Please listen to this line in this song
bi2
ki2cu3 cua7bhou2 gah8 sai2 lo1li5 比起厝𡥘𡚸合駛羅離|比起厝𡥘𡚸合驶罗离 |
compare
with building a house, marrying a wife and driving an automobile |
比蓋房子娶妻子跟開汽車|比盖房子娶妻子跟开汽车 |
You will hear the singer singing sai2 lo1li5 -
sai2 means to drive
lo1li5 means a car
and I raise this is because people in our homeland say kui1 開 to mean to drive, a word loan from Mandarin.
Sai2 駛 is a very old Chinese word and sai2 cia1 駛車 means to drive a car. Let us be proud that our Teochew language is over thousand years old, where as Mandarin is only around 500 years old.
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