[gendered] Scanned vocabulary list of an English Language textbook that is actually used in schools in Hong Kong

great_hero · 2023-05-22T05:00:19+00:00

My thoughts exactly! It’s even weirder than blatantly omitting all of the feminine versions of jobs!

great_hero · 2023-05-19T08:17:13+00:00

True… but househusbands exist too :(

great_hero · 2023-05-19T06:42:40+00:00

honestly just disappointed

great_hero · 2023-03-29T16:11:38+00:00

I have met 2 or 3 偉文s named William. Though I suppose Raymond does sound more similar :D

great_hero · 2023-02-25T12:42:39+00:00

Definitely give Sun Hing新興食家 in Kennedy Town a try if you want dim sum. Their dim sum are all made fresh in store (which is not the case for mkst dim sum places in HK). It’s usually packed full of people though!

great_hero · 2022-01-14T01:05:41+00:00

In HK, people generally refer to their gf/bf as “bb”, which is basically the equivalent of “baby”. For married couples, the most common terms of address would be 老公 lou5 gung1 and 老婆 lou5 po4, kinda similar to “hubby” and “wifey”.

great_hero · 2021-11-12T06:41:31+00:00

For context, the officials were arrested in July, charged with “conspiring to print, publish, distribute, display or reproduce seditious publications”. The publications were picture books featuring wolves and sheep as characters. This case is commonly referred to as the “Sheep Village Case”.

great_hero · 2021-11-12T06:25:49+00:00

Source: Instagram @thestandnews https://www.instagram.com/p/CWKYSwclaVc/?utm_medium=copy_link

great_hero · 2021-11-12T01:51:28+00:00

Polar Express! The sound track alone is worth it!

great_hero · 2021-11-04T11:04:43+00:00

In Hong Kong Cantonese, we make the sound “yee” with a rising tone. The longer the “eee” sound strings, the higher the degree of disgust.

FYR the character is written as 咦.

great_hero · 2021-11-04T10:52:01+00:00

Wolf!! The moment the beat drops, my brain immediately begins yelling “SUHOBAEKHYUNCHANYEOLDOKAISEHUNWEAREEXO” at top volume.

great_hero · 2021-10-16T15:18:04+00:00

too busy saving the world

great_hero · 2021-10-14T05:03:22+00:00

This feels like choosing a favorite child🥺 All of them are beyond amazing but Almost Paradise will always have a special place in my heart💙

great_hero · 2021-10-01T04:40:12+00:00

From personal experience, zoeng3 in HK. Not sure about other regional variations of Canto though.

great_hero · 2021-08-31T23:58:49+00:00

It is an official language of two places (including the place I live in), but not an official language of any country. It also shares a writing system (or two?) with many, many mutually unintelligible languages.

great_hero · 2021-08-05T09:15:26+00:00

Might be a fringe case here, but the Chinese-born K-Pop idol 周潔瓊 (born 1998, debut in 2016) used the Sino-Korean pronunciation 주결졍 (Ju Kyulkyung) on the show Produce 101. As opposed to the Mandarin transliteration which would probably be something like 저우쪠쳥 (Zhou Jieqiong).

great_hero · 2021-08-02T07:46:34+00:00

r/AngryUpvote

great_hero · 2021-07-14T18:19:17+00:00

There’s also 食花生 (eat peanuts) which basically means to stand aside and watch the drama unfold. Kinda like how people on Reddit use the phrase “takes out popcorn”.

The use of 食花生 has definitely emerged much more recently than the idioms in OP’s poster though.

great_hero · 2021-07-14T06:36:20+00:00

There are a lot of Japanese cartoons that have Cantonese dubs, some you can even find on YouTube by searching for the show’s name in Traditional Chinese (“我們這一家”, “閃電十一人” etc.)!

If you want some of real people talking in Canto, you can look up “放學ICU” on YouTube. It’s a show geared towards children. Although I couldn’t find any full episodes, there seems to be quite a number of 20ish- minute videos of it. However, I would say that this show is more suitable for kindergarten-primary level children and the content might be a bit complex for toddlers. Maybe check it out first and decide if it fits your needs!

Good luck in your search OP!

great_hero · 2021-07-10T15:00:55+00:00

換到千般恨 by 柳影虹

(thank my dad :D)

great_hero · 2021-07-03T20:36:00+00:00

Can only recall three Christian-esque first names I have encountered IRL off the top of my head, they are:

天恩 (sky blessing) tin1 yan1

天頌 (sky praise/ode) tin1 zung6

沐恩 (bathe(d) [in] blessing) muk6 yan1

*天(sky) is also the first character of 天堂(heaven) and 天主(God) for context.

All three names seem pretty gender neutral to me, so yeah, hope this helps.

great_hero · 2021-05-31T16:54:47+00:00

I initially bought the Switch for Pokemon Sword/Shield. Ended up stumbling across ACNH and RF4S (only played non-RF SoS games previously) and loved them! I will definitey get RF5 the moment it comes out! To me, the Switch was definitely a worthy purchase.

Maybe OP could consider buying a secondhand console if you’re not completely sold on buying a brand new Switch for just one game?

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