Au Pak-kuen also comments: "This is the origin of the way Hong Kong people mix English words into their Chinese sentences, producing something which is 'neither Chinese nor Western.'" This habit is often criticized in Hong Kong cultural circles.
此即香港文化界常批評的「香港人的語言總是中文句子夾雜著英語，『不中不西』的由來」，區伯權也說。