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Unless you mean "Klaatu barada nikto" I have no idea what you just said.
I'll explain more in detail after I've thought about it for a while. Explanation as follows. Yeah it looks good. It's not entirely correct. To not care, is to be dismissive, take it as is like a TV show (and hardly are the portrayals true), but I know, so should I care? Not really. Unless Strop did it for entertainment value. You don't put your own culture up for entertainment value. But there is another dimension to this highlighted in the next paragraph.
So Strop "exposed" me as a flagrant deconstructivist in another thread, so I will... put some meaning behind my own words since only those who know know and its hard enough to explain if you don't. I will add that hidden dimension to Strop's picture that makes it, to me at least, not what he "intends" it to be. It, and his explanation, shows his disconnect, as do most overseas Chinese from their parents', grandparents', go-back-as-far-as-is-necessary's culture. Culture. There wrapped up in a different wrapper.
Those who know know, know what I'm talking about. The pinyin is not entirely correct. It is, but for a different phrase. The explanation uses the Hokkien Ang Pao instead of the pinyin Hong Bao. I'm not sure what that means. Is there a Hokkien community in Australia? Maybe. On a tangent, certainly Malaysia would celebrate the Lunar New Year with one of the largest overseas Chinese communities after Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand. There's a sizable population in Australia and New Zealand, but by no means large.
So what is it that I see? A blend of cultures of an overseas Chinese almost entirely immersed in another culture.
Traditional CNY folk songs ran through my head until I wanted to smash my head through a brick wall (not such a good thing).
Gong xi gong xi gong xi ni ah Gong xi gong xi gong xi ni
so Gantic does that make you a Chinese grammar Nazi or something.Also King Ryan while a lot of others seem to have gotten the joke behind yours.I can't seem to make heads or tails of it.It looks like a bowl of rice with some worms in it that were put next to a microwave or something.Seriously I just don't understand it at all.What am I missing here?
*throws himself down at Gantic's feet* heeeeelp! Could you at least provide a translation that actually fits? I agonised over the possibility that I was incorrect but ultimately it became a case of the blind leading the blind. As I have said before, I...am a banana.
(If you get both aspects of that joke I will applaud you.)
This doesn't make Gantic a Chinese grammar Nazi as I've used both the wrong characters and the wrong language. It's a bit like saying "Top o' the morning to ye" when I mean to say "How are you this afternoon?"
From my personal understanding, the various elements of Chinese culture has trickled down and been appropriated throughout the South East Asian community and, to a lesser extent, the Australia community. There are in fact significant demographic differences within those Australian communities also- one can expect to find a lot of mainland Chinese within Sydney whereas one would find a lot more Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese within Melbourne. This makes for significant differences in cultural idiosyncrasies. And since these migrant ethnic groups tend to collect in certain metropolitian areas (particularly students), we literally make up a majority in some places.
Now since Gantic has picked up on the ang pao, I'll reveal that my mother does come from Penang (a small island off the Malaysian peninsula) and thus speaks Hokkien. I've never been to China and never really gotten a feel for the various other veins of Chinese culture as it seems too vast and complicated a world for me to actually fathom. And as I've said before, thanks to a Western background, I'm continually feeling the disconnect, as with many other depatriated peoples, we can never quite figure out which our home country is.
In short: Gantic, if you could provide me with the correct pinyin, that would be much appreciated. Writing the wrong phrase is highly embarrassing.
Also, crimson, kingryan drew a microbial culture growing in a petridish. It's a biology joke.
I love those cartoons. Hilarious. Mah spoon... is tooooo big.
Ohhhh I get KR's entry now. Haha. I was just asking Zoph is she got it, not too long ago. And your entry is sweet Strop, sweet like Trix. I love the body and facial expression. xD
Cholokid I swear you better not be the queen of France are you?Anyways now that thats over I can't remember studying microbial cultures in Biology last year,and so I guess I will leave that joke where it is for now,and also I guess I have to judge in two days it seems.I just hope I have enough energy.The next two weeks are going to be hectic,but afterwords I will get to be much more active within the site then I am now.(Right now I am being a bit unactive compared to what I was like before the build season for robotics started,but don't worry I still have enough time to judge this)
Cholokid I swear you better not be the queen of France are you?
And why not? Its not like my anus is bleeding or anything. >.>
You know Crimson, I've been wondering now ever sense you told me about building robotics. And I was wondering, are you in the type of robot building thing where they battle after completed? Or are you just learning the basics?
they don't battle,but they do compete.We spend over $6000 to build these things so I don't think we want to wreck them.Also I'm also taking a class while being one of the few programmers on the team.Its not the easiest thing I've ever done to tell you the truth.
so Gantic does that make you a Chinese grammar Nazi or something.
Hardly. If you parse my sentences in any language, you'll see an uncanny (and incorrect) resemblance to English. I'm only fluent in one language and that's gibberish. I'm more interested in language than language.
--- The majority of overseas Chinese don't primarily use Mandarin, mainly Cantonese and Min dialects. The latter includes Hokkien. If you'd want to reflect that aspect, then Hokkien might be better. I've never understood much (or any) of it. But Mandarin is only more formal and widely understood.
The pinyin for the characters you have written are Gong He Xin Xi. Both phrases (that and Gong Xi Fa Cai) start with the same character so it took me a while to figure something was up. Speaking the wrong phrase is much more embarrassing, although if you spoke it, there wouldn't be a noticeable difference since both are New Year's Wishes.
Unless you mean "Klaatu barada nikto" I have no idea what you just said.
ok, I submit, strop was wrong. *ninja battles strop* *epic music from matrix starts playing* *dinosaurs start eating people in the background* "CHAAAIIINSAAAAWWWW!!!!!" *chases strop with chainsaw* "BANISHMENT BOW!!!!!" *bans chainsaw out of my hand* "COOKIE DOUGH LAUNCHER!!!!!!" *fires raw cookiedough at strop* "MOUTH - ACTIVATE!!!!" *nom* "HAHA! That cookie dough was full of two things:" *strop is all weirded out* "1, chlorine," *strop is just all liek....okayyy...* "2, RAW PEANUTS >DDD" "NOOO, MY ONE AND ONLY WEAKNESS!!!" "MUAHAHAHA!"
And why not? Its not like my anus is bleeding or anything. >.>
Aw come on...I specifically avoided that joke because, you know. So unfair >:
I'm only fluent in one language and that's gibberish.
...deconstructivist >.>
:P
If you'd want to reflect that aspect, then Hokkien might be better.
I would ask my mother except she can't read any Chiniese/Hokkien whatsoever, only speak Hokkien. My sister can't speak nor read but can translate. My father could passingly speak and read Mandarin and picked up some Hokkien. And I can't do any of the above.
At least I know how to say Gong Xi Fa Cai. Speaking of which, I notice there are multiple pronunciations of even that, is that a dialect thing?
Anyway, Mandarin characters would be greatly helpful, but I think I know somebody who could give me the Hokkien.
