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Definition: Also known as 'human router', this is a code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to an employee whose role is simply to help people communicate or transfer information from one to another, without providing much of a real value or asset to the company.
Usage: E.g. 成日話 developer 人難溝通。好多 project manager 溝通咪一樣麻麻地。講野又無 developer 咁直接 淨係識遊花園/做 router。人際關又唔係特別好 (It is often said that developers are difficult to communicate with. But in fact, many project managers communicate just as poorly, as they don't talk as directly as a developer, as they often beat around the bush and act like a router. Their interpersonal skills are also not particularly good.)
Synonym: 人類路由器
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/3844073/page/4
Definition: A code-mixing term that local Hong Kongers use to refer to an equipment that helps connect computer networks together.
Usage: E.g. 個router係咪壞左？點解冇network既？
Synonym: 路由器
Reference: https://www.threads.net/@hongtonese/post/C8zlfwZytLZ
Definition: Pronounced as 'tee-suu', this is a code-mixing term that Hong Kongers have grown up with and got used to instead of the equivalent term in Cantonese.
Usage: E.g. 請問有冇tissue呀？。E.g. 唔該比張tissue黎呀，唔該。
Synonym: 紙巾
Definition: A romanised code-mixing term that is used by Fake ABC's in Hong Kong to refer to '核突', which refers to something that is aesthetically unpleasant or ugly.
Usage: E.g. 港女：Im so broke so I went into a random updup maiseen place eat din alone but then I realize the place is too dirty and updup and ppl ard me dou ho dirty and wuddud...
Synonym: 核突
Reference: https://topick.hket.com/article/2254771/wuddud＝核突%E3%80%80港女「流利」港式英語投訴米線店考起網民
Definition: Pronounced as 'kaahn-taah' with a long back vowel and rising intonation, this is a code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to a cashier's counter, information desk or service counter.
Usage: E.g. 小弟係個賣game仔，話說我今日放飯果陣緊係出去食飯啦，咁個counter緊係冇人啦 (I'm a game seller, and of course I went out to have lunch during my lunch break today, so there was no one looking after the counter.)
Synonym: 收銀處; 客戶服務中心; 櫃檯
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/740067/page/1
Definition: A romanised code-mixing phrase used by foreigners to ask for directions when they are lost in Hong Kong.
Usage: E.g. Kowloon tong dim hui?
Synonym: 點去？
Definition: A code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use to talk about a topic with someone or a group of people and have them share their ideas and opinions.
Usage: E.g. 不如一齊discuss吓個project點樣做？ E.g. 我地discuss吓個問題，然後再結論。可以嗎？
Synonym: 討論
Definition: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to a meal set offered by a karaoke lounge bar or club.
Usage: E.g. 今日去唔去食K lunch呀？一百蚊又可以唱又食，好鬼死抵。(Do you want to have K lunch today? Can sing and eat at the price of just $100, so frigging cheap.)
Synonym: 卡啦OK午餐
Reference: https://hk.ulifestyle.com.hk/activity/detail/20009510/唱k推介2024丨全港16大卡啦ok好去處-最平-36起-日文k都有-附地址-收費詳情
Definition: A code-mixing term that local Hong Kong university students love to use instead of '講座', which means a formal talk on a subject by a professor.
Usage: E.g. 其實上lecture根本浪費時間。
Synonym: 講座
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/475538/page/2
Definition: A code-mixing term that a Jayden Mami uses to refer to a more playful misbehaviour in a lighthearted way rather than describing a child genuinely bad and unmanageable that the Cantonese equivalent terms tend to denote.
Usage: E.g. Jayden呀，唔好再咁naughty啦。你唔食菜，又唔飲湯，你唔會healthy架！(Jayden, don't be so naughty. If you don't eat vegetables and don't drink soup, you will not be healthy!)
Synonym: 曳；百厭
Reference: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/7397/