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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 highly efficient code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use when they want to do a short summary of what happened in a period of time without sounding so repetitive, old school and verbose as '概括重述' denotes.
用法: E.g. 不如我地一齊recap一下今個week做左咩？(What about doing a recap of what we did this week?)同義詞: 概括重述參考: https://ezone.hk/article/20052634/香港職場中英夾雜用語-內地網民舉30個例子-表示識粵語都無法理解
定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to demand immediate attention towards a matter without sounding like they are in such a hurry or wanting the other person to hurry the f*** up.
用法: E.g. 呢個係一個urgent既task。B: 明白 (Understood)
E.g. 呢個係一個緊急既任務。B: 洗唔洗咁急呀？(Why is there such a hurry?)同義詞: 緊急參考: https://ezone.hk/article/20052634/香港職場中英夾雜用語-內地網民舉30個例子-表示識粵語都無法理解
定義: A code-mixing term used by all sorts of Hong Kongers to refer to the popular trading card game called Magic the Gathering.
用法: E.g. A: 打唔打magic呀? B: 等我整吓我個deck先再同你揪。(A: Do you want to play magic? B: Let me sort out my deck first before I dual with you.)同義詞: Magic the Gathering, 魔法風雲會參考: https://magic.wizards.com/zh-Hant
定義: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers who are obsessed with the Pokemon trading card game that they are willing to collect and resell pokemon cards of the highest values.
用法: E.g. 藍田站交收 20 萬 Pokemon Card 慘被搶。(A man was robbed while exchanging $200,000 worth of Pokemon Cards at Lam Tin Station.)同義詞: 精靈寶可夢 (China), 神奇寶貝 (Taiwan), 寵物小精靈 (Hong Kong), ポケモンカードゲーム (Japan)參考: https://ezone.hk/article/20085941/藍田站交收-萬-pokemon-card-慘被搶去卡錢盡失-網民嘲-咁貴都唔出閘面交/1
定義: With a literal meaning of 'hot air', this is a romanised code-mixing term used by westernised Hong Kongers to refer to having overheat from eating too much spicy or fried foods, leading to pimples and freckles growing on your face or even buttocks. Also, yeet hay seems to only exist in Chinese medicine but not western medicine according to native Hong Kongers.
用法: E.g. A: Do you want to eat barbeque? B: No thanks, I am very yeet hay recently.同義詞: 熱氣參考: https://www.instagram.com/reels/C7PVDJZpVgq/ (使用手機版本)
定義: A code-mixing phrase that overseas educated Hong Kongers use when they want to express their well-educated guess or opinion on a subject matter without sounding so formal and bookish.
用法: E.g. 呢個program我覺得in general係幾學到野。(I think I can really learn from this program in general.)同義詞: 一般而言參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3990504/page/1
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