Learning Chinese from TV Shows
This was what happened at the washroom at The Gardens:My sis and I were preening in front of the mirror when...
Mom: You both look like tong zhi men...
Steffi: Is it? Haha...(wonders why her mom suddenly said that)
Mom: People will think that you are tong zhi men from Japan or Korea
Steffi: Haha...
Steffi: Do I really look like my Elaine's boyfriend ah? I mean, girlfriend.
Mom: Huh?
Steffi: You said we look like tong zhi men...
Mom: I'm not talking about that tong zhi men! Your mind is so corrupted. Tong zhi men means fellow countrymen!
Steffi: How am I supposed to know?! Everytime I hear that word, they refer to "gay/lesbian"! Like how Jiro's character calls himself "tong zhi men" in the Taiwanese drama Hana Kimi when he thought that he fell in love with a boy! Entertainment news also always use that word!
When words have double/hidden meaning...*sigh*
Update: I was told that a more accurate meaning of "tong zhi men" is "comrade". Also, I have finally remembered that I didn't hear that word from Hana Kimi (they used the word "gay" instead), but possibly from another show called "Go Go G-boys - Movie" where there were a bunch of them, and that is probably why they used "tong zhi men" to indicated that they are "comrades". Forgive this banana *bows deeply*
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posted by StephanieC @ 12:45 PM
1 Comments:
Ooohhh... yeaahhh... I just remembered in my Chinese handbook that colloquially, the word 'comrade' has an underlying 'gay' meaning.
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...now you can just imagine big, hairy Russian men calling each other 'comrades' and then giving a cheeky wink to each other...
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