#NSS文化
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I may use abbreviations, and may make careless grammatical mistakes or spelling mistakes. I apologize for this first. If you find some, I’m happy to learn from my mistakes so that my English can be improved.
Let me go straight to the point. An issue has been bugging me for quite a long time already and I would like to talk about it. This is the matter about using English.
Every time someone submits an English article, there will be at least a quarter of the comments complaining that the article is in English, demanding translation, criticizing the submitter for “not respecting Hong Kong culture”, saying that “this is Hong Kong”, criticizing the submitter for using English with a view to showing that they are “very outstanding”, “you don’t fucking know how to speak Chinese? On9” or comment “I go to school by bus” and its variants to express sarcasm to the submitter for using English. I have the intention of discussing this issue for a long time already. Now that I see so much of these comments, I would like to refute each point one by one below.
“I don’t understand English, translation pls”
Submitters are secondary school students, the English they use won’t be like Shakespeare’s. Do you really not understand? Or are you merely pretending? I think the answer is blatant. Even if you really don’t understand, you can look up the words in a dictionary, and learn a few English vocabs along the way. Isn’t this nice? Allow me to word it more bluntly, I apologize if it’s insulting: if you don’t wanna read it cuz you don’t understand, then don’t read it. Since everyone learns English at school, submitters assume that everyone knows basic English. So please don’t use “if they use Arabic, do I have to learn it too?!” as a counterargument.
“You don’t respect Hong Kong culture, this is Hong Kong. We speak Chinese in Hong Kong, if you wanna speak English, go to foreign countries.”
Hong Kong used to be a British colony. Up to this day, English is still an official language of Hong Kong. In other words, using English is a part of Hong Kong culture. You may say, HongKongers speak Chinese in their daily lives, why do we use English when typing and writing? I think we understand the difference between writing and speaking. You also use English when texting others on WhatsApp, but you won’t speak English when chatting with others casually. Even if English isn’t an official language of Hong Kong, even if the British Empire haven’t ruled Hong Kong before, it’s undeniable that English is the lingua franca of the world. This is not limited to Hong Kong, as nearly every country in the world has made English learning compulsory for young students. You may think it’s unfair. Why is it that I have to learn English, but not the foreigners learn Chinese instead? Well, the “sad” truth is that, the British Empire had ruled a quarter of the world at its greatest height (excluding the United States of America) and its former colony, the United States, is still, up to this day, the only Superpower on Earth. The cultural legacy of the British Empire still has a profound impact on the world. Plus, this situation has persisted since the end of the second world war. I hope that you can accept this truth. If you want to change this, you can join the Communist Party of China, and help China surpass the United States of America, spreading Chinese culture to the world, and increase the soft power of China. If so, it’s fine not to use English, and people from other countries to use Chinese instead.
“Using English won’t show that you are outstanding”
I can understand your previous two views, but when I hear the argument that “using English is to show that you are outstanding”, I’m utterly puzzled. Of course, I would not deny that some people may use very sophisticated words that we won’t use in our daily lives in their English articles in order to show that their excellence. But most of the time, the submitters use very basic English, and the choice of diction is precise and simple, but still there are a lot of people who criticize them that their intention of using English is to show that they excel at English. Actually, are the people with this assertion suggesting that English is superior over Chinese? Then you really should work hard on learning English. Actually, typing and writing in English instead of Chinese has various merits. Although some may hold opposing views, on average, writing English is faster than Chinese, and in a lot of occasions, typing English is faster than Chinese too. And using more English can help improve your English. A lot of people set their phone and computer language to English, and imo, reading English is more comfortable in contradistinction to Chinese. What I want to say is, there are a lot of reasons people use English, so I hope you don’t surmise people’s intention of using English. I also contend that the vast majority of people wouldn’t use English just because they want to show off.
“You don’t fucking know how to speak Chinese? on9”
People do use profanity to attack people who use English. I’m not exaggerating. To begin with, using profanity wouldn’t prove that you “know more Chinese” than others. It just proves that you have a low EQ and cultural level. It’s totally fine to use profanity when talking to your close friend. But using profanity to attack people who use English will just show your low cultural level. Responding to the point, does using English means not knowing Chinese or other languages? Following the same logic, does using Chinese means not knowing English? This logic is utterly contemptible, total bullshit. People who say these kind of arguments, please don’t embarrass yourselves.
