Englishes in Hong Kong

Englishes in Hong Kong Dr Benjamin Au YeungDr Paul SzeThe Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Who are we?

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Is this English?

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Milk tea?

What do these sentences mean?

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Your turn …How do you correct …?17

I very like chocolate.

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I have a good news to tell you.

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How do you call this (in English)?

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Are they saying English?

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How do you say ‘Set E’?‘Set yee’? ‘Set ee’?

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How do you say ‘e-Channel’?

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How do you say these letters?

F, H, L, R, Z

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How do you say ‘BBQ’?

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Hang on!Can’t we have Hong Kong English? After all, they have Singaporean English.

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Language AwarenessDo you notice anything unusual in the following examples?

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Is it all right to say …?

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I will now give the time to …

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See you at CU.

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Acknowledgment We took most of the pictures in this PPT

ourselves. A small number of them have been taken from the Web and we have not been able to trace the sources.

The PPT was first used for a talk to students at Caritas Wu Cheng Chung Secondary School on March 5, 2013.

benjamin@cuhk.edu.hk; paulsze@cuhk.edu.hk

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