Frightening Mandofication

Working hard on our new film Simply The Worst, a frightening sci-fi look at what happens when the government forces simplified characters on us. So I suddenly remembered the above film about speech-making communist language Mandarin.

There’s been a worrisome development in Hong Kong where locals now are tying themselves in knots trying to answer me in Mandarin when I talk to them in Cantonese. They’ll do anything, it seems, except speak their own language.

Oh yes, the “liberation” of Hong Kong into the linguistic straitjacket of the mainland is coming. We must stand guard around Cantonese! Never shy away from the discussion with locals when they say Mandarin is “more convenient” and “easier” or whatever. Make them see that Cantonese is their culture and that Mando has nothing to do with Hong Kong.