Is there a need for all the pretense?
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You left out GeddyOriginally posted by DriftingGuy:I hereby congratulate Rhonda and Elindra for turning this into an 8 page thread... I am truly amazed
Don't stop us, we're having too much fun
Aiya.............paiseh la.....me make boo boo. I mean ahhhhh
How come u no say Geddy ar? This thread so fun hor
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Oi, MG! You trying to be grammEr elitist, izzit? Simi 'Sidelines'? Simi 'hoot'? Wah biang oi... no need so cheem one can or not? Your grammEr accent very pretend pretend one!
[b]OY! SPEAK ENGLISH, LAH!
MG (Watching from the sidelines and having a hoot!)[/b] -
Oops, post liao but re-post 2nd time. Solli lah!
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Wah lau........Gedanken......your last two Hokkien posts ah.......I will be the next to get head damage ah or even crossed eye.Originally posted by Gedanken:Beh hiao kin lah. Wah ji jun kwee char kway teow diam, ay sai gua Lolek, sai Marsaylee, beh pai lah.
Li eh Hokkien a ni cheem ah? Wa si 100% Hokkien lang, also liak boh kew ah. 
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Ok lor.....wa bo lui la. Lolek, Marsaylee.....ke koon than haveOriginally posted by Gedanken:Beh hiao kin lah. Wah ji jun kwee char kway teow diam, ay sai gua Lolek, sai Marsaylee, beh pai lah. -
Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Wah lau eh! Jik kor gong Engrand kah cheem, jik kor gong "speak Engrand", ah neh kuan an jua?
[b]OY! SPEAK ENGLISH, LAH!
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Teochew nang kong Hokkien way beh pai ah?Originally posted by littlestream:Wah lau........Gedanken......your last two Hokkien posts ah.......I will be the next to get head damage ah or even crossed eye. Li eh Hokkien a ni cheem ah? Wa si 100% Hokkien lang, also liak boh kew ah. -
Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Simi si English?
[b]OY! SPEAK ENGLISH, LAH!
MG (Watching from the sidelines and having a hoot!)[/b]
We are trying hard not to be grammEr-elitist. OMG!!! I did it again
Paiseh -
Si mi "solli"? Si "pai seh" - gong ho seh lah!Originally posted by Rhonda:Oops, post liao but re-post 2nd time. Solli lah! -
Ar??? Ah Ged also Teochew nang ar. No wonder so chia alsoOriginally posted by Gedanken:Teochew nang kong Hokkien way beh pai ah? -
Ar? Ni kong simi??Originally posted by Gedanken:Wah lau eh! Jik kor gong Engrand kah cheem, jik kor gong "speak Engrand", ah neh kuan an jua?
(Did I say that right?)
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A ne nor....ho lah, gua meng pek liew.Originally posted by Gedanken:Teochew nang kong Hokkien way beh pai ah? oi sai oi sai, ho kiang liao loh. Boh kuai li wu PhD. -
(Gimme 5 bucks and I'll refill your popcorn, MG :lol
Ok guys, I have enough fun for the night. Be hitting the sack. Nitez -
Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Wah kong ang mo weh dio suan, kong teng nang weh mah si dio suan, ah neh kuan ai kong si mi weh?
Ar? Ni kong simi??
(Did I say that right?)
MG (Running low on popcorn)[/b] -
Aiyah, buay ah neh kiang lah - wah ker or jiew tak PhD, tak hoh liao dio Permanent Head Damage, si beh cham leh!Originally posted by littlestream:A ne nor....ho lah, gua meng pek liew. oi sai oi sai, ho kiang liao loh. Boh kuai li wu PhD. -
Anyway, time for me to throw in the towel and hit the sack. I've just about laughed my way to a hernia anyway.
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Originally posted by Gedanken:Aiyah, buay ah neh kiang lah - wah ker or jiew tak PhD, tak hoh liao dio Permanent Head Damage, si beh cham leh!
