered in Peh-Oe-Ji, and Mandarin in
pinyin.
Thanks in
advance!
PS. This has already
been posted for a while in the Minnan Forum,
and a lot of the feedback I got there has been updated in this
posting.
---
Hokkien
Speeding
[Hokkien]
1a. huaN-chhia toh
si-kue so
捍車toh四界趖
Driving a car, you
wander around
1b. sit-chai ho
chhit-tho
實在好迄逃
It’s really
fun
1c. u lang ai
speeding
有人愛speeding
Some people like
speeding
1d. u lang
toh ban-ban
so
有人toh慢慢趖
Others just crawl
along
---
2a. u lang
chit-chhiu huaN chhia
有人一手捍車
Some people steer
with one hand
2b. chit-chhiu ka
girlfriend pho
一手共
girlfriend 抱
Hugging their
girlfriend with the other
2c. u lang khuaN
cha-bO
有人看查某
Some people look at
girls
2d. khi long-tioh
lau-a-po
去[扌+弄]著老阿婆
And end up hitting a
little old lady
---
3a. ang-teng, chhiN
teng, khuaN be chheng chho
紅燈青燈看未清楚
Red light, green
light, you haven’t looked carefully
3b.
{chong???}
kue toh chhut chhia-ho
{衝???}過toh出車禍
You dash out and
there’s a car accident
3c. lim-chiu
huaN-chhia khi long-tioh lang
啉酒捍車去[扌+弄]著人
If you drink and
drive and hit someone
3d. si li i-seng e
tua chho
是你一生的大錯
It’ll be the biggest
blunder of your life
---
4a. pager
na hiang tioh ai {lun???}
Pager
若響著愛{忍???}
If your pager rings
you have to {???}
4b. a
handphone tioh
{saman???}
啊handphone著{saman}
And (for using your)
handphone (you’ll) get a {summons???}
4c. ai jip
CBD tioh be tuaN
愛入CBD著買單
If you want to enter
the CBD, you have to buy a ticket
4d. bus-lane
li toh chai siam
Bus-lane
你toh知閃
You will have to
know how to avoid the bus-man
---
5a. huaN-chhia toh
si-kue so
捍車toh四界趖
Driving a car, you
wander around
5b. m-si ho
chhit-tho
不是好迄逃
It’s not a matter of
fun
5c. na li bo
sue-ji
若你無細膩
If you’re not
careful
5d.
{liam/liang mi???}
toh u lang to
{???}
toh有人倒
{???}
there’ll be someone {knocked
over???}
---
6a. huaN-chhia toh
si-kue so
捍車toh四界趖
Driving a car, you
wander around
6b. chheng-ban toh
mai chhit-tho
千萬toh [勿愛]迄逃
You absolutely
mustn’t play around
6c. na li ai
thi-khi
若你愛鐵齒
If you stubbornly
insist on doing wrong
6d. heN, heN!
license tioh
{balik kho???}
heN, heN!
license 著 {balik}
{考???}
Haha!
{You’ll have to to back and take
an exam for your???} licence
[Mandarin]
7a. rén shūo mă-lù
rú hǔ
-kǒu a
人說馬路如虎口啊
People say the road
is like the jaws of death
7b. jiāo-tōng gūi-zé
nĭ yào zūn-shǒu
交通規則你要遵守
You have to obey the
traffic regulations
7c. hóng-dēng tíng
lái lü dēng zǒu
a
紅燈停來綠燈走啊
At a red light,
stop; at a green, go
7d. huáng-dēng
yi liàng jìu bié căi-yóu
黃燈一亮就別踩油
Once the amber light
flashes, don’t step on the gas
7e.
níng-kĕ chí-dào
jĭ hūn-zhōng
a
寧可遲到幾分鍾啊
It’s preferable to
arrive a few minutes late
7f. bù yào jí-zhù bă
mìng sòng
不要急著把命送
{Don’t
hurry and lose your life???}
---
Notes:
1. "huaN7" (= "to
drive (a car, etc)") is rendered 捍, but I've also seen 按 used.
2. Line 1d is
currently rendered "有人 toh 慢慢趖", but it
could also be "有人在慢慢趖"
or "有人佇慢慢趖" u lang ti ban-ban
so.
3. Most versions of
this on the internet had "bus-stand" in line 4d. Fortunately, one
person posted their rendering on the internet, with "bus-lane", and
after I listened a number of times, I think "bus-lane" is better
than "bus-stand" (although one would normally "siam2" a bus-stand
more than one would a "bus-lane", so I'm still not 100%
sure...).
4. In the
second-last line (7e), the transcription reads 分鍾 “fen-zhong” which
makes perfect sense, but for some reason it is pronounced
“hun-zhong” in execution.
