{"id":58949,"date":"2023-06-06T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=58949"},"modified":"2023-06-07T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:47:17","slug":"sinitic-exclamations-in-english-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=58949","title":{"rendered":"Sinitic exclamations in English speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to Malaysian comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigel_Ng__;!!IBzWLUs!VUTnDkZRyUqKXpy5wk1FBUAZNXyNw9Mvanq9Ik52CINCxpLxsV8m--Kk2CwDOJ_OSWLy5Yo8T2QPNE05$\">Nigel Ng (aka \"Uncle Roger\")<\/a>, who has had his <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sina_Weibo__;!!IBzWLUs!VUTnDkZRyUqKXpy5wk1FBUAZNXyNw9Mvanq9Ik52CINCxpLxsV8m--Kk2CwDOJ_OSWLy5Yo8T3ps0bIm$\">Weibo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bilibili__;!!IBzWLUs!VUTnDkZRyUqKXpy5wk1FBUAZNXyNw9Mvanq9Ik52CINCxpLxsV8m--Kk2CwDOJ_OSWLy5Yo8T5EvJodF$\">bilibili<\/a> social media accounts banned due to \"violation of relevant regulations\":<\/p>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The ban comes one day after Ng uploaded this clip to various social media platforms. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Wwf2aTrfZ\">pic.twitter.com\/8Wwf2aTrfZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Aaron Busch (@tripperhead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tripperhead\/status\/1659576757169831936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>Under the subject line \"Uncle Roger predicts his own cancelling on Weibo: 'Taiwan not a country' (sarcastically)\", AntC sent me the following message:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Another example of how thin-skinned is CCP.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Uncle Roger (comedy persona of Nigel Ng, if you don't know him) is a Malaysian-born UK comedian. I love his use of Hokkien \/ Cantonese \/ Hakka interjections. Haiyaa.<\/p>\r\n<p>Here's a newspaper article about the incident:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/4897998__;!!IBzWLUs!VUTnDkZRyUqKXpy5wk1FBUAZNXyNw9Mvanq9Ik52CINCxpLxsV8m--Kk2CwDOJ_OSWLy5Yo8T5vZkiH1$\">Uncle Roger canceled in China after joking about Taiwan, Xi Jinping<\/a><br \/><br \/>Malaysian-born comedian Nigel Ng's Weibo, Bilibili suspended after satirical clip shared online<br \/><br \/>By Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News (5\/21\/23)<\/p>\r\n<p>AntC continues:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He posted a short clip of a stand-up routine, featuring his usual heavy satire. He even predicted it'd get censored. He was right.\u00a0 See the tweet with which this post begins.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Oh, by the way, during the pandemic lockdowns, when Uncle Roger couldn't do stand-up, he took to commenting on British TV cookery programs &#8212; especially those attempting Asian dishes. Noting <a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=58720\">our recent LLog thread<\/a>: he has several on YouTube on crimes against Pho. Also Jamie Oliver's 'The worst Thai Red curry'.\u00a0 [VHM:\u00a0 I've seen some of these videos; they are hilarious.]<\/p>\r\n<p>Some of my favorite foreignisms are exclamations and interjections:\u00a0 oy (Yiddish), wah (Cantonese), b\u0101phre b\u0101ph (Nepali), lah (Singlish).\u00a0 You don't have to worry about their semantic content or grammatical usage.\u00a0 All you have to do with them is emote.<\/p>\r\n<p><b>Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to New Singaporean and Hong\r\n        Kong terms in the OED\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=25672\" rel=\"bookmark\">New Singaporean and Hong Kong terms in the OED<\/a>\" (5\/12\/16(<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Wawa\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=57271\" rel=\"bookmark\">Wawa<\/a>\" (12\/8\/22)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to The wonder of Cantonese\r\n        particles\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=38229\" rel=\"bookmark\">The wonder of Cantonese particles<\/a>\" (5\/14\/18)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to \" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=39589\" rel=\"bookmark\">'B\u0101phre b\u0101ph!' \u2014 my favorite Nepali expression<\/a>\" (8\/12\/18)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Blocked on Weibo\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=6163\" rel=\"bookmark\">Blocked on Weibo<\/a>\" (8\/23\/30)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to \" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=58621\" rel=\"bookmark\">'Idon't think it exactly qualifies as language'<\/a>\" (5\/4\/23)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng (aka \"Uncle Roger\"), who has had his Weibo and bilibili social media accounts banned due to \"violation of relevant regulations\": The ban comes one day after Ng uploaded this clip to various social media platforms. pic.twitter.com\/8Wwf2aTrfZ &mdash; Aaron Busch (@tripperhead) May 19, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330,276,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-code-switching","category-multilingualism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58949"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59022,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58949\/revisions\/59022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}