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[Satan]

Death is final. There is nothing after death. Zilch. Life is finite. Make the most of it with the time you have left.

You are so very wrong. Peddling porn is a sin and you have committed it. So you will come to my domain, hell after your death, to suffer, to have your ass screwed by my Mangali trolls in hell for all eternity!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA........

 

[masgnoeL]

My ancestors were from Burma.

A graphic I made, showing some of the linguistic diversity found in the Burmese language.

Burmese has a hodgepodge of words that come from other languages, some that would surprise most people, at least me. It’s a given that many Burmese words come from Pali (from Buddhism) or English (from colonial rule), but quite a number of words also come from obscure and seemingly unrelated languages to Burmese. I’ve compiled a list of the most interesting ones.

• The Burmese word for noodles, khauk hswe (ခေါက်ဆွဲ) comes from Shan ‘khauk hswoi’. Perhaps it’s just me, but I would have expected the word to have been native in Burmese, considering how ubiquitous it is in Burmese cuisine.
• The Burmese word for flag, a lan (အလံ) comes from Arabic ‘alam’. This one was shocking to me, because Arabic seems like a very unlikely language to have influenced Burmese. But I was mistaken, because Arab traders first made contact with Burma during the 1400s and their ships probably carried flags, a term not present in the Burmese language at the time.
• The Burmese word for fish sauce, ngan bya yay (ငပြာရည်) comes from Thai ‘namplah’. I always thought the ngan in ngan bya yay means “salty” (because salty is ‘ngan’ in Burmese), but I found out today, for the first time, they’re spelled differently in Burmese.
• The Burmese word for gun, tha nat (သေနတ်) comes from Dutch ’snaphaan’, which is a very primitive firearm. At first thought, one would wonder how a Dutch word became incorporated into the Burmese language. However, it is because the Netherlands’ Dutch East India Company first began trading in the 1600s with lower Burma and ended in the early 1700s. With the Dutch came their guns, and thus their word for gun was incorporated in Burmese. It’s also interesting to note that in Burmese, the ‘th’ sound represents the ’s’ sound (that’s why the Thai Songkran is Thingyan in Burmese), so back then, Burmese speakers might have said sanat.
• The Burmese word for pineapple, na nat thi (နာနတ်သီး) comes from French ananas. The French were not as intimately tied in Burmese history as the British, but they apparently did make come cultural contributions. I’m assuming that the French either traded pineapples or introduced pineapple cultivation in Burma during the late 1800s (according to the Burmese government website).
• The Burmese word for money, pat hsan, also pronounced paik san (ပိုက်ဆံ) comes from Hindi ‘paik sa’. I remember watching several Bollywood movies, including Taxi No. 9211 (which was a good film), where the characters constantly said ‘paik sa’ or something along those lines whenever the word ‘money’ popped up in the subtitles. Perhaps coincidence, I thought, but I was mistaken. Hindi lent Burmese the word for ‘money’, which one would assume is a very basic word. I assume that the word was probably was carried over when Burma was an British Indian province.
• The Burmese word for window, ga dwin pauk (ပြာတင်းပေါက်) comes from Mon ‘batang’. This one took me by surprise, in both its spelling and its origin. I always used to wonder why people say ga dwin pauk, even though it’s spelled pya tin pauk. But I guess a lot of architectural terms, even those as basic as window, come from Mon, because Burmans adopted a lot of Mon culture.
• The Burmese word for clothing or shirt, ein gyi (အင်္ကျေး) comes from Hindi ‘amgiya’. This is very interesting, because the modern Burmese longyi comes from India, the result of British colonization (beforehand, the Burmese longyi was more elaborate and looked similar to Thai sarongs). Apparently the Burmese borrowed more than the sarong from India.
• The Burmese word for foot (the measurement), pay (ပေ) comes from Portuguese ‘pé’. This was absolutely shocking. Myanmar is almost an anomaly in not using the metric system for measurements. It uses a wide range of traditional measurements like peiktha and English measurements like the pound. Originally, I assumed that pay was an attempt to sound out English “foot”, because Burmese has no equivalent sound for the “f” sound and usually substitutes the “p” sound. But, it’s interesting that the Burmese word for foot actually comes from Portuguese, and I have no idea how they introduced the word into Burmese. Also interesting is the Burmese word for water fountain/water tap, bone hmaing, also pronounced bone baing (ဘုံဘိုင်), which comes from Portuguese as well.
• The Burmese word for garage or warehouse, go daung (ဂိုဒေါင်) comes from Malaysian ‘godong’. I’m not sure how this word transferred into Burmese, but my guess is that during British rule, Malaysian shippers and traders who transported goods to and from Burma introduced this word into the general populace, or that because lower coastal Burma is so close to Malaysia that a few words such as garage slipped into the Burmese vocabulary.

