The Cantonese words at the heart of Hong Kong’s 2019 protest vocabulary
The Cantonese words at the heart of Hong Kong’s 2019 protest vocabulary 3Social 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