I thought I had learned the Cantonese word for "police", because that was what I heard everyone, including little kids and tiny elderly grandmothers, call out when they saw riot cops coming. It turns out I had learned the Cantonese word for "dog".
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There's also some beyond-PhD level Cantonese profanity happening, because even 14 weeks into the protests, some people find things to yell at riot police that make the crowd burst out laughing, and cause the target to make a run at them (restrained by laughing colleagues).
10:41 PM - 8 Sep 2019
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