Hey, Geddy........quite a challenge for my pitiful brains. But when I get it, oh boy, do I laugh!!! My colleague in the next cubicle must be wondering what's happening to this seow cha boh. Anyways, it was a good little thread. I am breaking up for lunch. Hope to catch up at another chance.
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So enterprising, elindra!!Originally posted by elindra:(Gimme 5 bucks and I'll refill your popcorn, MG :lol
Ok guys, I have enough fun for the night. Be hitting the sack. Nitez
Oops!!
I did it again lor!! Me use bomb-da-plastic word again wor! Should've said, 'Elindra, you very money-faced, hor!' -
Good night, everyone! It was fun!
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yup..if wot e say iz tru.Originally posted by HENG@:aye wot mate? 'es a kiwi innit?
Originally posted by Bloop...:
Any problems communicating with Australian Vics though? I spent a long time in New Jersey and New York before spending another 3 years in Melbourne.
Everytime I spoke to them I ended up going, "What the fuc...". Mentally of course. Those guys don't even understand New Zealanders!!! -
Originally posted by alexkusu:
...and if I had said they don't even understand New Zealanders or Americans? What would that make me?
yup..if wot e say iz tru.
[b]Originally posted by Bloop...:
Any problems communicating with Australian Vics though? I spent a long time in New Jersey and New York before spending another 3 years in Melbourne.
Everytime I spoke to them I ended up going, "What the fuc...". Mentally of course. Those guys don't even understand New Zealanders!!! [/b]
I see you guys have a very strong case of we-know-it-all syndrome.
Forget the fact that some of you need to pull out a dictionary to reply to posts, then shoot down anything you do not know as a "nonsensical phrase".
So seeing how you all know everything, then I must be wrong and I apologize.
(...but for those of you who actually want to learn something - "contextual usage", look it up) -
Forget I posted anything... I understand now how and why you can put down others for what you deem as a "fake accent".
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I think this is a good time to do the 'we shall agree to disagree yada yada yada, no hard feelings blah blah blah, good luck in your future endeavours and so on and so forth'
Or we can all try to get the last word in...
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wah... ji li hai yi sia.Originally posted by elindra:Join Gah-men ar? Good idea wor. Must care hor. Maybe can new CEO of NKF but hor must do swee swee. If not later kar cheng tio cieo like Durai.
your ang moh so powderful one ar... steady leh... can teach me or not. Lai leh.. mai dao leh.. teach lah. Dont see me ah beng no up hor... only ang moh a bit the ji teh ji teh -
Wah say! "Contextual usage"? Si beh cheem sia!
OK, if you want to play the "let's make up clever sounding phrases" game, we could have some fun with that. Hell, I'll throw in some alliterations, just to make it a bit more fun.
First of all, it's not a case of us being know-it-alls - it's a case of you wading in here with your "postmodernist pontifications", trying to apply a frame of reference that is entirely inappropriate. That's the problem with postmodernism - too often it's used as a fancy excuse for "I can do whatever I bloody well please".
Despite it being pointed out to you that you're way off the mark, instead of employing any "intellectual integrity", you instead developed a case of "didactic diarrhoea" and went on a "jargonistic junket", backtracking on your initial plea to speak plain English.
The problem is that, while Rhonda could handle writing in non-plain form, you've gotten too clever for yourself and instead made youself look stupid with some nonsensical term. Whoops - did you figure that everybody would be too dazzled by your "vocabularic voluminosity" to notice that you were spewing crap?
Tough luck, Tiger - on a daily basis, I wade through tons of jargon-filled piffle to get to the simple points that some eggheads are trying to make, and what may sound clever to you is in fact nothing more than a tissue-thin covering for an argument which is so full of holes it would make a teabag look like a submarine.
To summarise, your "demagogical desires" have fallen flat on this forum, not because we are a bunch of know-it-alls, but because of your "sagacious shortcomings". Deal with it.