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"Lim Peh ka li kong..", "Lim Peh" this, and "Lim Peh" that.... we hear it everywhere.

 

What's the underlying message? that i fathered you? or your mother has one leg with me?

 

I wonder if other races / culture use such an expression? what angmohs / indians / malays etc use as equivalent, if at all?

 

CHinese' mentality when it comes to such thing is very amusing... :D

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"Lim Peh ka li kong..", "Lim Peh" this, and "Lim Peh" that.... we hear it everywhere.

 

What's the underlying message? that i fathered you? or your mother has one leg with me?

 

I wonder if other races / culture use such an expression? what angmohs / indians / malays etc use as equivalent, if at all?

 

CHinese' mentality when it comes to such thing is very amusing... :D

 

 

Lim Peh Kai Sek, its mean I telling you and you should listen. Lim Peh more of a command. -_-

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"Lim Peh ka li kong..", "Lim Peh" this, and "Lim Peh" that.... we hear it everywhere.

 

What's the underlying message? that i fathered you? or your mother has one leg with me?

 

I wonder if other races / culture use such an expression? what angmohs / indians / malays etc use as equivalent, if at all?

 

CHinese' mentality when it comes to such thing is very amusing... :D

 

 

Just showing superiority here in my opinion. It is just a "talk down" mentality and it has nothing to do with parentage or having affairs with someone's mother.

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"Lim Peh ka li kong..", "Lim Peh" this, and "Lim Peh" that.... we hear it everywhere.

 

What's the underlying message? that i fathered you? or your mother has one leg with me?

 

I wonder if other races / culture use such an expression? what angmohs / indians / malays etc use as equivalent, if at all?

 

CHinese' mentality when it comes to such thing is very amusing... :D

 

agreed with jumpyspeedfiend..

 

this is a way of telling others that he is more senior, more learned or more qualified to share opinion with the other party and that party should listen and respect :D

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There is a Chinese saying Bu1 Ting1 Lao3 Ren2 Yan2, Chi1 Qui1 Zai4 Yan3 Qian2.

Meaning if you don't listen to the elderly, you will regret.

 

So Nim Peh is like an elderly sage advice to another person.

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"Lim Peh ka li kong..", "Lim Peh" this, and "Lim Peh" that.... we hear it everywhere.

 

What's the underlying message? that i fathered you? or your mother has one leg with me?

 

I wonder if other races / culture use such an expression? what angmohs / indians / malays etc use as equivalent, if at all?

 

CHinese' mentality when it comes to such thing is very amusing... :D

 

 

Think it is quite common. Even in a galaxy far far away - Darth Vader said "Wa Si Lim Peh"

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Think it is quite common. Even in a galaxy far far away - Darth Vader said "Wa Si Lim Peh"

 

:D:D

 

really!!??

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There is a Chinese saying Bu1 Ting1 Lao3 Ren2 Yan2, Chi1 Qui1 Zai4 Yan3 Qian2.

Meaning if you don't listen to the elderly, you will regret.

 

So Nim Peh is like an elderly sage advice to another person.

c

 

LOL... quite true. but sometimes the user himself obviously is someone 'lesser' than the "audience" in terms of most aspect of life between the two.... this can easily happen during road rage encounters :D , just as an example

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agreed with jumpyspeedfiend..

 

this is a way of telling others that he is more senior, more learned or more qualified to share opinion with the other party and that party should listen and respect :D

 

ok, i got it... the western equivalent will be something like "Young man, listen to me................"??

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"Lim Peh ka li kong..", "Lim Peh" this, and "Lim Peh" that.... we hear it everywhere.

 

What's the underlying message? that i fathered you? or your mother has one leg with me?

 

I wonder if other races / culture use such an expression? what angmohs / indians / malays etc use as equivalent, if at all?

 

CHinese' mentality when it comes to such thing is very amusing... :D

 

 

 

WHY dun you start a thread "Have you ever wonder why?" and post all your questions in it?

 

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Lim Peh Kai Sek, its mean I telling you and you should listen. Lim Peh more of a command. -_-

 

maybe for a change, NDP parade commander can also shout, instead of the usual commands, just "Lim Peh......"

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WHY dun you start a thread "Have you ever wonder why?" and post all your questions in it?

 

everything has its own timing.....

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ok, i got it... the western equivalent will be something like "Young man, listen to me................"??

 

A 64 years old always tell a 30 years old this...

Now, a 31 years old tell a 25 years old....

 

 

When the 31 years old tell the 65, he laugh [laugh]

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