Dwight chooses to sign with Houston

[MaxRider]

google translate always failed
i remember there is this translation from the movie "clash of the titan"
one of the line is "you can call me father"
the chinese translation became "you can use the phone to call me father"
whoever did the translation didn't realize phone doesn't exist in that world yet

mainland chinese don't actually call cantonese 广东话
they call it 白话
i got confuse at first cause i was thinking 白 = white = caucasian
白话 = english???

[moofs]

I also enjoy translating it back and forth a few dozen times to see how many times it starts talking about horses.

[TMU]

so does that mean max isn't chinese or japanese?

Haha

Cantonese is the spoken dialect of the Canton (Re: Guangzhou) region. It's used by about 13 million in China officially, but that number has to be much higher since Hong Kong packs about 7.5 million and the rest of the Special Economic Zone (the actual Guangzhou city and province) has another 13-14 million. That's not including the rest of the chinese populace that learned cantonese for other reasons.

I have seen Koreans, Japanese, Vietnamese, non Guangzhou Chinese, Caucasians, Indians, Pakistanis, African-* people of all walks speak cantonese. To "explode rock" is to excrete voluminously, perhaps even violently. So I can't say anything conclusive about Max's nationality or place of birth. However, the phrase 'to explode rock' is of Cantonese origin.

It is interesting to note that Chinese slang, especially Cantonese, is relatively adaptive. Phrases can flow freely between literal to metaphorical contexts. However, to "explode rock" seldom crosses over from the actual act of passing stools to being full of it or making a big mess in some other sense. For example, while I can easily state that reading Royce White's twitter feed was like being on the receiving end of a boston cream pie, I cannot state that Royce White has 'explode rock' at Daryl Morey via his twitter feed. It doesn't work because it doesn't flow 'right'.

Koreans speaking Cantonese? That's like trying to cool fire with fire. Angry people + fighting words? LOL

[spolgar]

Koreans speaking Cantonese? That's like trying to cool fire with fire. Angry people + fighting words? LOL

Yeah, I played ball with a few Korean expat kids in Hong Kong. Most of them learned cantonese to fit in. That and they weren't suppose to, so the rebellion thing was an additional bonus.

[inquisitive]

so it appears jrue is holding up the rockets ability to officially sign howard...rockets gonna have to wait until jrue returns from his honeymoon

[inquisitive]

so does that mean max isn't chinese or japanese?

Haha

Cantonese is the spoken dialect of the Canton (Re: Guangzhou) region. It's used by about 13 million in China officially, but that number has to be much higher since Hong Kong packs about 7.5 million and the rest of the Special Economic Zone (the actual Guangzhou city and province) has another 13-14 million. That's not including the rest of the chinese populace that learned cantonese for other reasons.

I have seen Koreans, Japanese, Vietnamese, non Guangzhou Chinese, Caucasians, Indians, Pakistanis, African-* people of all walks speak cantonese. To "explode rock" is to excrete voluminously, perhaps even violently. So I can't say anything conclusive about Max's nationality or place of birth. However, the phrase 'to explode rock' is of Cantonese origin.

It is interesting to note that Chinese slang, especially Cantonese, is relatively adaptive. Phrases can flow freely between literal to metaphorical contexts. However, to "explode rock" seldom crosses over from the actual act of passing stools to being full of it or making a big mess in some other sense. For example, while I can easily state that reading Royce White's twitter feed was like being on the receiving end of a boston cream pie, I cannot state that Royce White has 'explode rock' at Daryl Morey via his twitter feed. It doesn't work because it doesn't flow 'right'.

There are Cantonese-Vietnamese too with alot of them being very shrewd business people. My friend speaks Vietnamese with a Cantonese accent and he asks me to correct his Vietnamese all the time...lol

btw, there are some wicked americans that speak fluent cantonese...just really wicked stuff.

[texasholdem]

so it appears jrue is holding up the rockets ability to officially sign howard...rockets gonna have to wait until jrue returns from his honeymoon

royce white is still causing problems for our team.

