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You never imagine that it is actually offensive

# culture difference

I used to play video war-like shooting game, I tend to pick my role-play as a lone wolf which I really like. But I never thought that is a negative term in English when you describe person.

Once I joined a language exchange event (English exchange with Cantonese) hosting by a group from Meetup apps. That day I was arranged to chat with an energised young ABC who like to travel a lot. He talked enthusiastically about his traveling of North Korea, how he made fun with staff of museum, pretend himself innocence to ask sarcastic questions to made hard time to guides. We had good chat whole time.

Until almost end of the event, we were wrapping some conclusions, I made a real innocence and ignorance 無知 離地 of English comment on this guy. I said: “You are a lone-wolf”. After he heard that, he reacted with this, and said: “ Wow, it is not a compliment 讚美.” I asked dubiously 懷疑地 : “Why? I like to become a lone wolf when I am playing video” Then he started to explain to me that native english people use it as non -cooperative , might describe colleague who doesn’t like hanging with others , and someone who like to keep to themselves.

Learning English still long way to go. hope I can keep improving everyday

see ya

I quite angry the accuracy of Siri via my Airpod 1st generation. Ninety-nine percent it turn out wrong, meaning that while I neglected thousands Hong Kong dollars phone’s notorious Siri function basically as I quite often to listen to my itunes playlist by Airpod.

Now, today, I am trying turn off the bluetooth on my iphone xs , and my Airpod bluetooth with my Apple watch directly, especially, my watch is LTE with paid plan, seemingly they ( watch and phone) are still paired somehow, maybe LTE or wifi, I don’t know, after all the connected icon still here;



But what I am trying to say is that my Siri is totally back on track. There absolutely are pros and cons. Cons is that this moment no reminders syncing the watch. But if the watch still can receiving call , it will be totally fine with me. Because my earbuds now connected with my watch. So this moment, I take out my another big tab phone calling myself……..it works! Awesome.

Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Hong Kong er Basic bitchMay 22, 2019

In Chinese culture and as a Chinese basic bitch, I am scared with using the topic idiom.

Most we talk to someone 「你問和尚借梳 」 in Chinese is similar to “ barking to the wrong tree” . But when I use English to write in a mail , I never use this English version especially they are not really good at English. As in Chinese culture, it is easy to make an impression that you are saying the receiver is a dog. Maybe foreigners will ask : “ so what as a dog, my dog is so cute , I love it” .

You know what: in chinese culture they always say dog is a bad things. Such as

走狗 lit. run dog , mean Lackey , more:

門口狗

無聲狗

一條狗

and ever when you spat 吵架 with someone, people tend to use dog as an scorn term to discriminate others.

Once I asked my English teacher, check whether has discrimination implied, the answer is NONE ! But all that said , 話雖如此， I still haven’t use it so far.

you mutt 笨蛋 – Mongrel dog 雜種狗

• 1
: a stupid or insignificant person : fool
• 2
: a mongrel dog : cur
Examples
• it’s an expensive camera, and I’d rather not turn it over to some mutt
Origin
short for muttonhead dull-witted person.
First known use: 1899
Synonyms: airhead, birdbrain,


Tsui Wah tea set only cost penny cost 26 Hong Kong dollars- 2019-05-18

Not only Tsui Wah make a decent 還不錯的 tea set with a little portion of money, even gimmicky iced the butter the pineapple bun, the delicacy 佳餚 Hong Kong style dish has been always an succubus 女妖 in Hong Kong make people cannot resist.

Remark :succubus (plural succubi or succubuses)
(mediaeval folklore) A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.

Google Search Tsui Wah in Hong Kong Tai Po:
tsui wah – Google Search
Tsui Wah official Website
翠華集團

Pineapple Bun with Iced Butter – Tsui Wah – delicacy in Hong Kong