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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 07:33:54 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   Kid is playing this absolute banger on repeat:

   "As Long As You Huat"

   farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

   youtube.com/watch?v=FcvKzn3n51…

   It's a Chinese New Year's dance beat made by the Singaporean comedy collective that makes the YouTube series "JianHao" about school life in Singapore.

   It's sponsored by supermarket Great and they're singing about spending their stimulus money there. 😊
   【As Long As You Huat】- TITAN 2024 新年歌 (Official Music Video)

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 07:33:53 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Singaporean fedis: What does it mean to "huat"?
   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 07:33:53 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     @clacke It means to prosper.

     Some more information here: https://www.learndialect.sg/common-singlish-phrases-hokkien/

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 07:33:54 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Behind the Scenes:

     farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

     youtube.com/watch?v=dJuXsmH9Vv…

     Love reading all the excited comments in Singaporean English. 😊

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 14:09:22 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson

     @loke Very cool, thank you!

     TIL Tamil is the most common (>50%) Indian-heritage language in Singapore.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 14:09:23 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson

     @loke Oh! It's the "faat" of "gung hei faat choi"! Very topical for the New Year.

     en.wiktionary.org/wiki/恭喜

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 14:09:24 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson

     It's very cool and Singaporean that they even mix in Hokkien in the Mandarin lyrics!

     In most of the Chinese language space people treat different Chinese languages as if they're just different pronounciations, I pronounce it like this, you like that, but it's the "same word", but in Singapore people seem more aware of different Chinese cultural contexts and connotations. "Heng ong huat" is a particular phrase that has to be said in Hokkien, as the equivalent words are not an expression in Mandarin (?).

     I can't easily find exactly what the words "heng ong huat" mean etymologically, the hits I get online are very superficial and pragmatic and don't even mention the Chinese characters. It's not simply "gung hei faat choi" ("gong xi fa cai") pronounced in Hokkien, that would be "kiong-hí hoat-châi".

     @loke

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 18:18:47 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Lyrics, in pinyin + transliterated Hokkien + English:

     matchlyric.com/titan-as-long-a…

   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 01:55:13 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     @clacke You could join this class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOElypTqAjA&list=PLbkxJfdPkevr5BAP0CG60T5YicY6vr_WZ

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