what chinese word sounds like awesome dude?

[TechBoyJK]

A few guys I work with are Chinese and I'm pretty sure they are speaking mandarin. I keep hearing something like "Nigguh" or "awesome dude" when they talk. Seems to be some kind of affirmation or something.







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[Auggie]

ni-ka-something?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

duh, they're talking about the african american dude walking down the street that's about to rob their laundromat.

 

[ric1287]

its their "filler" word. Like how english uses "like" or "um"

(at least thats what Russel Peters says )

 

[Clair de Lune]

ROFL, my GF is chinese and I've been making fun of the same thing. And I just showed her this thread right now. She LOL'ed and said neeka means 'this one'.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Auggie
ni-ka-something?

yea that could be it.. the K sounds kinda soft when they say it though.

 

[JS80]

i lol at it too. sound "nee-ga."

 

[ivan2]

Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
ROFL, my GF is chinese and I've been making fun of the same thing. And I just showed her this thread right now. She LOL'ed and said neeka means 'this one'.

wait, i think i know what they are talking. it actually meant "that one"...

nvm lol

 

[TuxDave]

Nei-ga = THAT

 

[nakedfrog]

Now I want to watch Tokyo Breakfast again.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Na ge (pronounce nah-guh)

 

[Sust]

???

 

[dennilfloss]

My ex-wife is Malaysian Chinese and she kept saying 'la' at the end of so many sentences when she spoke with her folks.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Originally posted by: Sust
???

?

 

[ivan2]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
My ex-wife is Malaysian Chinese and she kept saying 'la' at the end of so many sentences when she spoke with her folks.

i thought only taiwanese do that shit.

 

[IGBT]

where did I park my tluck??

 

[biggestmuff]

Tokyo Breakfast

 

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: ivan2

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
My ex-wife is Malaysian Chinese and she kept saying 'la' at the end of so many sentences when she spoke with her folks.

i thought only taiwanese do that shit.

Maybe it's something in the hokkien/tiou tchou dialects she spoke or maybe it's a Malaysia thing too.

 

[ChaoZ]

Ni ge (This one)

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: Sust
???

now we know that the first character is prounoucned as na4.

but where the most hilarity comes from are those who pronounced na4 as 'nei4'...and quite a few people do pronounce it like that

nei4ge4 is a lot more 'closer sounding' to awesome dude than na4ge4

 

[OCGuy]

Nigwa

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

It means THAT ONE.

That's exactly what McCain meant in debate #2. It was a reference.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
ROFL, my GF is chinese and I've been making fun of the same thing. And I just showed her this thread right now. She LOL'ed and said neeka means 'this one'.

hahah

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Nei-ga = THAT

Nee go.

 

[Ns1]

Tokyo breakfast ftw