It feels like anything I ask about has an answer like this: "oh yeah, that's a pun because 'banana' in Cantonese sounds like riot helmet, plus they put in the character for weasel. Also it's an allusion to six classical Chinese poems and a popular Cantopop song from the sixties"
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Meanwhile, never forget what attempt at propaganda the mainland authorities lobbed at us foreign English speakers like a cultural hand grenade in Augusthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVQTA34NKP0 …
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Dying to read the essay about how Cantonese language was weaponized in the defense of Hong Kong, and mainland China's linguistic chauvinism used as an effective shield against influence operations, infiltration on online forums and among frontliners in person
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@jmulich pointed me to this lovely thread by@maryhui a while ago. But I want the other half of this story too—how the mainland's linguistic blindness about the diversity of Chinese makes them less good at oppressionhttps://twitter.com/maryhui/status/1154093412330557441 …Show this thread
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