Hoklo expands to new arenas — the Web and resumes

Hoklo expands to new arenas — the Web and resumes

Sun, Jul 24, 2011 article

“cyber-speak”...has become even more of a riddle lately as Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) is gradually incorporated into popular usage.

For example, the term “older sister” would be written as “阿寄” (Acie), the term “eating rice” becomes “呷奔” (ciaqpng), “matter” becomes “代誌” (taixcix) and “interesting” becomes “促咪” (zhuobi).

This year, more colloquial Hoklo terms have entered the lexicon of the nation’s netizens, including terms such as “安爪” (afnzvoar, meaning “what’s up” in Hoklo), “休跨” (siøfkhoar, meaning “a little” in Hoklo) and “啊嗯勾” (afmxkuo, meaning “but” in Hoklo).

However, the incorporation of Hoklo into cyber-speak is not a new phenomenon as in previous years other terms made their way into cyber-speak, such as “凍蒜” (torngsoarn, meaning “get elected” in Hoklo) and “莊孝維” (zngsiao`ee, meaning “playing dumb” in Hoklo).

好家在...høfkazaix (Harnji: 好佳哉)

Editor's Note: The Harnji shown above are Mandarin-based phonetic approximations. You can find the real Harnji by copying and pasting and using the MTL Toolbox.

See also: LKK

Vocab List

Acie

older sister

ciaqpng

to eat rice/have a meal

taixcix

matter/situation

zhuobi 🔊 (趣味)

(n)interest. (adj) interesting

afnzvoar 🔊

what's up? how goes it?

siøfkhoar

(adj) some/a little/few

afmxkuo, iawmxkøq 🔊 (猶毋過^‡)

(adv) but

torngsoarn

to win an election

zngsiao`ee (裝痟的<sup>‡</sup>/裝痟`ee)

make fun of

høfkazaix

(adj) fortunately

See Also

• Online Abbreviations
• List of Taiwanese Hoklo words commonly found in local Mandarin language newspapers and periodicals