Maestro's Birthday

[kimbottles]

Happy Birthday Bob

[JoeP]

Happy Birthday Bob! Another 366 degree trip around the sun, eh? The world would be a duller, less fun place without you and there would not be as many beautiful boats.

Cheers!
Joe

[bob perry]

Thanks guys.

[Soñadora]

Happy Birthday, Bob.

[kimbottles]

Happy Birthday Bob! Another 366 degree trip around the sun, eh? The world would be a duller, less fun place without you and there would not be as many beautiful boats.

Cheers!
Joe

Isn't that the truth, about half the boats that anchor in Blakely Harbor are Perry designs and we enjoy seeing them when they drop in.
(OK, maybe that is an exaggeration, but there are a lot of them and we like seeing them.)

[SloopJonB]

I don't know if you still celebrate your birthday or have reached the stage of mourning it but in either case, have a drink on me.

[Jeff_H]

Happy Birthday Bob,

Welcome to a new year.... of as the ancient Haiku says,

Congratulations
You have survived
To feed
Next year's
Mosquitos

Best wishes for the year ahead,
Jeff

[Orestes Munn]

HB, B and may you have as many more as you wish.

Eric

[Ish]

Happy Birthday, Bob. You're still older than I am and looking to stay that way for a while.

[BeauV]

Happy Birthday, Bob

[cap10ed]

Tip of the hat to you Bob, our pub crowd in Port Dalhousie will take a pull on the keg and toast to your continued health and wit.

[Cherie320]

Happy Birthday Bob and many more to you. Pat

[Jamie]

生日快樂！Happy Birthday Bob!

[Ish]

That didn't say chigga fung pee by any chance, did it?

[Jamie]

No, that would be closer to this: 這個放屁, though not grammatically correct.

You farted! 你放屁了！Ni fang pi le! Could be you really farted, or could be you're talking shit or bullshitting.
You're talking out of your ass! 你講的是屁話! ni jiang de shi pi hua! lit. What you're saying is fart talk.
The laconic version of above: 屁了！Pi le! Farted! Usually used as a retort when someone is bullshitting.
You love talking shit/trash: 你愛講屁話! Ni ai jiang pi hua! lit. you love talking fart.

Chinese know bullshitting and bullshitters well; there are lots of ways to describe bullshitting in Chinese. This is the "fart" way.

But let's not get in the way of Bob's B-day with a lot of 屁話!

[kimbottles]

No, that would be closer to this: 這個放屁, though not grammatically correct.

You farted! 你放屁了！Ni fang pi le! Could be you really farted, or could be you're talking shit or bullshitting.
You're talking out of your ass! 你講的是屁話! ni jiang de shi pi hua! lit. What you're saying is fart talk.
The laconic version of above: 屁了！Pi le! Farted! Usually used as a retort when someone is bullshitting.
You love talking shit/trash: 你愛講屁話! Ni ai jiang pi hua! lit. you love talking fart.

Chinese know bullshitting and bullshitters well; there are lots of ways to describe bullshitting in Chinese. This is the "fart" way.

But let's not get in the way of Bob's B-day with a lot of 屁話!

You must have a very cool and large keyboard Jamie..........

[Jamie]

You must have a very cool and large keyboard Jamie..........

Same keyboard as everyone else....just more crammed on.


Chinese is typed phonetically with ㄅㄆㄇㄈ (in Taiwan) and then you input the tone and select the correct words off of a soft keyboard.

Pre-digital it was something like this:




Anyways: For the Old(er) Man

祝你生日快樂
祝你生日快樂
祝你生日快樂
祝你永遠快樂
zhù nǐ shēng rì kuài lè
zhù nǐ shēng rì kuài lè
zhù nǐ shēng rì kuài lè
zhù nǐ yǒngyuǎn kuài lè

Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Wish You Happy Ever More

[kimbottles]

very cool!

Lots of interesting people on this Scantlings thing.

[bob perry]

Jamie:
I did not know those other "bull shit" sayings.
Is there any way you can add the tones to those so I can learn them?

[Jamie]

See, Maestro knows what he's talking about and asks the right question....

你放屁了！Niˇ fang、 pi、 le!　˙ （neutral) You farted!
你講的是屁話! niˇ jiangˇ de˙ shi、 pi、 hua、! You're talking out of your ass!
屁了！Pi、 le˙! The laconic version of above:
你愛講屁話! Niˇ ai、jiangˇ pi、 hua、! You love talking shit/trash:

Another important word: 囧 jiongˇ It means like something like face-palm - looks like it too - as in my life is so 囧

[bob perry]

Thanks Jamie.
I know "hua" as "flower". Flat tone I think. Right?

But in your examples what does "hua" falling tone mean?
Xie xie low shur.

[Jamie]

Thanks Jamie.
I know "hua" as "flower". Flat tone I think. Right?

But in your examples what does "hua" falling tone mean?
Xie xie low shur.

Hua as in language 話 hua、 中國話 Zhongˉ Guoˇ Hua、＝Chinese language

Flower is this character 花 hua

不謝！ Buˊ Xie、 literally means, "no thanks", but really means, "you're welcome". Informal usage.

[bob perry]

Jamie:
For "you're welcome" I often say "narlie narlie", "there, there". I usally get a smile from that.
I also use "Bu xie".
I don't write in Pinyin. Never leared it. I just use my own phonetics. They are proving inadequate to the challenge.

I am very impressed you do characters. I know about six.

"Ni hen tso ming" See if you can figure that one out.

[Jamie]

"narlie narlie",哪裡哪裡 can be like "you flatter me, don't be polite" 哪裡 means literally, where?

I can follow BP Romanization. So, in this case if you say to me "Ni hen tso ming" , I would say to you, 哪裡哪裡 Naˇ liˇ Naˇ Liˇ

[bob perry]

Jamie:
Hey! We are communicating.
Woa hen she wan.

Ni gay woa mienza.

[Jamie]

Jamie:
Hey! We are communicating.
Woa hen she wan.
Ni gay woa mienza.

We are....I'm really impressed. Ni hao li hai!

[bob perry]

Help me Jamie:
"li hai"?

[Jamie]

Help me Jamie:
"li hai"?

As in 你 ni ˇ好 haoˇ 厲li、 害hai、. Literally "you are so formidable"; semi-slang for "you're awesome".

[bob perry]

That's a new one for me Jamie. Thanks. I have lots of Taiwan "friends" on Facebook so I might get a chance to use that. The Bing translate function gives some very odd results at times.