I repeat my article in Chinese, so you can freely choose the language you want to read.
我有樣嘢想講好耐，就係關於用英文呢個問題。
每次有人以英文投稿，樓下就起碼有四分一嘅comment喺度抱怨點解係英文，要求翻譯，責怪投稿者“唔尊重香港文化”，講“呢度係香港”，批評投稿者為顯示自己“好勁”而使用英文，”你係咪唔撚識講中文啊on9″ ，或者comment “I go to school by bus” 等諷刺投稿者使用英文。呢個問題其實我想講好耐，以下我會逐一反駁以上嘅論點。
“我睇唔明英文，唔該翻譯”
投稿者都係中學生，佢哋嘅英文都唔會好似莎士比亞咁。你係真睇唔明，定係扮嘢，大家心裡有數。就算你睇唔明，你可以查字典，學幾隻vocab，順便學下英文，咁咪幾好? 容許我直率D講句，少有冒犯唔好意思: 如果你睇唔明而唔想睇，咁你唔好睇囉。因為大家喺學校都有學英文，投稿者assume所有人都識基本嘅英文，所以請唔好以”咁你用阿拉伯文我係咪都要學啊” 嚟反駁。
“你唔尊重香港文化，呢度係香港，香港係講中文，要講英文你去外國”
香港曾經係英國嘅殖民地，都今時今日英文仍然係香港嘅官方語言之一，換句話講，使用英文係香港文化嘅一部分。你可能會話香港人平時講嘢都係用中文，點解寫嘢打字要用英文？講嘢同文字嘅不同之處，大家都明白。舉個例，你WhatsApp text人有時都會用英文，但係唔會無啦啦傾緊偈就去講英文。就算英文並非香港官方語言，就算英國冇統治過香港，無可否認，英文係國際通用語。唔單止係香港，全世界幾乎所有國家都規定學生要學英文。你可能覺得唔公平，點解係我學英文，唔係外國人學中文? 冇辦法，大英帝國領土極盛時期統治全球四分一嘅陸地(不含美國)，加上英國前殖民地美國都今日仍然係全球唯一嘅超級大國，大英帝國所遺留落嚟嘅文化遺產至今仍影響深遠。而且呢個情況自二戰結束以來已經係咁，希望大家接受。如果大家想改變，咁你可以加入中共協助中國超越美國，將中國、漢語文化發揚光大，咁你就可以唔使用英文，而係其他國家嘅人學中文。
“你用英文唔會顯示你自己好勁”
上兩個觀點可以理解大家嘅諗法，但係我聽到人話“用英文係顯示自己勁”我真係理解唔到。當然，我唔否定有人會特登喺篇英文嘅文章入面用D好sophisticated，日常唔會用嘅字嚟顯示自己英文勁，但係往往投稿者用嘅英文都係好basic，用詞亦精簡而明，但係都仲有人批評佢用英文係為顯示自己。其實，有咁嘅諗法嘅人係咪覺得英文比中文superior? 咁你更加要學好英文囉喎。其實，打字、寫字用英文取代中文有好多好處。雖然有人會唔認同，但係平均嚟講用英文寫嘢快過中文，好多時候打英文亦快過打中文，而且用多D英文亦可以提升自己英文水平。好多人嘅手機，電腦語言亦係英文，而我個人覺得睇英文比睇中文舒服。我想講嘅係，人哋用英文有好多原因，希望大家唔好揣測人用英文嘅目的。而我亦想講絕大部分人亦唔會為顯示自己以用英文。
“你係咪唔撚識講中文呀ON9”
真係有人用粗口鬧D用英文嘅人，我唔係誇張。首先，你用粗口係唔會顯示到你中文勁過人，只顯示到你EQ低同文化水平低。你同好友傾偈講粗口冇問題，但係你用粗口鬧人講英文，只會顯得你冇文化。回應返呢個論點，講英文即係唔識中文或者其他語言？用返呢套邏輯，係咪用中文即係唔識英文？呢套邏輯根本就係Bullshit。 講D咁嘅嘢嘅人可唔可以唔好出嚟令自己尷尬?
有grammatical mistakes或者spelling mistakes嘅話sorry
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