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Firefox addon for reading Cantonese?

BigBadMickBigBadMick
edited March 2008 in Chit chat
Anybody know a firefox add-on I can use to read cantonese in firefox?

I'm going to Hong Kong soon and need to learn a bit of the lingo.

Cheers!
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  • milemile
    edited March 2008
    BigBadMick wrote: »
    Anybody know a firefox add-on I can use to read cantonese in firefox?

    I'm going to Hong Kong soon and need to learn a bit of the lingo.

    Cheers!

    point, shout, wave your passport around, they'll get the message.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2008
    Just do what that guy on that crappy mobile phone ad did, take a photo of a cheeseburger, a pint of beer, and a toilet. Then you can just show the locals the pics on your phone.

    Do this and you may get your phone nicked though :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2008
    mile wrote: »
    point, shout, wave your passport around, they'll get the message.

    Yes of course they will!

    Point and shout, then they come over and beat the shit out of you and then take your passport to sell on the massive blackmarket Hong Kong and it's surrounding areas have.

    Very wise indeed!
    Every night is curry night!
  • milemile
    edited March 2008
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Yes of course they will!

    Point and shout, then they come over and beat the shit out of you and then take your passport to sell on the massive blackmarket Hong Kong and it's surrounding areas have.

    Very wise indeed!

    i was kidding.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2008
    mile wrote: »
    i was kidding.

    I had kinda guessed that :p
    Every night is curry night!
  • BigBadMickBigBadMick
    edited March 2008
    Does anybody actually want to answer my question or is this just another daft, WOS free-for-all, everybody gets their two bobs worth, conversation only tangentially related to the original post? :D
  • milemile
    edited March 2008
    BigBadMick wrote: »
    is this just another daft, WOS free-for-all, everybody gets their two bobs worth, conversation only tangentially related to the original post? :D

    yes, many apologies.

    you could prolly get a phrase book from smiths, it'll have usefull phrases in it, also some usefull advice if you get stuck saying something. people ive spoken to have said a lot of people speak english in hong kong so you should be alright in the shops etc. i wouldn't recomend trying to learn the language, just enough to get by.
  • BigBadMickBigBadMick
    edited March 2008
    mile wrote: »
    you could prolly get a phrase book from smiths,

    Aye, I'm going down to W.H. Smiths in a few mins to get a Hong Kong guidebook, phrasebook and cantonese language course complete with cds :)
  • milemile
    edited March 2008
    BigBadMick wrote: »
    Aye, I'm going down to W.H. Smiths in a few mins to get a Hong Kong guidebook, phrasebook and cantonese language course complete with cds :)

    how long are you going for?
  • beanzbeanz
    edited March 2008
    Its pretty much like English, Just reverse the usage of Ls and Rs..
    Examples.

    Engrish
    Chicken Flied Lice
    I'm velly rate

    etc etc

    (continuing in the free-for-all phase).
  • monty.molemonty.mole
    edited March 2008
    Also, to fit in, wear a lampshade on your head and slant your eyes (as in the Father Ted episode) - that's sure to go down well with the locals...
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2008
    monty.mole wrote: »
    Also, to fit in, wear a lampshade on your head and slant your eyes (as in the Father Ted episode) - that's sure to go down well with the locals...

    Not a racist *click! Not a racist *click! Not a Racist *click!
    Every night is curry night!
  • guesserguesser
    edited March 2008
    look Dougal, there's a perfectly rectangular piece of dirt on the window.
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2008
    Well after wasting about 20 minutes trawling I cannot for the life of me find a video clip of Father Jack jumping out of the cardboard box with the Nazi uniform on.

    Oh well :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • BigBadMickBigBadMick
    edited March 2008
    mile wrote: »
    how long are you going for?

    six nights.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited March 2008
    BigBadMick wrote: »
    six nights.

    6 nights 7 days and 4 asian hookers? :lol:
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited March 2008
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Well after wasting about 20 minutes trawling I cannot for the life of me find a video clip of Father Jack jumping out of the cardboard box with the Nazi uniform on.

    Oh well :D

    "Good for you, Father... They invented gayness!!" :lol:
  • milemile
    edited March 2008
    BigBadMick wrote: »
    six nights.

    remember they can x-ray for things in your tummy.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited March 2008
    mile wrote: »
    remember they can x-ray for things in your tummy.

    You and Marc Almond better not go then.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2008
    beanz wrote: »
    You and Marc Almond better not go then.

    Yup! it would be Mile who collapsed this time :lol:
    Every night is curry night!
  • BigBadMickBigBadMick
    edited March 2008
    I've just found all the really important cantonese words here:

    http://www.cantonese.ca/sex.php

    :D
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