[Mihalic] 20 toea

[Ngawae Mitio]

I have not heard of point faiv.
Ten toea and twenty toea is used these days. But I think one toea and two is
probably more common.
One skwad is popular.
Two other terms also used these days are:
    Save peis - common, familiar face
    Faiv kina man/meri - people who leak information (I think at one stage,
two kina was used,                                         but changed
either to avoid confusion with K2s (prostitutes) or the value
of the tips for information leakage/detective work has increased.

Ngawae Mitio
University of Technology
Lae
----- Original Message -----
From: John Burton <john.burton at anu.edu.au>
To: <Mihalic at anu.edu.au>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: RE: [Mihalic] 20 toea


> Pat (na skwad bilong yu)
>
> On ten toea-twenti toea, this reflects the older usage of being 'florin
> pinis' (see site).
> It would be logical if this was the corresponding gag:
>
> Yu florin pinis?
> Nogat, mi stap wan siling yet.
>
> However, I do not know if this was said. Anyone?
>
> John Burton
> P.S. Hopefully some institutional news about the project will be
forthcoming
> before the end of August.
>
>
> > point faiv: boy friend or girl friend.
> >
> > "Point faiv bilong yu i stap we? Mi go painim point faiv bilong mi."
> >
> > A reference to "half" as in English, "my better half".
> >
> >
> > In this connection I asked the students (aged 20 samting) if
> > they knew the
> > expression, "Yu marit, o nogat?" To which the reply is, "No,
> > mi stap ten toea
> > yet. Mi no twenti toea." The students said they had not heard
> > that. That was
> > at least a local expression here in Madang ten years ago.
> > Perhaps it has not
> > been passed on to the young people today: an expression born,
> > used and died.
> >
> >      Pat Gesch.
>
>
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