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Shadowless and shadow

Wu Yia Bor (has shadow (or not)?)
- adjective
1. suspect or suspecting
2. Unreality

After knowing my wife for the past 6 years, I’ve been a hokkien speaking all the while with her, and spending lots of my time with her as well.

My wife and I

I find it interesting in hokkien, since it’s my second dialect, so don’t mind me to come to this situation :)

Hokkien developed the word “Tu Lan” which literally means pig’s penis in English. This is an expressive languge of getting mad or angry over a situation/person/item.

Wu Yia Bor” which literally means has shadow or not in English. This is an adjective of suspesious statement.

Why would it come to this word? The only explanation I can give was that, as long as a thing has no shadow, it is fake, it is a ghost, in short, not a real deal. So shadow is the keyword here.

Example usage: Wu Yia Bor Hokkien an neh ki guai?

2 comments on Shadowless and shadow

  1. Geogy
    April 6, 2010 at 12:43 am

    Bro, you Wu Yia so funny lah… LOL! Next time can try use Hokkien in writing a post up here… hehe…

    Reply
    • wong
      April 9, 2010 at 11:05 pm

      Re-read all those language takes time la…

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