Chinglish Anyone?

I'm abc, so my cantonese isnt great but still good enough to get my points through. but when i find myself struggling for words, i just switch to chinglish and it just cracks my friends up. i actually like chinglish i thinks its fun. =] what do you guys think?

 

doh 媽 mai

 

i thoguht it was chinese spelt with english letters? :S

 

Chinglish has two definitions.

1) According to hkers, Chinglish is the 'poor English' spoken by Hong Kong people.
That's what my HK friends told me. It's true, English of today's generation in HK is not that great.

2) According to overseas Chinese, such as CBCs and ABCs, Chinglish is speaking Chinese using some English words here and there, ie. mix.

So it really depends on how you look at it. But in the case of the the member who started the thread - I think he is referring to definition #2.

 

^ now speak some chinglish lol

 

thats what i understand it as

 

chinglish... it's not bad using that when you speak to ppl lol
and yeh chinglish to me is definition 2 from the post up there.

 

I just get utterly confused - my chinese is getting worse by the day and so just end up speaking in engligh

 

I am a CBC. Most of the time I try to speak pure Chinese at home but sometimes it's easier to speak chinglish. Especially between my siblings~ Although, my parent's friends said that they are amazed by my level of Chinese since I am cbc~

 

LOL. no chinglish is when someone dont know how to express themselves fully in chinese so they mix english and chinese. chinese +english= chinglish! =D

 

That's what happens with me. Sometimes, my Chinese isn't good, and there is some vocabulary that I'm not familiar with, so whenever I want to express myself with more advanced terminology, I would have to use English in place of the Chinese words that I don't have a grasp of... So...I speak Chinglish ALL the time, even though I try not to sometimes, but it's hard as I'm an ABC...

 

I think I am addicted to Chinglish and (how to call "Chinese German"? ). Everytime I don´t know how to express myself to my parents or my relatives I´m unsin Chinglish or the "Chinese German" thingie ^^

 

chinglish is the #2 for me as well...

 

lol, yeahh.. same here. I define Chinglish as #2 . I always speak chinese with english in it. hahaha.
Sometimes its much easier and quicker to speak in english. lol.

 

i'm one for the Chiglish too. We bbcs just start talking like this without any effort. it's cool! hehe

 

lOls!

CHINGLISH is KOOLS! lols!

but i tend to forget to speak english to a friend sometimies >.<" like eg calling my friend "jie jie" out of no where LOLS! i cant help it! -what?

Lols. ABC roX!~

 

CHinglish all the way!!! some words just flow better when spoken in English...at least for me