星期一, 11月 01, 2004

BGW

Mf has recently bothered herself intensely with the query - How do you translate Bei Gam Wan?

Being irritating, I told her: Bu Gan Yuan...

:p

As we went on brooding about this for 3 days... she got me feeling as irritable with how there isn't a good enough translation for it in a clearly understood ENGLISH term.

Odiously rejective?
Abhorrent?
Loathe?
Repugnant?

They do not convey the simple idea of reluctance to do something just because you don't PLEASE to do so. They do not convey the element of spite, resentment...

And ultimately... being a purposeful pain in the ass.

Example:

Mr xxx: Hey Huini! Can you help me with (a harmless but will tire Huini out task)?

Huini: Huh? Can don't want?

Mr xxx: Why? Are you busy with something else? Are you trying to lazy? Are you unhappy with me? What's wrong?

Huini: Just don't feel like doing it. Are you saying you can't take no for an answer?

(If there is no choice out of this, then don't ask me. Since it's too late for you to retrack the choice part of the equation, too bad. And ask me so many questions, I just bei song/bu shuang to do ANYTHING you want me to do! )

Or is there a word around that GP C graders like MF and I are unaware of?

:(

Very BGW to see it that way cos of my very egoistic nature...

3 Comments:

At 12:56 下午, Blogger Abigael said...

Please don't hantam me ...

How about "begrudgingly agree to something" ...?

If it helps .. it is also BGG ... along the lines of BGW, BGY leh ...

Split it the word up and is seems like you do something but you bear a grudge.

 
At 2:26 下午, Blogger Irresistible Lobangs said...

eh... Huini ah, pardon my unsophisticated english here.

this BGW thing hor, all the terms dat u've tried such as Odiously rejective? Abhorrent? Loathe? Repugnant? is unfortunately not right still.

these words are not strong enough to depicts the bei gam wan-ness.

as both of us has agreed over the phone dat bei gam wan involves something along the reluctance of swallowing yi kou qi, it is the 'qi' problem what we ve failed to bring it out in those English words.

we need help, you should know the importance of this word to me. i NEED to eqquipped myself with this word in particular for future fights with my biz.

 
At 1:06 上午, Blogger ayu said...

english hbht powerful le. anyway, i am a chinese person, dun really have a wide range of vocab to use.
but latest update, i am very in love with the breakdancer i saw at botanic gdns! feel like chasing after him. LOL!

 

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