[MaxRider]

most of those Vietnamese that speak Cantonese is because they were original from China
many people from South China (mostly Guangdong and Fujian providence) moved to Southeast Asia back in the late 1800s to early 1900s for job, war, etc
not everyone in Guangdong speak Cantonese, they have many different languages, Cantonese is the most popular one
less popular one but still well known is Taishanese, lot of old Chinese immigrant in California and New York speak those back in the gold digging era (my mom's uncle is one of them)
those in Fujian mainly speak Hokkien (aka Taiwanese) and Hakka
lot of them in Thailand and Indonesia too, but they aren't allow to use Chinese name so they all have Thai or Indonesia name and some of them forgot the language already
Malaysia and Singapore are the exception
most Chinese there can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, and Hokkien (now you know where i'm from hahaha)
my grandparents original is from Guangdong, we have a local language not well known and even my father doesn't know it, but we know Cantonese pretty well and i watch lot of HK and Taiwan show/movies
when i speak Cantonese people think i'm from HK
when i speak Mandarin people think i'm from Taiwan

[inquisitive]

so it appears jrue is holding up the rockets ability to officially sign howard...rockets gonna have to wait until jrue returns from his honeymoon

royce white is still causing problems for our team.

it is the whole jrue transaction as well as white transaction to make the capspace work for both the sixers and rockets(signing howard to max)...sixers have to get jrue off their team to get white, etc...and we have to get white offboard, etc...so noel nerlins is actually still a pelican until jrue comes back from some resort.

[inquisitive]

most of those Vietnamese that speak Cantonese is because they were original from China
many people from South China (mostly Guangdong and Fujian providence) moved to Southeast Asia back in the late 1800s to early 1900s for job, war, etc
not everyone in Guangdong speak Cantonese, they have many different languages, Cantonese is the most popular one
less popular one but still well known is Taishanese, lot of old Chinese immigrant in California and New York speak those back in the gold digging era (my mom's uncle is one of them)
those in Fujian mainly speak Hokkien (aka Taiwanese) and Hakka
lot of them in Thailand and Indonesia too, but they aren't allow to use Chinese name so they all have Thai or Indonesia name and some of them forgot the language already
Malaysia and Singapore are the exception
most Chinese there can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, and Hokkien (now you know where i'm from hahaha)
my grandparents original is from Guangdong, we have a local language not well known and even my father doesn't know it, but we know Cantonese pretty well and i watch lot of HK and Taiwan show/movies
when i speak Cantonese people think i'm from HK
when i speak Mandarin people think i'm from Taiwan

yep...many that are in saigon(HCM) live in the Cho Lon area ....


btw, how different does Taiwanese sound accent wise from Mandarin? I have a taiwanese friend and he sounds like typical chinese,but i also have a friend from beijing who sounds different when speaking mandarin

[MaxRider]

btw, how different does Taiwanese sound accent wise from Mandarin? I have a taiwanese friend and he sounds like typical chinese,but i also have a friend from beijing who sounds different when speaking mandarin

it's just like American English and British English (British accent)
for Mandarin you guess it right they call it Beijing accent (they twist their tongue more)

[inquisitive]

btw, how different does Taiwanese sound accent wise from Mandarin? I have a taiwanese friend and he sounds like typical chinese,but i also have a friend from beijing who sounds different when speaking mandarin

it's just like American English and British English (British accent)
for Mandarin you guess it right they call it Beijing accent (they twist their tongue more)

i noticed this youtube video where the guy tries to do the beijing accent(end of video) and i have to say it sounds very much like it...lol...my friend sounds like this...lol

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P4vB346GfM[/youtube]

[spolgar]

He even has middle aged beijing male body language down. It's pretty funny.

[texasholdem]

I wonder whatever happened to that Colin Pine guy, Yao Ming's "translator".

[madbucky]

I wonder what happened to this thread? =p

[inquisitive]

back on topic...so the players workout in LA is to get Howard familiar with his teammates? there is plenty of time this summer to do that.

[Zubby]

So i guess its official... "That guy guy who is afraid to fly" is no longer a Rocket.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9474764/philadelphia-76ers-new-orleans-pelicans-finalize-jrue-holiday-nerlens-noel-trade

[GoSixersBro]

Saw this tweet from ESPN's Twitter account. Now I am assuming it is just a Photoshopped picture of Dwight in an Orlando jersey because the pinstripes and numbers suggest so, but personally, I think this would be a sick jersey for the Rockets to switch to.

[zapatasblood]

Did pinstripes and they were ugly ass hell

[MaxRider]

Did pinstripes and they were ugly ass hell

silver pinstripes in white jersey and red outlining may work
just don't put it in the red jersey
silver in red don't match
hey even silver in blue don't match that's why the popular one is the one is silver in black