I think all of us have heard of the HF 19 coming into effect very soon. But do you know 19 has a very special meaning in Cantonese?
19 is very similar to the pronounciation of 濕鳩 in Cantonese (Pronounciation: sup gou). 濕 means wet or something not important (濕碎) and 鳩 is a foul language meaning penis or stupid. Combining these two words, 濕鳩 means someone stupid and not important but thought himself as a valuable and important person. Nowadays people don't really care the original meaning of this word, rather they will simply use it to call something is stupid or bad. For example, 19 hardfork means a hardfork which is stupid and bad.
So is the upcoming hardfork 19? Let's see! ;)
When I first saw the topic, I thought that was a serious post as it seems to be about Hard Fork 19 lol But when I looked through it, It turned out to a funny post xd
yup haha there are so many serious posts about HF 19 so let me make a funny one lol
Lol this is the picture from sucess coming from hard working and i love that so much and it is every where. Thanks for putting in cantonese lesson, i love cantonese very much even now i am living in taiwan, hk cantonese just give thing more life the way they use the word.
Yes you are right!!! This pic was so popular and many people made jokes of it
cantonese is definitely a great language that have so many variations and is very interesting as well!
I hope hf19 is no 19system.
ya hopefully. it's coming soon ...
HF19 is successful!!! it can bring revenue to us
yay it turns out the HF19 is not 19 at all! My posts pumped from less than 1 dollar to nearly 10 dollars now! omg this HF is really beneficial to the minnows
not sure if there is continuously like this though? I think people are going to adjust their voting power, so may not be true
Just found this post after the hf19. This is hilarious! Did you photoshoped the picture you used? I think i saw a similar one without the rain or what, I'm not sure.. anyway, thanks for sharing! I think more funny posts like this should come up!
sure I will make more posts of this kind!
haha I found this pic online, some other guys ps it! ya this is really a famous photo in hk
This is fun lol. Would you consider writing more posts about other Cantonese slang? I think Cantonese slang (or some foul language) have interesting cultural background and some of them can be used as verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs, which would be fun to talk about (if talking abt foul languages is considered to be proper lol).
Fairly interesting translation!
thanks for stopping by!
Oh hmmm erm well... nice click bait :<
alright thanks for your upvote anyway :3
but now it bring many minnows rich! not that bad la xDDD
lol, we hope not.
yes hopefully it is a good HF, we will wait and see ;)