The Cantonese words at the heart of Hong Kong’s 2019 protest vocabulary
Social movements create languages of their own. Participants develop a specific vocabulary, both to communicate easily with each other and to create a sense of solidarity. Hong Kong’s protests are no different. Throughout the past six months, Cantonese—the lingua franca of the city, as opposed to the Mandarin spoken on mainland China—has …
News story posted on 2019-12-23T11:58:00.0000000Z