Chinese in the workplace

[alphatarget1]

nee ga.. hmm is that mandarin or cantonese? cantonese would sound like "lee gor" for "this" instead.

 

[her209]

I only know cuss words in Chinese.

 

[eakers]

what is a computer ditsy

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: eakers
what is a computer ditsy

disty

 

[DurocShark]

I always heard it pronounced "Knee High" or Nehi. My wife used to work for a Taiwanese company...

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: SexxxyTech
... but i want to know, what does Nee-Ga mean. I dont think they are trying to disrespect blacks, but I hear it everyday. What does it mean. Shay-Shay, did i spell that right?

Pinyin is the official romanization system of the People?s Republic of China. You'll find some info here.

I started getting interested in Mandarin years ago, when I had friends who ran a Chinese restaurant in the same complex where I worked, and, like you, I figured out my own phonetic spelling long before I knew Pinyin existed.

Ni hao = Hello
Xia xia = Thank you (sounds like your shay shay)
Xia xia ni = Thank you very much
hao = good
Heng hao = very good
Bu hao = bad (actually not good. Bu = not)
Zaijian = See you later (pronounced sort of like Tsai chen).

I don't know all the Pinyin for the most important thing I know how to say in Mandarin:

Bu yao wei xing (pronounced Bu yow way jing) = Don't use MSG. :Q

There's lots more, and if you get any good at it, you're almost guaranteed great food and service in a Chinese restaurant.

 

[Ernieb]

Originally posted by: Harvey

Originally posted by: SexxxyTech
... but i want to know, what does Nee-Ga mean. I dont think they are trying to disrespect blacks, but I hear it everyday. What does it mean. Shay-Shay, did i spell that right?

Pinyin is the official romanization system of the People?s Republic of China. You'll find some info here.

I started getting interested in Mandarin years ago, when I had friends who ran a Chinese restaurant in the same complex where I worked, and, like you, I figured out my own phonetic spelling long before I knew Pinyin existed.

Ni hao = Hello
Xia xia = Thank you (sounds like your shay shay)
Xia xia ni = Thank you very much
hao = good
Heng hao = very good
Bu hao = bad (actually not good. Bu = not)
Zaijian = See you later (pronounced sort of like Tsai chen).

I don't know all the Pinyin for the most important thing I know how to say in Mandarin:

Bu yao wei xing (pronounced Bu yow way jing) = Don't use MSG. :Q

There's lots more, and if you get any good at it, you're almost guaranteed great food and service in a Chinese restaurant.

got to be in a restaurant that the stuff who can speak mandarin though

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: Ernieb
got to be in a restaurant that the stuff who can speak mandarin though

Yeah, but OTOH, Cantonese food tends to be pretty bland for my tastes unless they have cooks who can prepare a menu with a broader scope.

 

[Vegito]

nee maa in taiwanese is your mother

 

[dfi]

Just to confirm what others have said. From what you've spelled, it sounds like either "it's yours" or "that".

dfi

 

[wiredspider]

What about those indian people? Our company hires them as contractors to test stuff, whenever I'm there on a tech job they are speaking indian.

 

[BillGates]

I think I'm in the wrong thread. But what the hell is a disty?

 

[richardycc]

Originally posted by: BillGates
I think I'm in the wrong thread. But what the hell is a disty?

nee-ga way of saying distributor?

 

[cchen]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
i don't think so. nee-how or nee-how-ma are the hello/how are you greetings. but those only happen at the beginning of conversations.

i really think what they're saying is derogatory. think about what the word sounds like in english.

you are an idiot.

 

[TranSoft]

Originally posted by: BillGates
I think I'm in the wrong thread. But what the hell is a disty?

omg bill out of all ppl that'd asks.

 

[Ernieb]

disty = distributor

 

[Ranger X]

Nee-Ga isn't racist. I think DannyLove had a thread long time ago on this same topic.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: GeneValgene

Originally posted by: SexxxyTech

Originally posted by: Radiohead
Ne ga paygu hung da!

??????????

ni de pi gu hen da

basically he just said "your butt is very big"

I thought he was saying

Nei ge pai gu hen da = That porkchop is huge!

 

[Vegito]

basically he just said "your butt is very big"

I thought he was saying

Nei ge pai gu hen da = That porkchop is huge!

mmmmmm. pai gu... good

 

[DanTMWTMP]

i always hear my roommate say it when he's talking to his parents...in mandarin..he tells me it means "this"

 

[yhelothar]

this?
i'm mandarin..
this = zuhh
nee or more pronounced like nuhh = that
nuhh guhh, i'm guessing that is what you're hearing.. means "that one"
nee means "you"
ga.. can't think of a word that's ga..

Xia xia = Thank you (sounds like your shay shay)
Xia xia ni = Thank you very much

actually it's like this..
xia xia = thanks
xia xia ni = thank you

 

[Wheatmaster]

lmao take a chinese course!

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
i always hear my roommate say it when he's talking to his parents...in mandarin..he tells me it means "this"

He lied

 

[nativesunshine]

Originally posted by: Radiohead
Ne ga paygu hung da!

Hah! I remember when my ex-bf taught me how to say "i have a big butt" in cantonese. So funny..took me hours to learn a simple phrase.

 

[duke]

I like big butts and I can not lie.