Saturday, October 21, 2006

Lookie Lookie, Who Tookie

Pictures of Xavier School?

Why, moi, of course.




I've deciphered the words on them, and here they are:

光耀千島學子滿懷正氣

光啟母校雅正

啟用技能群力拓展社稷

一九六五年中學畢業班 敬贈

Cantonese:
gwong yiu cin dou hok zi mun waai zing hei
gwong kai mou haau ngaa zing
kai yung gei nang kwan lik tok zin se zik
yat gaau lok ng nin zung hok baat yip baan ging zeng

Hokkien:
kong [something] cien to haak zi buan huai zing khi
kong khe bu hau nga zing
khai iyng (not a typo) ki neng kun diak tok tian sia [something]
yit kiu diok ngo ni tiong haak pit giap pan king zing

Mandarin:
guang yao qian dao xue zi man huai zheng qi
guang qi mu xiao ya zheng
qi yong ji neng qun li tuo zhan she ji
yi jiu liu wu nian zhong xue bi ye jing zeng

Yay.

囝 is how you write "knia" in Hokkien. As in, child. Cool, eh?


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