 

[Leongsam]

You are so very wrong. Peddling porn is a sin and you have committed it.

Porn? What Porn? No porn is allowed here. I have nothing to do with porn whatsoever.

 

[VIBGYOR]

Death is final. There is nothing after death. Zilch. Life is finite. Make the most of it with the time you have left.

how do you know? have you died before?

 

[masgnoeL]

Jah_rastafar_I

Time for you to rise up a bit from the low life low level rathole you are now living in.

It's a cb hole, not a rathole. He is a spamming bastard who goes around spamming threads with his stupidity and now he calls another a troll when he is one himself.

 

[khunking]

Without the Junta, cyclone hit Burma would have been a criminal haven.

My ancestors were from Burma.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

It's a cb hole, not a rathole. He is a spamming bastard who goes around spamming threads with his stupidity and now he calls another a troll when he is one himself.

How do u knwo it's cb hole? U had a hand in it??


Yes thanks for stating the obvious, he's been spamming many forums for many years.

 

[po2wq]

...Just then, the Chinese guy leaps out from behind the pile of sand and yells...

'SUPPLIES!!'

eureka! ...

now me perfectly understand y u chose ur url ... www.singsupplies.com! ...

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

eureka! ...

now me perfectly understand y u chose ur url ... www.singsupplies.com! ...

Old joke.

ANyway not even chinese, thais too and many ppl with eastern type of education.

Pronuce words that have Rs in them as L such as Arai as Alai or roi or loi.


FLied lice prease.

comprain, fluck your mothel.

 

[banova888]

he's anyone he wants to be. Iranian, burmese, african, dun bother chatting with a troll.

Takes a better one to know one.

 

[banova888]

Jah_rastafar_I

Time for you to rise up a bit from the low life low level rathole you are now living in.

Let rats stay where they are comfortable. Rats are killed only when they surface from their shit holes. Jah_rastafar is safe as long as he stays in his rat hole.

 

[banova888]

<center>An Italian, a Scotsman and a Chinese fellow

</center>An Italian, a Scotsman and a Chinese fellow are hired at a construction site.


The foreman points out a huge pile of sand and says to the Italian guy, 'You're in charge of sweeping.'


To the Scotsman he says, 'You're in charge of shoveling.'


And to the Chinese guy, 'You're in charge of supplies.'


He then says, 'Now, I have to leave for a little while. I expect you guys to make a dent in that there pile.'


So the foreman goes away for a couple hours and when he returns, the pile of sand is untouched.


He asks the Italian, 'Why didn't you sweep any of it?'


The Italian replies, 'I no hava no broom. You saida to the Chinese a fella that he a wasa in a charge of supplies, but he hasa disappeared and I no coulda finda him nowhere.'


Then the foreman turns to the Scotsman and says, 'And you, I thought I told you to shovel this pile.'


The Scotsman replies, 'Aye, ye did lad, boot ah couldnay get meself a shoovel! Ye left th' Chinese gadgie in chairge of supplies, boot ah couldnayfin' him either.'


The foreman is really angry now and storms off toward the pile of sand to look for the Chinese guy ...Just then, the Chinese guy leaps out from behind the pile of sand and yells...


'SUPPLIES!!'

LOL!

Check out this blog.

http://lichao.net/eblog/funny-english-translations-to-some-signs-in-china-200805140.html

 

[banova888]

More at

http://lichao.net/eblog/funny-english-translations-to-some-signs-in-china-200805140.html

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Let rats stay where they are comfortable. Rats are killed only when they surface from their shit holes. Jah_rastafar is safe as long as he stays in his rat hole.

hi keling haven eaten ur cow dung yet???

 

[imperialarms]

Death is final. There is nothing after death. Zilch. Life is finite. Make the most of it with the time you have left.

tt's quite interesting. but do u truly not fear death?