Originally Posted by
carrotjuice
Another gripe... once you exit the plane, out come the mobile phones and you encounter individuals yelling into them (or groups at each other!) in loud Cantonese or Putonghua! For some reason, talking discretely isn't in their blood. If you hadn't realize you've arrived at HKG, well, you surely know by then!
But you forget Cantonese is not a spoken language, it is a yelled language. Even civilized, polite, high-brow conversations in Cantonese sound like people are arguing about whose mother was insulted first/worst.