看个电影咋了
“watching a movie using his own pension?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他拿自己的退休金
“What's wrong with him”
看个电影咋了
“watching a movie using his own pension?”
那是爸的退休金
“That was Dad's pension.”
“Stop making a big deal out of nothing; it is just a movie.”
In Chinese households, adult children often scrutinize elderly parents' pensions and expenditures, viewing individual funds as interconnected family assets.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
What is wrong?; So what?
A highly colloquial Northern Chinese variant of 怎么了, often used defensively or informally to challenge someone's reaction.
watching a movie
The insertion of the classifier 个 downplays the significance or weight of the activity.
Combined with 咋 to form an interrogative marker indicating challenge or questioning a current state of affairs.
