Jesse Mullan

You boys are crazy!

Written on Friday, the 21^st of November, 2003 at 3:18 pm and was filed under: Speaking in Tongues

Continuing my string of random Asian characters, here is an exclamation that I heard a lot when I was growing up…

The full sentence was usually: “哎呀! Why are you boys awake? It is two AM!”

哎呀: [aiya!] Oh, Lord! Wow! WTF!

哎 [ai1] /an interjection/hey/lookout/why etc/

唉 [ai1] /an interjection/to express realization or agreement (yes, oh, right, etc)/

呀 [ya5] /(final part.)/