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!
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 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
i thought syiok is derived from shock?
Basically: no.
