Sunday, 4 May 2014

Cyber slangs that you have to know to understand Hong Kong's cyber culture - By Wing Kwok

Hong Kong Golden Forum is an online forum in Hong Kong which is found in  2000. It originally provided updates of the latest IT information. Later in 2006, its members started to share camps and parodies which satire some celebrities and political figures. This culture has generated many creative cyber slangs which people who want to know more about Hong Kong cyber should know. Let's look into what they actually mean.

Noun phrases
Cyber Slang
Pronunciation
Literal meaning
Origin
Meaning
小學雞
xiu2hok6gai1
Primary chick
Cyber slang 小朋友
People who are immature, talk about childish things, criticize the others blindly
巴打
ba1da2
Slap hit
Brother
Golden forum’s male members, this is used to show the closeness between the members
絲打
si1da2
silk slap
Sister
Golden forum’s female members, this is used to show the closeness between the members
CD-ROM
/
A computer hardware
Compact Disc Read Only Memory
“ Copy Download - Read Only Member”

(the members who only read the posts but do not reply the posts)
觀音
gun1jam1
Mercy Goddess
/
Female who take advantage on the males who admire her
觀音
gun1jam1bing1
Mercy Goddess’ soldier
/
Males who are obedient to every request of the female they admire

Verb phrases / Adjectival phrases

Cyber Slang
Pronunciation
Literal meaning
Origin
Meaning
食住花生等睇戲
sik6zyu6fa1saang1
dang2tai2hei3
eating peanuts while waiting for seeing a movie
the slogan of snacks band Mr Peanut
seeing others having conflicts without intervening
騎劫
ke4gip3
hijack
/
changing the direction of discussion at the posts
FF
/
/
Video games, Final Fantasy
illusion
耶青
je4ceng1
Jesus+ pale green (pronunciation similar to coconut in Chinese)
/
Youngster who are Christians
借刀
ze3dou1
borrowing a knife
/
making use of cyber network, netizens or traditional media to defame someone
On9
on6gau1
/
Cantonese foul language
Being stupid

Sources
http://evchk.wikia.com/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E7%99%BB%E5%B8%B8%E7%94%A8%E8%A9%9E%E5%BD%99

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