Comments on: Another Wholly Untranslatable Word

By: wandie

wandie — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:03:43 +0000

Another one is ‘long piak’ aka an extreme case of pekchekness. Or ‘long piak see’ aka death by hard wall.

By: brandon

brandon — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:44:21 +0000

i love tok kong! my sec school chinese teacher used it a lot in despair.

By: Chew

Chew — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:43:06 +0000

When one says how Nua of you, it refers to your (acheiving of the zen state of) sluggishness (as benchmarked against the rest of your class or the World in general).

By: vortexstorm

vortexstorm — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:48:00 +0000

okay. this is getting freakishly like a chat room. i’m just gonna stop now.

By: adri

adri — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:42:46 +0000

I have my comments ping-ing me wirelessly the instant they come in. ;) So I can just be sitting across the room, and I know it even before you hit “say it!”

Heheh. Actually it’s just me lurking around helpfully avoiding the mountain of work on my desk.. so..

By: Vicnan

Vicnan — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:42:17 +0000

RSS, no?

By: vortexstorm

vortexstorm — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:39:36 +0000

wow. you reply real fast. do u have this thing auto-refreshing itself like what, every 5 seconds? ^_-

By: Vicnan

Vicnan — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:37:56 +0000

NO! No hokkien!

..not until babelfish supports it, anyway.

By: adri

adri — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:32:58 +0000

we’ll see about that. :)

(the only thing holding me back is that the significant other will probably leave me - and i wouldn’t blame her - it would be the last straw, i think. heh heh.)

By: vortexstorm

vortexstorm — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:26:29 +0000

ah. you’re not about to break into blogging in hokkien, right? ..right? ^_ ;;