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Some great phrases to express 'so much'
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Some great phrases to express 'so much'

Just learned about these very expressive Taigi phrases. So good.

  1. 戇甲有賰 (gōng kah ū tshun)

Foolish to the point of having leftovers.

  • 戇 (gōng): Foolish, silly, stupid.
  • 甲 (kah): To the degree of / so... that.
  • 有賰 (ū tshun): Has leftovers, remaining surplus.
  1. 枵甲大腸告小腸 (iau kah tuā-tn̂g kò sió-tn̂g)

So hungry that the large intestine sues the small intestine.

  • 枵 (iau): Hungry.
  • 甲 (kah): To the extent that.
  • 大腸 (tuā-tn̂g): Large intestine.
  • 告 (kò): To sue, accuse, or take legal action against.
  • 小腸 (sió-tn̂g): Small intestine.
  1. 閒甲掠蝨母相咬 (îng kah lia̍h sat-bú sio kā)

So free/idle that one catches lice to make them bite each other.

  • 閒 (îng): Idle, free, having nothing to do.
  • 甲 (kah): To the point of.
  • 掠 (lia̍h): To catch or capture.
  • 蝨母 (sat-bú): Lice.
  • 相咬 (sio kā): Bite each other.

https://youtu.be/BKmpwgs-7zc?si=ZErYtK_sMxsPPcOp

u/ilzut — 12 days ago
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App for English speakers

I grew up listening to my parents speak in Taigi, but never spoke it myself. A few months ago, I finally decided to learn to speak it. A bit into it, I found the Taiwan Ministry of Education's open source Taigi dictionary data (Taigi <-> Mandarin) and thought it would be a cool project to take that, polish up my web app skills and make a Taigi learning app for English speakers.

https://www.taigiear.com/

It only has a small portion of the original Taigi data from MoE, but hopefully it helps people starting out. My plan is to keep working on bringing in more of the dictionary over time.

Hope it helps.

u/ilzut — 1 month ago