A New Dialect

Temperature-taking in class.
Daniel: My temperature is ‘sar-lark POINT chit’ (36.7 in Hokkien)
Kah Wee: (laughing and imitating Daniel) Daniel said ‘sar-lark POINT chit, so funny!
Ms Ng: Kah Wee, the way you said it sounds funny too. Are you a Shanghainese?
Kah Wee: No…no…no. I’m not a Shanghainese.
Ms Ng: A Cantonese?
Kah Wee: No…no…no. Not Cantonese also. I think I am a Hokkienese.
Teachers: Wah haha!!!

Overheard by Mrs Lim Hong Juan @ Casuarina Classroom


26 August 2009

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