SeaFury 🦜🍃Hey #cantonese people. Are there any word combinations that you find amusing or endearing when directly translated into English! i.e. computer = electric brain. I am making a zine and need ideas.
dounowhoiam.bsky.socialAt #ODEONCinemas for #HermanYau 's #Cantonese crime drama #We’reNothingAtAll / #我們不是什麼 that stars #PatrickTam, #AnsonKong, #Ansonbean, #WongYou-nam and #KearenPang
Tuuli M. (domestic goblin)Turns out there's at least one person out there who nerds out to the #linguistics of #Cantonese kinship terms and terms of address. Kinship is a bit more complex than it is in Mandarin #Chinese and that's already substantially more complicated than in European languages. (Most contemporary speakers don't really know and/or use the fully nuanced terms though. I certainly don't as a heritage speaker.)
#Cantonese comedic sci-fi drama #CiaoUFO / #再見UFO is directed by #PatrickLeungPak-Kin, written by #KongHiu-Yan and #AmyChinSiu-Wai, and takes me to #ODEONCinemas for the first of my two evening movies
sgt1372@MLNow My mother used to take me to a #ChineseOpera for company when I was a child but I hated it because I didn't speak or understand the language (& still don't beyond a very rudimentary level) & the because the sound was so "foreign" & unappealing to me. 🤷♂️
I couldn't even stand to listen to the entirety of the short Chinese Opera audio clip embedded in this article. 🤢
She stopped taking me any Chinese opera performances because I was very vocal about not liking it &, unlike my inability to speak #Cantonese better, I do not regret not attending another Chinese Opera performance since.
OBTW, I don't much like attending or listening to European Opera either. 🤷♂️
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDThe #TorreónMassacre shows why ideology can matter in a revolution, as it happened under liberal #Maderistas, not the leftist #Zapatistas. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1911, 308 #Cantonese from #México's Chinese community were killed in a pogrom, accused of supporting #PorfirioDíaz.
My grandmother was really into Chinese medicine. Herbals stuff and oils and tinctures. This is one of the things she would use on us! I always thought it was from Hong Kong but it’s from Ipoh in Malaysia! It’s the Chinese version of Vick’s vapour rub #cantonese
steve mookie kong@mookie can we start using the #cantonese? because we are not visible on fedi places ❤️ @secretasianman
Anna Anthro“ #AI app being developed to detect drunk drivers through #Cantonese speech analysis “
*Cantonese linguists collectively eye roll*
