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Wayne
커뮤니티 튜터Chinese (Fookien)
Hi guys! Did you know that the word italki has a word play in chinese (Fookien) which means "I love to go home?"(愛回家) :)
2017년 6월 21일 오전 7:42
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大家好!你知道在italki上, (Fookien)闽南语里意为 “我爱回家”的单词吗? Why did you write “italki has a word”?Sorry,I cannot speak Fookien.I don‘t know that word.
2017년 6월 21일
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Hi bai :) I wrote "italki has a word play". A word play is a term that uses a word but not usually it's meaning. Hence the play. This is synonymous to a pun. One example I could give is this:
Hey Steve, you are playing the guitar so loud that it's giving me mu-sick (music)!
Fookien, Hokkien or amoy is a dialect that can be found in China, a portion of taiwan and in the Philippines. Hope you learned something :)
2017년 6월 22일
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Hi Phil! :) I think the word "italki" can be read as /ai-toki/. It could be a short cut to the phrase "I'm talking", not sure. Regarding the Hokkien expressio, the "I"is the 愛, "to" is the 回, and "ki" is the 家 or you can also use the word 去。
2017년 6월 22일
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I believe Wayne is saying that the Hokkien pronunciation of 愛回家 is similar to the word "italki." It's actually debatable how "italki" should be pronounced – in English, I say /aitɔki/, but others may say /aitɑki/ or /aitɔkai/. In other languages, it's pronounced as written /italki/.
Wayne, getting back to the Hokkien expression – I'm curious as to where the T comes from – is it the final of 愛, or the initial of 回 ?
2017년 6월 21일
Wayne
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중국어(북경어), 중국어(광동어), 중국어(호키엔어), 영어, 필리핀어(타갈로그어)
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중국어(북경어), 영어
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