hehe ... kài simsek.
"Adulterated" sī 李光耀 kóng ê lah! Ū lâng kámkak mi̍hkiāⁿ nā sī
campúr liáu'āu to̍h cáuceng khì..a. Tapí Hokkiàn oē + Tiôciu oē
campúr liáu'āu ná sêng jú khah súi!
Actually, I'm a different kind of hoanna. My grandparents came
from eastern and central Tn̂g Soaⁿ. They migrated to Taiwan in
1949. The orang Hokkien called these non-Hokkien orang Tn̂g Soaⁿ
hoanná—rarely, only when they were mad, and not anymore
nowadays.
Then when I was a baby, I moved to the U.S.A. with my parents.
In the U.S.A., we were definitely hoanna. But since I went so
early, I learned how to act & sound just like an ângmo͘ or
o͘lâng. So people couldn't tell I was a hoanna anymore. I became an
"àm" hoanná.
When I visited Asia or the Asian community, people assumed I was
kind of an ângmo͘sái. So now I was a hoanna in the Asian community
too.
But since my parents didn't speak good English, I kept my
ability to speak fluent Mandarin. I even went to school for two
years in Taiwan and learned to how to read it. Then, when I went to
college, I started learning Hokkien and Cantonese. I stopped being
an ângmo͘sái. Yet, I still had a lot of non-Asian ways of thinking.
So I was still a hoanna at heart, but I was an "àm" hoanná.
The bâbâ joke is pretty funny! I don't know any babas. Cit cūn
lúlang cai iáⁿ goá ê poèkéng / background, Clyde..siansiⁿ kóng goá
ê Hokkiàn oē kóng liáu ká ná Baba, I'm tāmpo̍h'á flattered, because
I didn't speak any Hokkien before tńg toā lâng.
I hope you don't mind if I write in Hokkien instead. Do you guys
prefer lômájī or hànjī?
"Punjab" to̍h sī 五江 ahsī 五川 ê ìsù... "Land of the Five
Rivers".
Tī cit pêng kah lúlang khai káng, kám kah put cí á sim sek.
hehe ... kài
simsek.
> My reply:
歡喜著好。
"Adulterated" sī 李光耀 kóng ê lah! Ū lâng kámkak mi̍hkiāⁿ nā sī
campúr liáu'āu to̍h cáuceng khì..a. Tapí Hokkiàn oē + Tiôciu oē
campúr liáu'āu ná sêng jú khah súi!
> My
reply: 著。福建話甲潮州話 campur
了后嘸但無走精，家自兮特色煞若成愈較水。
Actually, I'm a different kind of hoanna. My grandparents came from
eastern and central Tn̂g Soaⁿ. They migrated to Taiwan in 1949. The
orang Hokkien called these non-Hokkien orang Tn̂g Soaⁿ
hoanná—rarely, only when they were mad, and not anymore
nowadays.
> My reply: yup,
汝儂著是“外省儂”。
Then when I was a baby, I moved to the U.S.A. with my parents. In
the U.S.A., we were definitely hoanna. But since I went so early, I
learned how to act & sound just like an ângmo͘ or o͘lâng. So
people couldn't tell I was a hoanna anymore. I became an "àm"
hoanná.
> My reply:
原來如此。
When I visited Asia or the Asian community, people assumed I was
kind of an ângmo͘sái. So now I was a hoanna in the Asian community
too.
> My reply:
原來如此。
But since my parents didn't speak good English, I kept my ability
to speak fluent Mandarin. I even went to school for two years in
Taiwan and learned to how to read it. Then, when I went to college,
I started learning Hokkien and Cantonese. I stopped being an
ângmo͘sái. Yet, I still had a lot of non-Asian ways of thinking. So
I was still a hoanna at heart, but I was an "àm" hoanná.
> My reply:
hello，暗番囝，thanks for explaining。
The bâbâ joke is pretty funny! I don't know any babas. Cit cūn
lúlang cai iáⁿ goá ê poèkéng / background, Clyde..siansiⁿ kóng goá
ê Hokkiàn oē kóng liáu ká ná Baba, I'm tāmpo̍h'á flattered, because
I didn't speak any Hokkien before tńg toā lâng.
> My reply:
Clivebenss先生注意著汝有用 “selalu” 甲 “campur” 甲 “tapi” 即款番囝話嘛。
I hope you don't mind if I write in Hokkien instead. Do you guys
prefer lômájī or hànjī?
> My reply: I
don't mind at all. As long as the tones are there, I
can make sense out of it. I am ok with 羅馬字 甲 漢字 甲 國際標音 or
some other ad-hoc ones, as long as your transliteration is
consistent and uniform throughout
"Punjab" to̍h sī 五江 ahsī 五川 ê ìsù... "Land of the Five Rivers".
> My reply:
原來如此。
Tī cit pêng kah lúlang khai káng, kám kah put cí á sim sek.
> My reply:
汝心適甲我儂開講，我儂嘛是相siâng歡喜。
