Recent trip. Suratthani, day, bookstore / stationery store / print shop on main blvd. "Legacy"-type business; elegant two-story-high gold lettering overlooking street corner. Walk-in visitors maybe not welcome, poss. more focused on wholesale business -- supplying school districts with notebooks, et...

What can I say? First, kudos to everyone for working on behalf of "the Hokkien language". There is good, free information on Tye's website, just unfortunately filtered through an irregular and unreliable "system" of spellings, if it can be called that. Nothing personal, just that irregular "systems"...

although figuring out how to type either using a computer is a different matter.... (as of now doing copy/paste) There are at least two well-tested IME add-ons out there for typing in POJ on any kind of computer. One is made available by 信望愛, the other by the "Chinese Taipei" 教育部. Let me know if U ...

Kolîm, Ū hó siausit (PUN KIND OF INTENDED :P ). Lí nāⁿ bô khìhiâm, ēsái iōng (Kitok) Sèngkeng lâi náⁿ thiaⁿ náⁿ tha̍k. http://www.bible.is/NANTTV/Mark/2 M̄ koh ài sèjī ōo, cit khoán cheh sī beh hōo lâng káipiàn sìn'gióng--ê ōo. :mrgreen: Nāⁿ iáⁿphìⁿ, lí ēsái chōe khòaⁿ Goânkhì Pótián (元氣寶典) ê iáⁿphì...

Chōe tio̍h sin ê culiāu. http://cinokelate.weebly.com/bahasa.html ...orang cina kelantan juga mempunyai dialek hokkien yang tersendiri. terdapat orang yang mengatakan bahawa hokkien orang kelantan adalah hasil campuran bahasa thai dan bahasa kelate dimana berbeza sangat dengan bahasa hokkien yag ber...

Ah-bin, góa māⁿ sī ánneⁿ thiaⁿkóng--kòe, m̄ koh hiah ê culiāu lóng bô siôngsè, bēsu in māⁿ sī thiaⁿkóng--ê niāⁿāⁿ.

Lí nāⁿ ū kihōe, pàithok lí khì hit pêng cáu--ci̍t--cōa--lah. Lí sī Ângmoⁿ, in khah bē pháiⁿsè kā lí kóng.

Khui ci̍t kōaⁿ lâi siu ci̍t kóa KELATE Hokkiàn ōe ê culiāu. Pinnn̂gsū VIVIAN LOK káisoeh Pinnn̂gsū kah KELATE Hokkiàn ōe ê khiuⁿkháu cha: Dialek hokkien terdapat perbezaan yang ketara antara hokkien semenanjung Utara dan hokkien semenanjung Selatan. Dialek hokkien di Kelatan adalah berbeza dengan ho...

Yeah, overall "quality of scholarship" is kind of disappointing for a modern paper. I kind of take exception to the authors treating Kedah Malay as if it was "not really Malay". But yeah, still useful for some things.

Interesting paper. The list at the end is like a hit list. Maybe these are the kind of words that "north of the border" Malays would know.

http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/soon1998malay.pdf

Nāⁿ sī góa ū ci̍t pah bān (ci̍t pah bān), góa beh khì o̍h chân'iá tiāuca liáu'āu lâi tiāuca Bâgán Hokkiàn.

Ta̍kgê hó, thiaⁿkóng còekūn Biántiān ê koáncè ū kái, taⁿ ēsái tùi Thàikok Lalông (siaⁿtiāu bô khaktiāⁿ; Siāmgí ระนอง) ti̍tthàu kòe Biántiān hit pêng liáu'āu sûicāi lâng phapha cáu. http://www.travelfish.org/blogs/burma/2013/08/new-burmesethai-land-crossings-opened/ Sī kóng Biántiān óa Lalông hit tah...

Ah-bin, lú ê WIT sī SHARP AS EVER.

I think there should be two systems, Hanji and romanisation. Each should be capable of being written independently, but of course people can mix and interchange the two where necessary. 我是加減同意ら、不こ目前㑑純唐人字兮系統益干な卡適合純技術性兮寫作にあ。汝咁八㪯純唐人字兮福建文來寫不但技術性兮物仔、比論一篇三千字兮「檳榔嶼歷史介紹」。 Góa sī kekiám tông'ì--la, m̄ koh bo...

I have been leaving them as squares for the time being rather than using the Mandarin ones like 揣 for chhōe get on my nerves. Cán, cán. I've been using "尋" for chōe. This usage was apparently somewhat popular in the 20th century. I like the visual aspect of the kanji too, shading one's eyes with on...

While I also observe a trend that things above all are supposed to look pompous and not necessarily beautiful, I’m not quite sure how that relates to the topic of script-unification. U would have to first agree -- only of your own free will -- that the "MOE Hokkien aesthetic" is based on "Modern St...