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Note: This is not a joke! For example, someone from England is English, France is French, etc. I was having a discussion last night about this and now it's bugging me something fierce. The two sides were: Hong Kongese Hong Kong Chinese Is it either of these or something else entirely? |
What's the right word to describe someone from Hong Kong?
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opalw00t 12,836 posts
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djchump 4,463 posts
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Registered 16 years agoChinese? Seeing as Hong Kong is part of china?
Cantonese? -
opalw00t 12,836 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIsn't Cantonese a language though?
Like Flemish in Belgium? -
Kay 21,321 posts
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Registered 17 years agodjchump wrote:
Chinese? Seeing as Hong Kong is part of china?
Cantonese?
Hong Kong is not technically part of China. Not any more, anyway.
If my Chinese colleague was in today I would have been able to get the answer to the thread question.
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About 96 % of Hong Kong's population is Chinese, the majority of which are Cantonese.: from Wikipedia.
So probably Chinese. -
Machiavel 5,964 posts
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Registered 19 years agoNo, Cantonese is a dialect - written down, it's the same as Mandarin. -
Machiavel 5,964 posts
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Registered 19 years agoAnd I'd go for Hong Kongese.
Hong Kong is Chinese, but it's a special autonomous region with its own council and laws - under China's thumb, but a heck of a lot more protesting and free speech than you'd get in one of the major mainland cities. -
Well, according to this site Hong Konger is acceptable. Sounds odd to me - probably what's used to describe residents of Hong Kong in general (so settled foreigners etc).
Chinese ftw! -
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MrSensible 26,517 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIIRC, a man I knew from Hong Kong called himself Hong Kong Chinese, or something thereabouts.
He makes a definite distinction between his nation and China though. -
Juninho 1,825 posts
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Registered 18 years agowell-Hong? -
And what if Hong Kong was a monarchy. and that person was the monach ? Hong Kong King Kong ?
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morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agoHong Kongian? -
Flightrisker 18,139 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWhat's the right word to describe someone from Hong Kong?
Awesome. -
morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMGSfan wrote:
otto wrote:
Write to Buckingham Palace, the Duke of Edinburgh is usually well informed on these things.
Is this some sort of political in-joke? Did the Duke of Edinburgh call someone a chink on live TV, or something?
He's called everyone just about everything at one time or another. -
He's a total joke himself. The only Spitting Image puppet less offensive than it's real life counterpart. -
mrharvest 5,718 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMachiavel wrote:
No, Cantonese is a dialect - written down, it's the same as Mandarin.
In fact isn't the dialectisation so far that written Cantonese has dissimilarities to written Mandarin?
Canton (Guangdong) is a different area though so calling them Cantonese is wrong.
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opalw00t 12,836 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThanks for all the help... and not so helpful comments .gif)
It appears that the only way to settle this is a fight to the death. I'd best go get my Lirpas.
'We must fight Captain...'
Do do der der der der deeeeeeeeer duder-der-der
Brrrrrrrr-ing! Brrr-ing! Brrr-ing! -
ChrisOTR 1,670 posts
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Registered 20 years agoHong Kong Chinese, I would say... -
opalw00t 12,836 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThanks vermin, you GENIUS!!!111
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DodgyPast 9,353 posts
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Registered 16 years agoChrisOTR wrote:
That's how the Thai's differentiate between the Chinese and people from Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Chinese, I would say...
It also fits well with Singaporean Chinese and Singaporean Malay / Indian. -
kincaide 5,067 posts
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Registered 18 years agok.o.t.i wrote:
Yep. No such thing as being English......it's a language.
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Shinji 5,902 posts
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Registered 20 years agoJust "Chinese", according to my housemate from HK - who looked at me like I'd just spoken in moon language when I suggested "Hong Konger" as an alternative. -
Pike 13,459 posts
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Registered 18 years agoGremmi wrote:
* In 1996 he caused an outcry among gun law reformers when he said: "There's no evidence that people who use weapons for sport are any more dangerous than people who use golf clubs or tennis rackets or cricket bats."
Why is that even remotley offensive? -
Kay 21,321 posts
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Registered 17 years agoGremmi wrote:
PRINCE PHILIP, CRUSADER FOR PEACE
* In May 1999 he angered deaf people during a visit to the new Welsh Assembly. While he was with a group from the British Deaf Association who were standing near a band, he pointed to the musicians and said: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."
LOL...what a character.
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DodgyPast 9,353 posts
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Registered 16 years agoGremmi wrote:
I do like those two....
* In 1995 he asked a Scottish driving instructor: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test."
* At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
Personally I approve of him in a general sort of way... a last bastion against people being PC. -
Pike wrote:
Gremmi wrote:
* In 1996 he caused an outcry among gun law reformers when he said: "There's no evidence that people who use weapons for sport are any more dangerous than people who use golf clubs or tennis rackets or cricket bats."
Why is that even remotley offensive?
Yeah - you need a little context for that. The comments came in the aftermath of the Dunblaine (sp?) massacre, when a number of young children were shot dead by man wielding a gun he had for sporting purposes. There was an outcry / backlash against owning guns for sport, to which Philip responded as above - so nothing really wrong with the comment per se, but a tad insensitive (he just bulldozed into the debate in as though he had an executive right to). -
pistol 13,018 posts
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Registered 19 years agoMachiavel wrote:
No, Cantonese is a dialect - written down, it's the same as Mandarin.
You're wrong. Cantonese and Manderin are different. -
um, no.
Though do please clarify what you mean
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