Does Po Speak Chinese?
Bryant Griffin
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Kokobeen
Cantonese (usually as she is coasting downhill). When she walks her scooter
uphill she says "slowly, slowly, slowly." There have been several spellings
of the Cantonese words: Fadit, fadit, fadit = quickly, quickly, quickly.
Mar, mar, maan = slowly, slowly, slowly. Sometimes Po will speak these
words when she's not on her scooter. In the ep where the tubby toaster went
nuts, Po got out of bed and tiptoed gingerly over all of that toast saying
"mar, mar, maan." She also counts up to 3 in Cantonese.
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Eifion Bedford
>Yes. When she's on her scooter she says "quickly,quickly, quickly" in
>Cantonese (usually as she is coasting downhill). When she walks her
scooter
>uphill she says "slowly, slowly, slowly." There have been several
spellings
>of the Cantonese words: Fadit, fadit, fadit = quickly, quickly, quickly.
>Mar, mar, maan = slowly, slowly, slowly. Sometimes Po will speak these
>words when she's not on her scooter. In the ep where the tubby toaster went
>nuts, Po got out of bed and tiptoed gingerly over all of that toast saying
>"mar, mar, maan." She also counts up to 3 in Cantonese.
Up to five sometimes: yat yi saam sei wu, I think, which rather confused me
when I started learning Mandarin (yi, er, san, si, wu)...
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Kokobeen
Cantonese that Po speaks are an easy way for "english only" children to be
introduced to another language. It also works for "english only" adults. I
learned how to say "quickly", "slowly" and to count to 3 in Cantonese
because of Po. I never knew these words before.
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Kokobeen
pond to the USA yet. I've never heard Po count beyond 3. Yat, yi, saam =
1, 2, 3. That's all I've learned so far.
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In a previous post, I said:
She also counts up to 3 in Cantonese.
Then, Eifion Bedford replied:
Skyresh Bolgolam
>Because many children speak more than one language. The tiny bits of
>Cantonese that Po speaks are an easy way for "english only" children to be
>introduced to another language.
Well said. That encouragement certainly won't harm the American kids
who are watching. We've been a nation of (mostly) monoglots for too
long, so proud that English is "becoming the world's language," so we
won't have to put forth the effort to learn any others.
Of course, I shouldn't talk. I know a few snippets of other
languages, but I'm really a monoglot too.
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Stephen McElroy
Chinese numbers makes it go "one, two, three, death!" etc.
DEATH!
It's that pitch thing mentioned below,
Stephen
In article <36df1670...@news.pmr.ihug.co.nz>,
mr-p...@blah.geocities.com.blah wrote:
> i've heard her goto 5 once.... (I live in NZ)... and for the record
> its more like
>
> yat, yee, sarm, say, mmm
>
> then you can go
>
> lok, chut, bart, gaow, sup
>
> to get to 10 :)
>
> my gf was born in HK and is trying to teach me cantonese... I'm
> useless coz i cant work out the pitch thing... in cantonese pitch has
> alot to do with things... so mmm, mmm, and mmm can all mean different
> things with a slightly different pitch...
>
> this is why 4 is not a favourit number in alot of Cantonese things...
> coz "say" is similar to the word meaning death/dead (i cant exactly
> remember which)
>
> MrPinga
>
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German blonde be like?
Tina
>She does?!? Okay, but she's a German blonde. LOL
>
Elizabeth Overbaugh
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Tina
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tubby chick!
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Stephen McElroy
<CF849CF3544DA75F.21B2C943...@library-proxy.airnews.net>,
bwc...@airmail.net (Brandon Campbell) wrote:
> In article <smcatut-0403...@dial-114-41.ots.utexas.edu>,
> smc...@mail.utexas.edu (Stephen McElroy) wrote:
>
> > My girlfriend told me that singing the "Sing a song of four" tune with the
> > Chinese numbers makes it go "one, two, three, death!" etc.
>
> That brings a whole new meaning to that episode! Apparently the moral of
> that story was that there's no escaping death - everyone dies eventually.
>
> --
> Brandon Wayne Campbell
Yes. Forget that Falwell sexual analysis of the Tubbies; theirs is an
existential struggle!
Stephen
Skyresh Bolgolam
>There is no such language as Chinese.
It's an arguable point. I think most would agree and prefer to say
that Chinese is a *family* of languages that includes Cantonese, Po's
secret language.
Eifion Bedford
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>There is no such language as Chinese.
>
different dialects, but the written language is the same across China.
Eifion - Chinese learner.
Bun Mui
> Re: Does Po Speak Chinese?
>
> From: "Eifion Bedford" <ei...@laa-laa.demon.co.uk>
> Reply to: [1]"Eifion Bedford"
> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:29:46 -0000
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>>Yes. When she's on her scooter she says "quickly,quickly, quickly" in
>>Cantonese (usually as she is coasting downhill). When she walks her
>scooter
>>uphill she says "slowly, slowly, slowly." There have been several
>spellings
>>of the Cantonese words: Fadit, fadit, fadit = quickly, quickly, quickly.
>>Mar, mar, maan = slowly, slowly, slowly. Sometimes Po will speak these
>>words when she's not on her scooter. In the ep where the tubby toaster went
>>nuts, Po got out of bed and tiptoed gingerly over all of that toast saying
>
>Up to five sometimes: yat yi saam sei wu, I think, which rather confused me
>when I started learning Mandarin (yi, er, san, si, wu)...
>
I was disaappointed when Po didn't count to 5 in Cantonese in "The
Counting Game", since all the other Teletubbies counted 1 to 5 in
different languages, but she didn't do so in the end.
Bun Mui
Bun Mui
> Re: Does Po Speak Chinese?
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> Reply to: [1]Skyresh Bolgolam
> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 08:34:11 GMT
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Chinese people speak either Cantonese or Mandarin mostly.
The written form in Chinese characters is basically all the same.
Bun Mui
Jeffrey C Rosenwald
cool the way he says "Eeeeyoooww" at the spilled "cubby tustard". And
there is only one Tinky Winky. He's just a big, lovable, clumsy goof!
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> Sorry to be stupid (and I'm not even blonde! LOL) but what exactly would a
> German blonde be like?
She calls Tinky-Winky "Tinky-Vinky". She also says "dee" between every
other word, which could be taken as the German word "die" meaning "the".
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Elizabeth Overbaugh
Of course, then again, they used to teach Conversational Klingon a few years
back. LOL
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