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Hory feck

I knowrah hah?

:rock:

They speak mandarin in Taiwan.
I don't so I don't know the answer. I didn't check the video though because I am on my phone.

You're right technically...however, I do believe that there is a Taiwanese dialect separate from the mandarin Chinese.

none the less, Chinese or Taiwanese, hory fruck! is in order.

I'll try to remember to ask my Taiwanese co-worker when I get back to the office in a week.

You have to pronounce it correctly. So either say it with a downward tone, like you might say "NO !" to a dog, or alternatively you sort of sing it like a high pitched "LA !" note.

If it's an exclaimation of shock, just say "tsOW !" in either of those two pitches. It's a simple "fuck !" of surprise. They don't have a way to intensify or deify/blaspheme it with 'holy'.

In that video you might yell "tsOOWW ! wou tsow ! wou tsow ! wou tsow ! wa ! wa !"
(The 'wou' is rather gutteral so say it with a dropping, low pitch. )

The best translation of that would be "FUUUCK ! Oh fuck ! Oh fuck ! Oh fuck ! Wow ! Wow !"

It's written 操 or 草 (Google translate doesn't convert profanity well). The pronunciation 'pinyin' is cào (down tone) or cāo (high tone).

Yes, I have reference books on Chinese profanity. "Wǒ yǒu dàn téng."

I love how the guy who recorded it just slooowwwwwwly backs up after the land slide...

Reverse Entropy wrote:You have to pronounce it correctly. So either say it with a downward tone, like you might say "NO !" to a dog, or alternatively you sort of sing it like a high pitched "LA !" note.

If it's an exclaimation of shock, just say "tsOW !" in either of those two pitches. It's a simple "fuck !" of surprise. They don't have a way to intensify or deify/blaspheme it with 'holy'.

In that video you might yell "tsOOWW ! wou tsow ! wou tsow ! wou tsow ! wa ! wa !"
(The 'wou' is rather gutteral so say it with a dropping, low pitch. )

The best translation of that would be "FUUUCK ! Oh fuck ! Oh fuck ! Oh fuck ! Wow ! Wow !"

It's written 操 or 草 (Google translate doesn't convert profanity well). The pronunciation 'pinyin' is cào (down tone) or cāo (high tone).

Yes, I have reference books on Chinese profanity. "Wǒ yǒu dàn téng."

Both main chinese languages are nuanced as hell. I had a Mandarin-speaking coworker that told me that even between regions a lot of chinese people can't understand each other, even if they're both speaking Mandarin or Cantonese.

That being said, the obvious answer in this case is "Ho Ri Fuk"

Chinese profanity is odd, using eggs and turtles as grevious insults. But there is also a sort of humorous purity to it - "Fuck eighteen generations of your grandmothers !" Not the stuff you actually want to roll out in the real world you understand. You'll end up with Triad gangs slaughtering your family. But stuff like "skull full of shit" and such is truly hilarious.

Harvest wrote:between regions a lot of chinese people can't understand each other, even if they're both speaking Mandarin or Cantonese.

It is a TRIP there. They are both weird and extremely cool. I had a couple of "Manhattan" moments, which I thought were hysterically funny ("yeah, yeah, you know Chinese...great. We're busy. Just point to what you want." ) You can often show a speaker of a different dialect the characters on a phone and they will understand, but verbally...forget it. Particularly among older folks in enclave neighborhoods. You speak Mandarin or Cantonese, they speak Hakka. It might as well be Martian. For all the amazing things about their ancient culture, it's sometimes still -500 BC. Amazing country, can't wait to go back.