hokkien becoming misused in teens?

• LL34

  9 Jul 08, 14:55

  does hokkien sound punk or something? i see teens everywhere only noe how to shout some hokkien vulgarities they dun understand. i was walking and some indian boy walked past me and scolded his fren kanina chaocheebai or something. i was like wtf? kelingkia also know. then i realised hokkien is becoming more and more mis/overused T.T

  
  for example, if someone say hey xxx. u will answer what? or har? 1 syllable. now teens like to use simi taji. 4 syllable. waste breath lah. and i got the hang of the standard cursing format liao. u *insert hokkien vulgar directed and person * kanina ccb *insert hokkien vulgar directed at motherfathersisterbrother*

   

  wahlao eh.

• Pitot

  9 Jul 08, 14:56

  Learn from who? parents lo.

• thehappybunny

  9 Jul 08, 14:57

  liu xing ma

• ChoCoChips

  9 Jul 08, 14:59

  common wad.

  more n more teenagers/kids becoming liddat.

  bo class.

• LL34

  9 Jul 08, 15:01

  hokkien seems to be cool and hip among teens

  i also speak hokkien lah.. but only to my parents (in law)

• fairlady_xoxo

  9 Jul 08, 15:01

  This is called qing qie gan...its an ice-breaker LOl

• Pitot

  9 Jul 08, 15:02

  wad makes u think hokkien is cool and hip among teens? 

  its good that they speak it. preserve culture. but at least master ur own dialect well first before learning how to speak some other.

• LL34

  9 Jul 08, 15:03

  Originally posted by fairlady_xoxo:
  This is called qing qie gan...its an ice-breaker LOl

  but the prob is they r abusing it

• angel7030

  9 Jul 08, 15:04

  last time speak english is cool, now can speak hokkien is cool, wha lau, siao liao.

• ChoCoChips

  9 Jul 08, 15:05

  Originally posted by Pitot:

  wad makes u think hokkien is cool and hip among teens? 

  its good that they speak it. preserve culture. but at least master ur own dialect well first before learning how to speak some other.

  
  it's good that they speak.

  but no gd when they oni use the vulgarities, and most pple oni know those.

   

• Pitot

  9 Jul 08, 15:06

  Originally posted by ChoCoChips:

  
  it's good that they speak.

  but no gd when they oni use the vulgarities, and most pple oni know those.

   

  wad makes them different from people who use vulgarities from other languages? those are not low class to you?

   

• LL34

  9 Jul 08, 15:06

  1. i can tell u 99% of teens who speak hokkien only noe the vulgarities

  2. even if they do speak.. i dun think speaking hokkien to ur peers sounds right.. usually to elders only right o.o

• fairlady_xoxo

  9 Jul 08, 15:08

  ....then if thats the case...we shouldn't speak cantonese, hainanese, and teochew too...

   

  Its just another portal of communication...

• ChoCoChips

  9 Jul 08, 15:09

  Originally posted by Pitot:

  wad makes them different from people who use vulgarities from other languages? those are not low class to you?

   

  
  haha i didnt say got difference did i?

  i didnt say they not low class did i?

• LL34

  9 Jul 08, 15:09

  Originally posted by fairlady_xoxo:

  ....then if thats the case...we shouldn't speak cantonese, hainanese, and teochew too...

   

  Its just another portal of communication...

  my point is not that its wrong to speak dialects.. but its bad to abuse it and to learn it only for the vulgarities. and i can bet at least 2x more people scold knn rather than diu nei mou lou or wutever

• sinicker

  9 Jul 08, 15:11

  cheese pie lah.
  
  no hokkien hor. english.

• youyayu

  9 Jul 08, 15:12

  older generation call us not to use vulgar, they are using themself

• LL34

  9 Jul 08, 15:13

  Originally posted by youyayu:

  older generation call us not to use vulgar, they are using themself

  really ah? when i young i always hear my ahma shout vulgarities when playing mahjong lol

• Maith

  9 Jul 08, 15:18

  i know how to speak hokkien as well as scold vulgarities in hokkien also

• angel7030

  9 Jul 08, 16:05

  Originally posted by Maith:

  i know how to speak hokkien as well as scold vulgarities in hokkien also

  
  ya, i know, u got A+ in Hokkien mah, and you passed the hokkien vulgar oral test too.

• bus555

  9 Jul 08, 16:07

  One quesion: What is fei mah eh? it is some kind of vugurities?

• angel7030

  9 Jul 08, 16:22

  Originally posted by bus555:

  One quesion: What is fei mah eh? it is some kind of vugurities?

  
  that is cantonese lor, it said Fat aunty = Fei ma

• limpper

  9 Jul 08, 16:27

  haha. teens nowadays can really pick up new things fast arh. you when you scold them "fcuk you" they will reply you with a "thank you"? lol.

• Pitot

  9 Jul 08, 16:27

  Originally posted by LL34:

  1. i can tell u 99% of teens who speak hokkien only noe the vulgarities

  2. even if they do speak.. i dun think speaking hokkien to ur peers sounds right.. usually to elders only right o.o

  1. i can tell you that this is stereotyping.

  2. Going by ur logic, the language will go extinct.

• limpper

  9 Jul 08, 16:28

  i mean when you scold them "fcuk you", you think they will reply you with a "thank you'? lol