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chenpv -

Hilarious! I see the page number, Skylee 姐姐, did you take that from a book?










skylee -

A freind sent the jpg files to me.










Yuchi -

These are hilarious, thanks Skylee!










文言訓開班 -

Forgive my ignorance, I'm really only used to HK Cantonese.....I read the first few panels, got a
little confused. Is the joke here that the girl's speaking HK Canto and the cat's speaking Chao
Zhou?










文言訓開班 -

never mind my stupid question. Although I am thrown at the choice of characters for 坐(做) and
话(講). also, 咪 is a little irregular, isn't it?










Mugi -



Quote:

Although I am thrown at the choice of characters for 坐(做) and 话(講). also, 咪 is a little
irregular, isn't it?

They're at a bus stop, so 坐 is correct. 話 can act as a verb in Cantonese. 咪 is a contraction
of 唔係 (係咪 = 是不是). If you don't speak Cantonese, the comic strips are a little
difficult to understand.










Quest -

They both speak Cantonese. The joke here is the Totoro lookalike pretends he doesn't understand
and responds with similar sounding phrases.










文言訓開班 -

I speak some Cantonese, but I'm not a native speaker and am not too used to it. I definitely get
the joke, though I don't know all the words and since I'm not native it doesn't tickle me quite
the same way. I'm actually not Chinese, and so I have not grown up with any Chinese language, so
some of my comprehension problems may be a bit basic.

Essentially, what I don't understand are these:
-"你係咪龙猫" -- if I understand you correctly, you say that she's asking if the cat is
indeed a cat? I thought 咪=咩=乜野.
-"我话" -- is this a verb or a noun? Is it pronounced "ngo wa"? I just assumed it was an easier
way to write 我講. 话,话,话...
-"你係咪耍我" -- if 咪=唔 then this is 'are you joking me', but I thought it was 咩=乜野
for 'what're you trying to pull'. My Chinese really isn't that good....
-I guess on inspection of the second strip, "呢度系咪排队买.." makes more sense if 咪=唔
than if it were 咩....










skylee -

"你係咪龍貓" = "你係唔係龍貓" = "Are you Totoro". When we say "係唔係" real fast, it
sounds like "係咪". "咪=咩=乜野" is wrong. This is 龍貓 / Totoro.

"我話" = "I say". It is pronounced "ngo wa". It is NOT an easier way to WRITE "我講".

"你係咪耍我" = "你係唔係耍我" = "Are you making fun of me". Again here "係咪" =
"係唔係". Same for "呢度系咪排隊", which means " 呢度系唔係排队" .












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