Wednesday, May 11, 2011

In A Complicated Relationship...=\

During a Chinese wedding dinner Ah Hock ask his 3 years old son Meng to greet and address all the elderlies. Its a common practice among the Chinese to greet each others to show politeness. And here Meng goes one by one:

"AhGong, AhPuo, DaShu, ErShu, ShanGu, SanShuMu, XiaoGu, XiaoShu, SanGuZhang, XiaoGu, XiaoGuZhang, BiaoShu, BiaoErShu, TangShu, TangShuMu, DaYima, ErYima, XiaoShuGong, etc.." 

Did you see a rainbow? Because the chinese are colourful. Pity little Meng. Okay. Now lets twist the situation a lil. Everything remains the same except that we change all the characters into English people. Ah Hock becomes John and Meng becomes Little John. He greets all the elderlies too one by one and here he goes:

"Grandpa, Grandma, uncle, uncleaunt, aunt, aunt, uncle, uncleaunt, uncleuncleuncle  uncle  auntauntauntuncle, etc.."

AND I really can't deny that Chinese has a real complicated relationships. Lets get an example. Who is TangShuMu? She is your father's father's grandpa's brother's wife. And who is ErYima? To be frank, I also can't remeber......too.

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