Nov 22 2005
Kok Kok Gai
If you hear any kid shouting ‘Kok Kok Gai!”, I’m sure you’d think he is referring to ‘Chicken’ in Cantonese.
We thought so, when we heard Ian said that, many times. We didn’t know where he learnt it.
Then on Friday morning after I bathed Ian, when I wiped him, as usual I pointed his body parts and said, “Wipe hair-hair, wipe ear-ear, wipe hand-hand, …”
And when I said, “Wipe gak-lat-dai (armpit in Cantonese)”…
Ian happily responded, “Kok Kok Gai!”
I burst into laughter, and tested him again.
Suz: “Ian, say gak-lat-dai”
Ian: “Kok Kok Gai!”
Suze: * pointed at Ian’s armpit * “What is this?”
Ian: “Kok Kok Gai!”
Aiyoh! Why Ian created all sorts of own language, but so easily misunderstood as something else in our language har? LOL!
my son keep shouting “Kok Kok Gai” when we are at the “Chicken Rice Shop” and pointing at those fake chicken there!
egghead: I’m sure your son’s ‘kok kok gai’ is really referring to chicken, but Ian’s ‘kok kok gai’ refers to ‘gat lat dai’, i.e. armpit ler.
:p
So, your son speaks human language, but Ian speaks his own. :p
may be because the kids put their hand underneath their armpit, and flip their albow like kok-kok-gai gua
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This is so funny.
If kok-kok-gai means gat-lat-dai, then quack-quack-quack means?
Kids in the city hardly have the chance to see the “real” chicken……..it’s his imagination when adult show him how chicken looks like……armpit with 2 wings what!!!
quack-quack-quack means…”ja-son-lor”
err…luckily he didn’t point somewhere else!
Auntie Maria : Heh!
*shows fist*
kekekeke…my son dont care 3721..’bird bird…’ and pointing to his ‘bird bird’
my son almost 2 years loh…only know ‘one three four five’ (no matter how always missed the two) and this 1345 cost me some money at magnum and toto liao…
maria/mama2jojo: no ler, I don’t think so. He just can’t pronounce it correctly. When I asked him to say ‘armpit’, he could asy it more accurately. Similarly to ‘gong-gong’ he also calls him ‘dong-dong’.
king’s wife: hahaha! don’t think dirty. :p
leecs: don’t worry of him missing ‘two’, Ian sometimes gets lazy and skip 8 and 9 too!