national day message on zhifubao

[滕腾勝]

I enjoy browsing quick translations and the signese blogs on these forums, saw something today that stumped me and thought I'd post it up to see what others had to say.

 

the message currently on 支付寶 for 國慶節 reads "国庆周末嗨翻三天". what I'm interested in is of course the 嗨翻. I live in 湖北 so I might be missing some vital Beijing slang knowledge, or perhaps some internet language had slipped me by, my guess is 翻 goes with 天 for a reading of 嗨！翻三天！but I feel like I've got some weird guy feeling they're also trying to do a play on "have fun 三天！" maybe this is just me, would love to know what others think

 

 

[889]

There must be a good name for this sort of thing. "Characterized English" doesn't sound good, does it.

 

(嗨翻 is common enough that even lousy Bing gives plenty of examples. Search "High Fun.")

 

[Shelley]

When a name such as David  大伟 is given chinese characters isn't it called transliteration? So using  嗨翻  to mean hi(gh) fun might be called that too?

[Publius]

嗨 certainly is borrowed from English ('high', also short for 'happy').

翻 is purely incidental I think. It follows the usual Chinese grammar, e.g. 樂翻了、鬧翻了天.

[Angelina]

hong dou ni 

真的吗？

 

from Japanese 

 

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