我是觉得我讯号不通
“I think there's no signal.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我没有在玩
“I'm not playing.”
我是觉得我讯号不通
“I think there's no signal.”
讯号不通 我看看
“No signal? Let me see.”
“I am not fooling around; my phone just has no reception.”
Using 讯号 (xùnhào) instead of 信号 (xìnhào) for cellular connection is characteristic of Taiwanese Mandarin in daily tech usage.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
no cellular reception; signal not going through
Commonly used in Taiwan and southern varieties of Chinese to refer to mobile signal dropouts (equivalent to 没信号 in mainland Mandarin).
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The signal abroad was also bad. I felt like I've lost contact with all of you.”
“The signal is bad in this basement.”
“Ah the signal is not so good. It's always stuck.”
“I... I think I have no signal either.”