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定義: A code-mixing term that westernised Hong Kongers often use when they are excited to hear about another person's experience(s) in something, as the term is also countable as opposed to the Cantonese equivalent term.
用法: E.g. 可以同大家share吓你既travelling experiences嗎? (Could you share your travelling experiences with all of us?)同義詞: 經驗參考: https://urbanpixxels.com/best-things-to-do-in-hong-kong/
定義: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to describe people with high standards of social, moral and ethical behaviour which covers everything from the way they look, dress, and talk.
用法: E.g. 我覺得呢個行業既人都係好proper。(I think everybody in this industry are so proper.)同義詞: 規矩, 正當, 得體參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/4012349/page/1
定義: A shortened form of 'sorry' that is often used by Hong Kongers.
用法: E.g. Sor，唔小心踩到你。
E.g. *碰到人* Sor，sor，sor。同義詞: Sorry, 對唔住
定義: 1. (adj) A code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to describe a person being clever or quick to notice things. Sometimes, it is used as 'sharp醒'.
2. (adj) Used to describe someone's appearance as being too eye-catching.
用法: E.g. 哇，乜今日咁sharp醒呀？咁快做哂D野？
E.g. 呢件衫Ｄ顏色太sharp喇。參考: http://www.cmi.hku.hk/Ref/Article/article02/01.html
定義: A code-mixing phrase used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to describe something as more inferior in quality than another without saying it's of bad quality.
用法: E.g. 我去過呢間bar。It's even worse!同義詞: 更加差參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3047481/page/1
定義: A code-mixing term that overseas educated Hong Kongers use to refer to the kind of lawyer occupation that mostly deals with documents but actually goes to court proceedings at times.
用法: E.g. A: 你係咪做solicitor? 咁咪唔洗上court? B: 都要上court架，少啲咋麻。(A: Are you a solictor? Does that mean you don't need to go to court? B: I need to go to court, but relatively less.)同義詞: 事務律師參考: https://cph-legal.com/2022/03/how-to-ace-a-job-interview-at-a-law-firm/
定義: A code-mixing filler term used by westernised Hong Kongers when they don't really find the other person's topic is all that interesting in a conversation.
用法: E.g. A: 我平時鍾意寫app，去語言交流免費教人廣東話。B: 哦，interesting, interesting... (A: I like writing apps and going to language exchange to volunteer teaching people Cantonese regularly. B: Oh, interesting, interesting...)
E.g. 我見外國人成日都用interesting 黎答人，仲要面無表情，會唔會係根本interesting 係外國一直都只係解： 哦⋯⋯. (I often see foreigners use 'interesting' as a response in a conversation, but without facial expression. Could it be that 'interesting' merely means like 'oh....' from a foreigner's perspective?)同義詞: 很有趣, 哦參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/1047783/page/1
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