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- Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:54 pm
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Penang Hokkien lessons
- Replies: 47
- Views: 208962
Re: Penang Hokkien lessons
Mm33si33 wah4 cit3 lang2 tai33et1-eh2 nia33. If you want to talk about being "tāi-iát", you should go look in the mirror before applying it on others. The problem is there's now an Eliza Doolittle who insists on saying lovely as loVERly, and is telling the stuck-up Professor Higgins to take his uppe...
- Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:36 pm
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Hokkien Kelate (Kelantan Hokkien)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 54254
Re: Hokkien Kelate (Kelantan Hokkien)
Of course it's a typo. It's called being human. And I'm one too.
- Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:05 pm
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Hokkien Kelate (Kelantan Hokkien)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 54254
Re: Hokkien Kelate (Kelantan Hokkien)

Before you call people names and pass judgement on their writing system, make sure you can spell properly in your own.
- Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:48 am
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Penang Hokkien lessons
- Replies: 47
- Views: 208962
Re: Penang Hokkien lessons
Wah, Pope of Penang Hokkien! Thank you, thank you for the undeserving honor, but I won't reciprocate. I am not in the habit of calling people names, even if they call me plenty. I do acknowledge that there were (and still are) typos in some of the spellings and I am working to fix them, refine them,...
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 5:53 pm
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Going App with Penang Hokkien!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19727
Going App with Penang Hokkien!
My TJ System of Penang Hokkien romanisation has attracted the attention of a Dutch programmer, who wrote to me, asking if he could use it to develop an app for mobile devices. This is still very much in the preliminary stage, but it things go well, I hope to be able to see the app capable of transla...
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 2:05 am
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Idioms in Penang Hokkien
- Replies: 1
- Views: 15440
Re: Idioms in Penang Hokkien
Idioms newly added Bart3ciu1 tak1 stamp4. Literally: Eyes pasted with stamps. Meaning: Oblivious to something totally obvious. Boh3 tua3 boh3 seh3 Literally: not big, not small Meaning: disrespectful Example: Kong1 wa3 ka1 paeh3bo3 be3sai1 boh3 tua3 boh3 seh3. (Talking to parents one must not be di...
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 1:18 am
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Pronunciation of Romanized Hokkien
- Replies: 8
- Views: 33119
Re: Pronunciation of Romanized Hokkien
Thank you AndrewAndrew for your point of view. I fully understand and appreciate your effort in explaining to me. Will the system of romanisation that I created stand the test of time. I suppose only time will tell. But in the meantime, do give it a chance to survive. How should we pronounce Law Cho...
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:34 pm
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Pronunciation of Romanized Hokkien
- Replies: 8
- Views: 33119
Re: Pronunciation of Romanized Hokkien
Any romanization worth its salt should be able to handle the Ciangciu / Penang /ɛ/. As Andrew's shown, Douglas used "ɛ" Yes. I saw that. So what? You expect learners to cart around the Douglas dictionary. Whenever they meet a Penang Hokkien person, they have to flip open the dictionary, check up th...
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 4:59 pm
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Tan Choon Hoe and I
- Replies: 10
- Views: 36657
Re: Tan Choon Hoe and I
When I was council member of the Penang Heritage Trust, I lamented to my fellow council members that we spent a lot of time trying to save our tangible heritage, but not enough to save our intangible heritage. And an intangible heritage that was dying before our eyes is our own language, Penang Hokk...
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:29 am
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Guide to writing Penang Hokkien in the TJ System
- Replies: 0
- Views: 17606
Guide to writing Penang Hokkien in the TJ System
http://www.penang-traveltips.com/pics/guide-to-writing-penang-hokkien-2.jpg I realise that in the past, I have created lessons for beginners, for visitors to Penang, for expatriates, for EVERYBODY except for the people who already speak Penang Hokkien. So, finally, a lesson specially for people who...
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:15 am
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Malaysian dialect map
- Replies: 2
- Views: 34501
Re: Malaysian dialect map
http://www.penang-traveltips.com/pics/sun-qiang-temple-chinese-junk-replica.jpg Thanks for sharing this information. I did a research on the subject of why people in different parts of the Malay peninsula speak different Chinese dialect, i.e. Penang Hokkien, southern Hokkien, Cantonese, Baba Malay,...
- Mon Oct 14, 2013 5:13 am
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Rhymes in Penang Hokkien
- Replies: 0
- Views: 15982
Rhymes in Penang Hokkien
TUA3 PHAU3 (BIG FIRE-CRACKER) Penang Hokkien Rhyme Tua3 Phau3 is a Penang Hokkien rhyme often recited by scouts in Penang. It literally means big fire cracker, but is also slang to mean a person who talks big or boasts. The rhyme below can be taken at face value, to mean that various fire crackers ...
- Mon Oct 14, 2013 12:08 am
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Idioms in Penang Hokkien
- Replies: 1
- Views: 15440
Idioms in Penang Hokkien
I have started a page to compile the various idioms I have known or come across in Penang Hokkien: http://www.penang-traveltips.com/hokkien/idioms.htm To these I have just added two more: Bong3 thni1 leng1-leng4 Literally: Touch the sky and feel that it is cool Meaning: Having an unrealistic expecta...
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:09 pm
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Tan Choon Hoe and I
- Replies: 10
- Views: 36657
Re: Tan Choon Hoe and I
There is nothing "suka-suka" about the system, even if there are those who cannot understand it. Unfortunately it is difficult to explain on the linear plane of a forum, so I will leave things as they are. I know my priorities when creating the system. If I want to, I could have written Penang Hokki...
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 12:01 am
- Forum: Hokkien (Minnan) language
- Topic: Hokkien lang
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16080
Re: Hokkien lang
Hi there,
I am a Hokkien-speaking Penang lang. Happy to get to know you. I am doing my part to keep the language alive with my own free online Hokkien lessons.
I am a Hokkien-speaking Penang lang. Happy to get to know you. I am doing my part to keep the language alive with my own free online Hokkien lessons.