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by Aurelio
Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:33 pm
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: Nuggets from Nicolas C. Bodman’s “Spoken Amoy Hokkien”
Replies: 5
Views: 15704

Re: Nuggets from Nicolas C. Bodman’s “Spoken Amoy Hokkien”

Hi Mark, Could it be confusion about the tone marks? Bodman's "tǐt-thaǔ" would be "tịt thàu" or "tit8-thau3" in POJ romanization (直 by itself would be tît in Bodman, but he always indicates tone sandhi in compound words). Checking tit8-thau3 in Douglas, I get tịt-thaù-j...
by Aurelio
Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:38 am
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: Literary vs. Colloquial pronunciation of numbers
Replies: 21
Views: 97011

Re: Literary vs. Colloquial pronunciation of numbers

Hi guys,

Was this the thread you were looking for?

http://www.chinalanguage.com/forums/vie ... c5702b466f

I found it via google ...

Cheers,
Aurelio
by Aurelio
Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:36 pm
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: Douglas with Handwritten Characters!
Replies: 19
Views: 51653

Re: Douglas with Handwritten Characters!

Hi everybody! Thanks for the good wishes, Sim, I wish you the best, too. I am still very excited about my virtual copy of Douglas. The only thing that kept bugging me was the amount of scrolling required to get to the middle of a section ... until I realized the value of creating your own bookmarks ...
by Aurelio
Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:19 am
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: Online English Hokkien Dictionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Replies: 8
Views: 58329

Re: Online English Hokkien Dictionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everybody! When it rains, it pours :-) I had just stopped by to say thanks for "Douglas with 漢字" and got another dictionary in return :-) Thank you! BTW: Sim, Niuc, Andrew, Mark & al.: Great to see everybody still here and the forum so active :-) Let me use this opportunity to wish ...
by Aurelio
Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:05 am
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: Douglas with Handwritten Characters!
Replies: 19
Views: 51653

Re: Douglas with Handwritten Characters!

大家好! Ah-bin and Sim, thanks so much! This is a great find :-) Ordered the book & CD right away after I saw your recommendations. I don't think a day has gone by since without me using it :-) I was most excited to see that the majority of the characters are the 本字 - clearly picked by somebody who...
by Aurelio
Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:49 pm
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: PSC-1: Old Norse -angr : Taiwanese -an
Replies: 13
Views: 27670

Hi Heruler, Long time no see - sorry for not answering earlier, the last couple of weeks have been extremely busy. For the same reason, I will only give a very short reply today, my apologies. Thanks for explaining your working model in another thread. As far as data collection goes, I am very happy...
by Aurelio
Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:06 pm
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: Voyager Interstellar Mission: Amoy Greetings to Outer Space
Replies: 7
Views: 18710

Hi everybody,

This topic came up a long time ago ... may have been 5 years by now ;-) There was the same concern that the 'chiah ba be' part may be taken a bit too literally ;-) Somebody else enquired whether we should be concerned about Ah-Lians coming to eat us all ... hehehe

Best,
Aurelio
by Aurelio
Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:57 pm
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: Thanks to the moderator(s)!
Replies: 1
Views: 9223

Thanks to the moderator(s)!

Hi everybody,

Quiet again here. Only the spam-vultures are posting. I wonder how they find us :x In any case, a big thanks to the moderator(s) for cleaning this up every once in a while - it's appreciated.

Aurelio
by Aurelio
Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:34 pm
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: The ordinals in Taiwanese, English and German
Replies: 9
Views: 23235

Hi again, I thought I should explain why I think it's a waste of time to try to find a connection between those languages: If you look within the IndoEuropean languages, you'll find a lot of words which are obviously related across the entire continent. I'll give you a few examples: (1) night - prot...
by Aurelio
Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:21 am
Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
Topic: The ordinals in Taiwanese, English and German
Replies: 9
Views: 23235

Dear Heruler, Sorry to hear about your bad experience in LA - any kind of theft is extremely annoying, hope you didn't lose too much! I have just come back from a business trip to Brazil, where a friend of mine was robbed at gunpoint (!) of both his car and laptop ... at least the robbers left him h...