Chinese languages

Ok, thanks Andrew. The words tsui-loh tsui-peng-peng sound familiar but equally don't recall the meaning.

Casting my mind back several decades now, I recall reciting children's rhymes as a kid but can't seem to recall them now. They were generally nonsensical (at least to me) but always got a good chuckle or two when recited. One rhyme in particular used to pick someone who was "in" during a g...

Perhaps this is different sides of the same coin but my experience with the word "liáu" is more akin to the concept of "already". In the example you gave "He became a teacher" could perhaps be expressed as "I cho sin-seah liau" (as distinct from "I si sin...