What does the word "la" mean in chinese?

mdchesne

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it means

"hello, my name is Chan. I am from China, though I origionally origionated from Japan where my Uncle lives now. He has a sushi shop on the corner of Fuji and Vine. It good sushi. You should try sometime. I am smart. I go America once I graduate high school. We are all smart here. We all have cell phones. Put we do not call them cell phones. They are better than cell phones. I think you call them laptops... but we have shrunk them and added telephonic communications. Your RAZR is nothign compared to our motorola X1919239393934. Well, I have to go do chores now. Father is home. He watchd Dr. Tran the other night. Funny. Silly American. I talk later. bye bye"

 

captains

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Originally posted by: mdchesne
it means

"hello, my name is Chan. I am from China, though I origionally origionated from Japan where my Uncle lives now. He has a sushi shop on the corner of Fuji and Vine. It good sushi. You should try sometime. I am smart. I go America once I graduate high school. We are all smart here. We all have cell phones. Put we do not call them cell phones. They are better than cell phones. I think you call them laptops... but we have shrunk them and added telephonic communications. Your RAZR is nothign compared to our motorola X1919239393934. Well, I have to go do chores now. Father is home. He watchd Dr. Tran the other night. Funny. Silly American. I talk later. bye bye"

hahahah
 

kogase

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It could mean several different things depending on the tone used. I know none of these several meanings.
 

DaShen

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Originally posted by: mdchesne
it means

"hello, my name is Chan. I am from China, though I origionally origionated from Japan where my Uncle lives now. He has a sushi shop on the corner of Fuji and Vine. It good sushi. You should try sometime. I am smart. I go America once I graduate high school. We are all smart here. We all have cell phones. Put we do not call them cell phones. They are better than cell phones. I think you call them laptops... but we have shrunk them and added telephonic communications. Your RAZR is nothign compared to our motorola X1919239393934. Well, I have to go do chores now. Father is home. He watchd Dr. Tran the other night. Funny. Silly American. I talk later. bye bye"

I am asian. ;) It is funny though because it is true.
 

magomago

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hot?
or maybe you are referring to gunbound kiddies (yes i played that game at a time) who type in engish and add "bah" "loh" "lah" and other stupid stuff to the end of your speech...most of them are singaporian who think they are cool by adding random chinese grammar at the end of what they type ;) basically ignore them, as they are not humans...but rather sub humans who suck at both languages and end up mixing the two ;) :D

the worst part is when the white guy in your dorm walks around and tried to add that stuff into his daily speech:
"You wanna go eat bah?"


(j/k if you are a person that does that ;)
 

Aquaman

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"la" at the end of spoken english sentances is a Singaporian thing.

Cheers,
Aquaman
 

GeneValgene

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Originally posted by: Aquaman
"la" at the end of spoken english sentances is a Singaporian thing.

Cheers,
Aquaman

haha yea...

but 'la' with the 4th tone in chinese, means 'hot' or 'spicy' as mentioned above
 

shopbruin

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need to have context in order to understand it correctly.

i say "ah" at the end of a lot of my sentences, but that's because my chinese was stunted at the age of 5, when i had to speak english all day in school.
 

DaShen

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Originally posted by: GeneValgene
Originally posted by: Aquaman
"la" at the end of spoken english sentances is a Singaporian thing.

Cheers,
Aquaman

haha yea...

but 'la' with the 4th tone in chinese, means 'hot' or 'spicy' as mentioned above

it can be used for slang for hot, as in a girl is hot, too.

Mosh, ni hen la. ;)
 

Skunkwourk

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Originally posted by: DaShen
Originally posted by: GeneValgene
Originally posted by: Aquaman
"la" at the end of spoken english sentances is a Singaporian thing.

Cheers,
Aquaman

haha yea...

but 'la' with the 4th tone in chinese, means 'hot' or 'spicy' as mentioned above

it can be used for slang for hot, as in a girl is hot, too.

Mosh, ni hen la. ;)

are you serious? I would never think to use it like that.
 

HonkeyDonk

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It usually adds the idea/meaning of "completion or change" or "indicating a past event" to the sentence structure/context.

edit: I'm referring to "le" which is found at the end of the sentence and is a very commonly used word.
 

Ophir

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Originally posted by: mdchesne
it means

"hello, my name is Chan. I am from China, though I origionally origionated from Japan where my Uncle lives now. He has a sushi shop on the corner of Fuji and Vine. It good sushi. You should try sometime. I am smart. I go America once I graduate high school. We are all smart here. We all have cell phones. Put we do not call them cell phones. They are better than cell phones. I think you call them laptops... but we have shrunk them and added telephonic communications. Your RAZR is nothign compared to our motorola X1919239393934. Well, I have to go do chores now. Father is home. He watchd Dr. Tran the other night. Funny. Silly American. I talk later. bye bye"
LOL. Now I have the urge to watch "Tokyo Breakfast"