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Vinish

Vinish or Vietnamese English is a mixed language of Vietnamese and English, often found in immigrant communities in majority-English-speaking countries. Some Vinish words, with English translation and comments in parentheses:

cà rem
Popsicle; used widely in Vietnam
ga
natural gas
hon đa
motorbike, from the Japanese automaker Honda, who is wildy popular; used widely in Vietnam
ra-đi-ô
radio; used more often than truyền thanh
ti vi
TV; used more often than truyền hinh in Vietnam
phôn
telephone; used interchangeably with điện thoại; also số phôn instead of số điện thoại to mean telephone number
á-lô
hello; used when answering the telephone, so that it sounds like "hello" to an English-speaker

Most of these words are simply words from English, recasted into the Vietnamese alphabet phonetically. This "language" is comparable to Spanglish, in which speakers may mix whole phrases of a second language into their speech.

Last updated: 06-01-2005 21:51:28
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