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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Phaik Hooi, post: 466484, member: 5831&quot;]penang hokkien language adopted a lot of local malay words and bangku is one of them. i have always used it to refer to low stools but it is used for stools in general (only found out today <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p>penang hokkien is very different from the original hokkien dialect, so much so i sometimes have difficulty understanding real hokkien <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Hokkien" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Hokkien" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Hokkien</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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