Hi
I am Cantonese. I had left HK when I was 16 and that was decades ago. I can read and speak native standard Cantonese, but I am no longer able to write fluent Cantonese. Hence I write in English. Sorry.
When I was about age 11, in Primary 6, during a PTA meeting, a teacher made a comment to my parents to the effect that I was "未成名而有角". I never bothered to ask what that expression meant. When my parents told me about the comment, I remember simply shrugging my shoulders, thinking "whatever!"
Now I am curious and I'd like to find out. But unfortunately both the teacher and my parents are no longer living.
Would anyone like to interpret a meaning for the expression?
I can only conjecture that the cause for the teacher to make that comment is that in my English homework for him, I used to imitate his style of hand-writing, in particular his letter A. He had a very unusual capital A. I have not come across another person with the same style of writing ever since. Most people would write Capital A either from the top or from the bottom left. But he started from the bottom right. (see diagram link)
Any suggestions welcomed.
Regards
latter A
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I am Cantonese. I had left HK when I was 16 and that was decades ago. I can read and speak native standard Cantonese, but I am no longer able to write fluent Cantonese. Hence I write in English. Sorry.
When I was about age 11, in Primary 6, during a PTA meeting, a teacher made a comment to my parents to the effect that I was "未成名而有角". I never bothered to ask what that expression meant. When my parents told me about the comment, I remember simply shrugging my shoulders, thinking "whatever!"
Now I am curious and I'd like to find out. But unfortunately both the teacher and my parents are no longer living.
Would anyone like to interpret a meaning for the expression?
I can only conjecture that the cause for the teacher to make that comment is that in my English homework for him, I used to imitate his style of hand-writing, in particular his letter A. He had a very unusual capital A. I have not come across another person with the same style of writing ever since. Most people would write Capital A either from the top or from the bottom left. But he started from the bottom right. (see diagram link)
Any suggestions welcomed.
Regards
latter A
