November 11, 2026
I've been going through some old notes and recordings and I added some more words that I noticed I didn't have in my database yet:
- fun
- thread
- association
- until
I'm also slowly adding more sentences! I do have a few question sentences and I figured it would be good to have an answer to each of the questions. Today I added "My favorite color is blue." "blue" was actually yesterday's Word of the Day in my AAPI group and it reminded me that I've been wanting to add a Lesson page for colors! It's been in my notes for years. Will I ever get to it?!
November 9, 2026
I'm in a local woman/non-binary AAPI group and since we all know different languages, we started doing a "Word of the Day" where someone picks a word and we all share how to say that word in our language!
One of the recent words chosen was "weekend". I already had the translation for weekend on my site, but I realized I had a shortened version of it. My aunt typically says bai(2) bhue2, but you could also say loi(6) bai(2) bhue2. Now both are on the site!
This also made me realize that I didn't have the translation for bhue2 尾. There are a few different meanings of this that I'm aware of. It means "end", which is fitting because weekend is literally "week" "end". It also means "tail"! And that makes sense, tails are at the end of something. But you also use bhue2 as the classifier for fish! I don't know why fish are so special, I think all other animals use jiah4.
And finally, I've also added the word "upside down" to my database AND I added a new sentence: "She didn't pick up the phone". It's a common thing that comes up when I talk to my aunt. More sentences will be coming soon!
November 7, 2026
Hold on to your hats, people, because I've got another big update that'll result in absolutely nothing different for the end user! 😅 Not yet at least. I've been needing to make some changes to how I store sentences in the database, to follow better normalization rules. I've been mostly ignoring the sentences feature recently, and I think it's time to finally add more updates here! Soon.
But I did add one new translation to the database: "to pick"!
October 31, 2026
With all that talk about that php exploit, I figured it might be a good time to update my version of Mojolicious. What changed from the previous version I was using to the current one? I have no idea! But I'm on the latest version now. I also managed to push my code while I was on the plane! The plane internet was too slow to browse most websites, but I could do development.
I've also added a few words since the last update:
- watercress
- which
- incense
Now I'm working on another big update! I have so many big updates queued up in my head.
October 24, 2026
Whoa! Has it really been 10 days since my last update?
The latest word that I added is mih(8) seu7, which kinda means "for what?" or "what's the matter?" And adding that led me down a much bigger site update.
So with me working on both What Teochew Say and my own Teochew site, I want to make sure my site is really tailored to me. Much earlier in the process, when I learned about all the different Teochew accents, I thought that I might show multiple accents and even let the user choose which accent they preferred. But I know which accent I speak. And even then, I don't feel like I need to perfectly follow the Gekion rules. What Teochew Say is already providing pronunciations of words in multiple accents so I feel like it doesn't make sense for me to include that on my site.
One common word in Teochew is mih(8) gai5, which means "what". But in the dictionaries that I've referenced, the Gekion way of saying it is meh(8) gai5. For some reason it feels weird to write it out this way--I always think "mih" instead of "meh". But I've been trying to follow the Gekion pronunciations on my site, so this was always written as "meh".
Well, not anymore. I've changed all the "meh"s back to "mih"! This made me realize that I still had pieces of code that I wrote to make it so I could potentially show different accents. So I just did a whole bunch of deleting code and I even removed a whole column from my database! Yay! Deleting code is so nice. (We'll see if anything breaks. Tests are still passing though)
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