The link takes you to a nitter copy (it works again!) But in case elon kasi dia koyak lagi: https://twitter.com/egasmb/status/1691789735142772893?t=k-c2L84nIEkJN3yVZ0Jfog&s=19
And it’s qt another thread of his, and basically… It’s no contest syiok/shiok/syok comes from Malay, but where did Malay got it? Apparently by way of Persian and it still exists in Malay, as “asyik”.
Pretty cool stuff!
I get an error from the nitter copy, this is a divine sign for me to stop doomscrolling nitter. Lmao
Alamak… Kantoi lagi??
Has something to do with the bypass to register with Twitter failing. Twstalker is working but not perfect
Another example is 烧/燒: “shao” in Mandarin, “sio” in Hokkien but SEA pronunciation closer to /sio/, while Mainland and Taiwan is /ɕio/. ɕ rendered in Pinyin is “x”.
Oooh interesting!
i thought syiok is derived from shock?
Basically: no.
