In Cantonese.
In below 2 Cantonese words, how you pronounce it when you address them(your mother's sister's husband)?
Dont mind the meaning, pronunciation matters only

姨丈

or

二丈

?

For the last 15 years. I called them 二丈.

fahamnye

姨丈 , because they are your 姨....二 is Second. maybe there's 二姨丈 for mom's second sister's husband.

i call them moon rune

For me I can speak cantonese and write Mandarin I called my aunt's husband 姨丈 .
the 2nd born aunt's husband sama 姨丈 Because my Cantonese pronouncation is bad.

i call them appa..

oh you're asking about pronunciation issit

the second one. hong kong people also pronounce like that iirc

i call my boss tai lo, sumtimes nam,

people call me chicken, sometimes bro chicken

it is 姨丈 , but i pronounce it as 二丈 in cantonese ofcourse

i called them uncle, settle

Yeah. But it is wrong pronunciation. Misleading culture. LOL

Pronunciation.nikka

misleading culture.

translated for kengkawan 1Malaysia:

So if there is 3 of them in front of u. U call uncle, uncle, uncle?
If u want to call one of the uncle, u call uncle too?
Then 3 of them look at you and scold you "siao lah lu"

This post has been edited by deadboy 164: Jun 29 2012, 02:50 PM

correct. not an issue, at lease u address them 1 by 1, thats called manner. I still see other young boy, Oii or jut Hi.

Uncle Tan, Uncle Lim Uncle Chong lo..

Wtf?

I dont know their surname.

Your sur name is Lee, when teacher shout Lee, do u think the teacher saying to u or other Lee as well in class? Normally u check on eye contact when someone is greeting u. Except is u r BLIND.

This post has been edited by peri peri: Jun 29 2012, 02:53 PM

Agree. Just want to check which is the right pronunciation.

understand, just providing you an alternative way to address

i call them "yi jeong"

i called my mom's second elder sister 姨妈(二妈Pronounce in Conto) her husband 姨丈(二丈)

single word 姨 = yì (fourth sound in mandarin)
but this word come to 姨妈 = yǐ mà (yǐ which is same pronounce as 二)

if you wan to read as yì mà then sounds quite weird lol
but 姨丈 read as yì jíong is ok wor

3 in front of you, just call uncle once. 3in1 settle

What is yi jeong?
What is the actual word in Cantonese?

misleading culture loh.
It sounds weird, but that is the correct pronunciation.

With your eye swiping them ?
biadap lah tu.

me too

I called them shiet

sorry, i'm banana. hav no idea also

"yi jeong" is the canto pronounce. i'm canto

since i call all my mother's sisters "ah yi" <-- should b that yi

yi (4) yi (4)

become

yi (3) jeong (2)...

i call like that but i oso don understand why..

the "yi" u said in Cantonese is "2" in Mandarin. If, u know mandarin then u understand what I mean.
That is wrong actually. But ppl just call only. Misleading culture.

yeah right.

pakcik or uncle. thats it. no need summoning their name.

wrong, u should say cipai instead of cipet

its not "2".... coz when my cousin who speak mandarin call my mom.... they also call her "ah~ yi"

the oldest aunty i called her "tai yi"
the rest is "ah yi"

u must understand that some chinese word when combine with other chinese word, the pronunciation can be different one. same thing sur name, some chinese word when used as surname it will be totally different in pronunciation.

ching chong ching...chong

Basically, u need to know pinyin. U misunderstood what I am saying here.

but it doesnt matter one la.

plus imo the second one sounds much better than the first one

yi (1) jeong yi jeong. so weird lol.

But, what is the proper pronunciation in Mandarin and Cantonese. They say it like that because they already use to that pronunciation. So the correct pronunciation will sound weird.

So the fact here is, it is misleading.

Now, that is another matter about the society.
Stick with the norm or you will be freak.
No, stick with the fact and you will be the boss.

But dont so serious lah. Just want to point out some point. I want share my knowledge only.

Semua ni butthurt or what. Obvious this is asking about Chinese language, so must use Chinese characters la.

This post has been edited by akid123: Jun 29 2012, 04:36 PM

so the thing i say to my chinese friend when they talk chinese (just for fun) say "ching chong chinh chong ching chong" have meaning rupanya..