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香港中英夾雜字典

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roommate

定義: A better sounding code-mixing term that is used in place of '室友'. 用法: E.g. 朋友:你有幾多個室友? 你:你係話失友還是roommate?參考: https://holiday.presslogic.com/article/224449/港式-廣東話-中英夾雜-口語-香港人-搭lift-食lunch

grad

定義: A shortened code-mixing term that refers to the verb 'graduate'.  Sometimes, it is used as a noun. 用法: E.g. 同學:你唔係怕grad唔到呀嗎? 同事:你做左幾年野?。你:我係fresh grad黎架。參考: https://holiday.presslogic.com/article/224449/港式-廣東話-中英夾雜-口語-香港人-搭lift-食lunch

mix

定義: A code-mixing term that refers to a person with a mixed-race descent. 用法: E.g. A:你係唔係mix黎架?B:乜我似mix咩?多謝。 E.g. A:你係唔係mix黎架?B:係!當然係啦!我係澳門香港mix呀!

nice

定義: A way to express how nice someone is on the surface. 用法: E.g. 佢個人好nice,但係識耐左先知道原來係虛偽。 E.g. 佢個人好nice,不過唔知個人好唔好呢?

shopping

定義: A chic-sounding code-mixing term used in Hong Kong Cantonese that shows the speaker's education background and western appeal. 用法: E.g. 唔好意思,我週末要去shopping。唔得閒應酬你。 E.g. 做人唔shop下ping邊得呀?參考: https://sites.google.com/site/hongkonglinguistics/Downhome/language-contact-in-hong-kong/cantonese-englishintra-sententialcode-switchinginhongkong

m

定義: A euphemistic code-mixing term that refers to 'menstruation' in English.  However, it is also used as 'M記' to refer to McDonald\'s. 用法: E.g. 唔好話我聽兒家先黎M麻? E.g. 今次真係M到阿媽都唔認得喇!E.g. 今日又食M記?唔好喇掛!

get

定義: A code-mixing term that refers to understanding the gist of something.  Sometimes, it is also used to refer to understanding the small parts of something, in order to understand the whole thing. 用法: E.g. 佢好像唔係咁get我們講D咩。 E.g. 你要get到最基本既concept先,之後你就會明哂所有野。參考: https://holiday.presslogic.com/article/224449/港式-廣東話-中英夾雜-口語-香港人-搭lift-食lunch

long time no see

定義: Pronounced as 'long tie lo see', this is a code-mixing term used by grassroots class Hong Kongers for greeting someone they have not seen for a long time. 用法: E.g. 喂!Long tie lo see!參考: https://www.esquirehk.com/mens-talk/simon-shen-hong-kong-english-chinese

movie

定義: Classified as 'JM tone', this is a code-mixing style adopted by Hong Kong celebrity Janice Man to represent the upper class.  (Notice that the letter m is a voiced consonant in this word and should be emphasized for extremely proper pronunciation.) 用法: E.g. 我週末得閒既時候會同朋友去睇mmmovie。

bonus

定義: A chic-sounding code-mixing term that refers to year-end bonus (花紅) in Cantonese. 用法: E.g. 你間公司今個年尾有bonus嗎?參考: https://aclanthology.org/O09-5003.pdf