{"id":176,"date":"2005-04-05T09:27:51","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T09:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay2x.wordpress.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2005-04-05T09:27:51","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T09:27:51","slug":"cross-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/cross-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

What an interesting\u00a0heartlighter<\/em>\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

In Bahasa (Indonesian language),\u00a0ayo<\/em>\u00a0means an encouragement for somebody to persevere on something till the end.<\/p>\n

In Chinese, the same words means pain on the whole body. So when my colleague massage me this morning, i thought in Chinese : ayo ayo ayo ayo … hehehe … luckily he’s a Chinese, else if he’s an Indonesian, he’ll continue to inflict pain on my shoulders\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

And also, in Thai, no 5 is spelled\u00a0ha,\u00a0<\/em>so when they type 555555 means hahahahaha…. sounds of laughing<\/p>\n

While in Chinese, no 5 is spelled\u00a0u,\u00a0<\/em>so when they type 55555 means uuuuuu…. sounds of crying<\/p>\n

Hehehe…..very funny….same words in different culture can means the opposite, better be careful when one cross culturing …. hmmmm *-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What an interesting\u00a0heartlighter\u00a0 In Bahasa (Indonesian language),\u00a0ayo\u00a0means an encouragement for somebody to persevere on something till the end. In Chinese, the same words means pain on the whole body. So when my colleague massage me this morning, i thought in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":744,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/kekekeke\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":0},"title":"kekekeke…:)","author":"clay","date":"February 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Hehehe... it's very funny, when a good thing come, other good things come ... as if they all come together ... here is postcard from prazt...sent from france ...\u00a0 thanks a lot prazt... i really like the design, the words, and ur remarks :d thank u...","rel":"","context":"In "Funny"","block_context":{"text":"Funny","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/category\/emotion\/funny\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":525,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/lord-over-circumtances\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":1},"title":"Lord over circumtances","author":"clay","date":"June 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning when i walked to the bus stop, suddenly a heavy rain poured down. 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