Actually HK say am

HK Cantonese more lazy

which part of DLLM you dont understand?

so far the 1 pronounce as 'Nei' is Leon Lai only... and he originated from Beijing

Because Cantonese never abandoned the ancient tones, causing the language to be much more complex.

This reminds me of this video. Turn on captions for English:

u watch tvb too much

our local is mix rojak....

hk is pure cantonese...

dllm

Hk will recognize our slang cuz a lot of Malaysian tourist go there.
Then again hk n Guangzhou Cantonese in some areas also different slang, guangxi Cantonese mix with their own local words n u can understand a bit

It's due to a thing call lazy a.k.a. 懒音
U may find in YouTube for explanation
To make it simple, its like simplified chinese, easier to pronounce

Lot's of hker also doing this especially when they day 我

Same here

Local hongkie thought i am local haha

This hongkie or guangzhou

This post has been edited by Immunityx7: Apr 19 2020, 03:17 PM

A lot of words used these days there has the "lazy" pronunciations, though. They stopped using the "ng" sound in front.

Like "ngam" becomes "am" and so on. Although this is catching on here as well due to TV influence. We used to do it correctly.

Can think of it as how scholars are studying Korean and Japanese to learn how ancient Chinese pronounce their words. When it was borrowed over, the pronunciations stuck but Chinese kept evolving. Same like the Cantonese here. Some of it has been stuck from 1800s but Cantonese has continued evolving in China and Hong Kong, but TV shows has been synchronising us, though.

Since I have roots from HK and visit 2 to 3 times a year (before fcuking COVID19 stopped all that), my nephews and nieces ensure my Cantonese is up to the mark - kids are brutal... no give face. Wrong word, wrong pronunciation, they’ll rip you apart hahaha.

Congratulations for opening a PN troll free thread. For once I don’t have to read stupid comments from those sohais

Hak hap (blackbox) lar 67. DIU LEI LOU MOU.

this can be use in HK and malaysia.

When I was kid I heard hk drama said Lei, now they said Nei. Expert said Nei is correct one .

canto in KL influenced by hakka

malaysian chinese migrated from mainland not from HK

At least we got ka ka ciau ciau