jau4 “ding1 mou5 jau1” gong2 hei2 前排娛壹用咗「丁母憂」呢個講法，有一班人出嚟嘈睇唔明，引起咗啲迴響。文化好啲嘅人慨歎大眾語文水平低落，「係咪唔識中文」；睇唔明嘅就覺得啲人寫嘢冇人明，當對方係史前生物之類。先旨聲明，我覺得傳統嘅講法係值得保留、流傳，唔係話舊嘅就要掉晒佢；我只係想大家諗下點解咁多人睇唔明，同埋我哋想大家 …

TLDR: 掃到最底你就知 — 話說最近有首歌叫 freerider⋯⋯ 不過首歌同今次個post係無關嘅。 我知道好多人期待我俾個簡單嘅答案，一個 yes 或者 no。不過呢個問題並唔係咁簡單。首先我俾兩個例子你哋。 想像一班喺香港讀國際學校，講英文嘅人。佢哋唔識粵語，住嘅地方看更都識講英文，不過佢哋學識咗一個粵語詞，「靚仔」。佢哋係英文嘅單語話者，但係講「靚仔」嘅時候，就算啲發音鬼鬼哋，都唔會講做「𡃁仔」，因為高音咗對方就聽唔明。某程度上佢哋因為一個詞，令佢哋產出到一種聲調嘅差異。 …

Cantonese is the very core of Hongkongers’ cultural identity and it is just natural for Hongkongers to feel pride in their mother tongue. Despite the unwavering sense of belonging to the language, the public seems to lack meta-linguistic and historical knowledge about the language, as reflected in the low coverage…

Cantonese is probably the most widely spoken language that lacks children’s books. — This is a description about a project that I co-founded, which aims to preserve and promote Cantonese by creating storybooks. Click this link to view if you are blocked. Cantonese used to be the most widely spoken vernacular in many Chinatowns around the world, and the language is said to…

用 RegexReplace，ArrayFormula，TextJoin，一條公式搞掂客家話拼音數字轉調號 — 厓今下學客家話，愛整理下客家話嘅字音分自家用。今日做嗨一隻 Google Sheets 去將數字換做調號（diacritics），所以寫隻文章，講下吾嘅解決方法。 呢排我學緊客家話，遇到一個問題：啲詞語可以用漢字去寫，但係記字音要用拼音，由於有啲變調規則，用數字唔係咁直觀，轉做調號會睇得方便啲。香港客家話嘅調係噉樣嘅（略過變調規則）： 例子 【廣州話】「 …

前言：聽朋友講，話見到土生土長嘅香港細路用普通話溝通，覺得不寒而慄；跟住有人就話佢哋係新移民、雙非、黑工子女，講到好似覺得真香港人冇事，唔使擔心噉。我覺得我要講吓自己對呢個現象嘅睇法同對策。 香港一向都多新移民，主權移交之後可能再多咗。但係以往嘅人喺學校、喺社區都會用粵語溝通，至少喺兩個人講唔同家鄉話嗰陣，粵語會係最正常嘅交際語。家吓呢，係成日見到兩 …

Note: This letter is co-authored by friends of mine who would not like to be named, and I'm posting this on Medium for a wider reach. Hopefully someone from Apple will see this and take further action. On WWDC 2021, Apple released a set of new features for iOS 15…

收視率個計法冇問題，問題係大家想要嘅唔係收視率 — 前排 193@Error 恥笑無綫嘅收視淨係靠幾百部電視機計出嚟，大快人心之餘，仲帶挈到成個 ViuTV 人氣急升，今個月我認真知道佢咩料喇。不過關於收視率，係咪真係唔使理呢？我諗就算係 ViuTV 高層都唔夠膽講呢句。因為大家真係要一啲指標去睇下觀眾反映，就好似咩學校排名，全球乜乜物物指數噉。而大家聽到嘅收視率統計，係好有用嘅參考指標，仲係三台 …

港台抽起LMF訪問，覺得內容唔夠 decent，大家隨即挖出MC仁用流利法文接受訪問嘅片段，指出佢一口法文，比起廣播處長更加 decent。見到大家讚MC仁嘅呢種論調，居然經過幾日都冇人反駁，實在有啲唔舒服。 非會員閱讀 Link 我細細個就開始聽LMF，佢完全係扭轉咗我對音樂嘅理解，擴闊咗個眼光。MC仁作為 rapper，作為藝術家，絕對值得大家 …