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    Dirty Chinese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"
    Dirty Chinese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"
    Dirty Chinese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"
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    Dirty Chinese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"

    By Matt Coleman and Edmund Backhouse

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    Foul your mouth—while expanding your Mandarin vocabulary—with a guide to the phrases that could get you a laugh . . . or a punch in the face.

    Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in Chinese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:
    • Cool slang
    • Funny insults
    • Explicit sex terms
    • Raw swear words


    Dirty Chinese teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of China:
    • What’s up? Zenmeyàng?
    • Fuck it, let’s party. Qù tama, zánmen chuqù feng ba.
    • Who farted? Shéi fàng de pì?
    • Wanna try doggy-style? Yàobù zánliar shìshì gou cào shì?
    • Son of a bitch! Gouniángyang de!
    • I’m getting smashed. Wo ganjué heduo le.
    • I can’t eat this shit! Wo chi bù xià qù!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 9, 2010
    ISBN9781569757970
    Dirty Chinese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"

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      Book preview

      Dirty Chinese - Matt Coleman

      CHAPTER 1

      HOWDY CHINESE

      011012

      Hello

      013014

      Back in the day, the standard greeting was Hi, Comrade, but thanks to the perfidious influence of the debauched Taiwanese, saying that these days will make you sound like a friend of Dorothy to pretty much anyone under age 50. There are many ways to greet people in China, starting from the more formal 015 progressing to the less formal but equally boring 016 and ending up in 017 Fuck. Chinese greetings cover all the important facets of life: food, what you are up to, obvious observations on what you are currently in the act of doing, and live bulletins on breaking bowel events.

      Hi

      018019

      Hey

      020

      021 .

      Have you eaten yet?

      022023

      I’ve got diarrhea.

      024025

      Have you still got diarrhea?

      026027

      In traditional Chinese towns, most families didn’t have their own

      toilets, they’d share communal facilities, and it was common to

      greet your neighbors as you entered or exited the communal

      commodes with Have you eaten yet? Tasteful!

      ’Bout ya?

      028029

      What’s up?

      030031

      Whaddup?

      032033

      Slightly rural-sounding; can also mean WTF?

      In some of your more relaxed places, people will greet each other with gànmá qù?—literally, What’re you doing? Unlike its literal English counterpart, What’s up? gànmáqù only has one or two variations—e.g. gànmá? More generally you can say How’s it goin’? or 034 This is way more flexible and covers greetings like What’s goin’ down? and the equivalent of "How’s it

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