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I go to school by bus
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Chinese
Etymology
Originated as Internet slang from mid-2012, adopted from an example sentence from an zh en - textbook in Hong Kong in the 1990s.en 2021-03-29 Cheung, Catharina Localiiz: Living in Hong Kong I Go to School by Bus: Hong Kong English & its unique usages https://web.archive.org/web/20230828141350/https://www.localiiz.com/post/culture-local-stories-history-hong-kong-english-unique-usages
Pronunciation
yue /aːi̯²² kou̯⁵⁵ tʰuː²² skuː⁵⁵ paːi̯²² pɐs⁵⁵/
Phrase
zh phrase
zh Hong Kong Cantonese humorous originally Internet slang
A dummy response to questions when an English answer is expected.
A dummy phrase used to signify the speaker's lack of proficiency of English.
zh 2018 w:FAMA 港女收港男皮 學咗幾廿年英文仲yes no what / I go to school by bus You've learned English for many years but you're still "yes", "no", "what", "I go to school by bus".
A dummy text to be used as a placeholder for English text, such as in typesetting.
See also
English en donde esta la biblioteca
English en I'm fine, thank you
Portuguese pt the book is on the table
German de my English is not the yellow from the egg, but it goes
Russian ru London is the capital of Great Britain
References
zh terms written in foreign scripts placeholder terms
yue lemmas phrases