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香港中英夾雜字典

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appreciate

定義: A posh way of saying that you admire someone's work or effort, in order to show your high social status or higher education background. 用法: E.g. 我好appreciate你個idea. Well done. E.g. 我好appreciate你做既野。不過,你都唔可以迫我accept你個apology。

anyhow

定義: Usually placed at the start of a clause or sentence, this is a code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to replace the phrase '無論如何', meaning 'no matter what' in Cantonese. 用法: E.g. 我知你好忙,但anyhow,你一定要幫我。

really

定義: A code-mixing term that is often overused by Fake ABC's in Hong Kong to strike a western impression, as they believe knowing the 'r' sound will make them superior. 用法: E.g. Rrreally?可唔可以再講多次呀? E.g. 唔係嘛?Rrrreally?你話你D英文標準過我?參考: https://hk.news.yahoo.com/港式英文講過舉手-偽abc-語錄-2124292580433974.html
2023-02-26

Last day

定義: This is a code-mixing phrase commonly used to replace最後一日 when the last day of activity is reached. 用法: E.g. 今日係唔係last day?

tissue

定義: 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. 用法: E.g. 請問有冇tissue呀?。E.g. 唔該比張tissue黎呀,唔該。

proposal

定義: A code-mixing term that is often used in the workplace environment of Hong Kong to refer to a proposal document. 用法: E.g. 老細叫你打嗰份proposal打完未呀?E.g. 今次份proposal太短喇,又唔夠detail。再打過啦。

sorry

定義: A more effortless way of apologising to someone without sounding so formal and serious. Sometimes, it is pronounced as 'sor-li'. 用法: E.g. Sorry呀,踩親你。 E.g. Sorry呀,我遲到左。 E.g.你:對唔住!係我抵死,係我唔岩!朋友:唔洗咁隆重。你:SORRY囉。參考: https://www.academia.edu/8666953/Common_usage_of_code-mixing_among_trilingual_Hong_Kongers

close

定義: A more suitable way to describe how close a relationship is than the word ‘親密’ (intimate). 用法: E.g. 你同你個friend close唔close架?E.g. 你有幾多個close friend?

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?

printer

定義: Often pronounced without the 'r' sounds and with a rising tone on the second syllable, this is an a lot more linguistically efficient way of referring to printer (打印機)in Cantonese. 用法: E.g. 內地人:個打印機喺邊呀? 香港人:咩話?三個字咁累贅。叫返printer啦唔該。參考: http://www.patrickchu.net/uploads/9/0/5/3/9053324/2007_free_ppt.pdf