{"id":87377,"date":"2016-04-12T09:42:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T01:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=87377"},"modified":"2016-04-14T16:53:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T08:53:49","slug":"tsang-plays-see-why-word-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/tsang-plays-see-why-word-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsang plays &#8216;See Why&#8217; word game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>Eyebrows were raised when Legco President Tsang Yok-sing poked fun at Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying in a word play in his newspaper column published on March 24. Writing about the fun and wisdom of Chinese couplets (\u5c0d\u806f), Tsang has won thousands of &#8220;likes&#8221; on social media and apparently offended some others when he put Leung Chun-ying (\u6881\u632f\u82f1) together with national security law (\u570b\u5b89\u6cd5) in the form of a couplet.<\/p>\n<p>Emulating a form of Chinese couplets that match words whose contents and themes are totally unrelated, Tsang wrote Leung&#8217;s name could tie well with national security law in Chinese. He explained Leung (\u6881), in Chinese, is both a surname and a noun that is related to landscape. It is fitting to match it with nation (\u570b), or\u00a0<em>kwok<\/em>\u00a0in Cantonese. Chun (\u632f) is a verb that could mean vibrate and rejuvenate. Its opposite could be peace and security, or<em>\u00a0on<\/em>\u00a0(\u5b89) when pronounced in Cantonese. Ying (\u82f1) could mean Britain (\u82f1\u570b), or\u00a0<em>ying kwok<\/em>\u00a0in Cantonese. The word &#8220;law&#8221; (\u6cd5), pronounced as\u00a0<em>fat<\/em>\u00a0in Cantonese, could mean France (\u6cd5\u570b). So, &#8220;ying&#8221; matches well with &#8220;fat (law)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mindful of the sensitivity of his word play, Tsang made a declaration of &#8220;no-hidden-agenda&#8221; at the end of his column: &#8220;There is no special message. Just for fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In another go on word play in his column carried in free Chinese daily AM730 yesterday, Tsang turned to pun to play satire with Leung again.<\/p>\n<p>Full article:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/04\/11\/tsang-plays-see-why-word-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2016\/04\/11\/tsang-plays-see-why-word-game\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":87378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17613,8,21137],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/cy0412.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-mJj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":92999,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/blame-the-system-or-cy-leung\/","url_meta":{"origin":87377,"position":0},"title":"Blame the system or CY Leung?","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"June 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Chris Yeung Like the spring weather in Hong Kong, whether former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa supports Leung Chun-ying for his second term is unclear, at least for now. 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