In this chapter, we’ll briefly visit the protocol we communicate with. It’s intended to be just a short outline of what is required to conduct basic communication.

Since the full protocol specification is a fast moving target, this will the the first as well as the last attempt to enumerate the vocabulary of this protocol apart from the prototypical version.

Version (yrs, updated daily): 1.25

The protocol consists mainly of spoken Cantonese words, with one or two exceptions, e.g. of ‘Head’, which she pronounces as ‘Aht’. As demonstrated by this example, although the protocol contains the same vocabulary in both directions, the same word in the upstream direction can sound somewhat different and often ambiguous when compared to the downstream direction, thus context must be taken into consideration when used.

Here’s a list, by no means complete and in no particular order. Words without an observed pronunciations are only understood but not observed. Also, since S/N can be low at times, it’s likely there are words with non-trivial meanings that are yet to be recognised by us.

There are 5 prominent usage of these words, all are understood, but only the first 2 forms are observed.

1. noun
2. verb
3. verb object
4. subject verb object
5. questions with yes/no answer or ‘where’

Note that the in-built fuzziness of the protocol complicates its usage by sporadically altering part(s) of words by insertion and/or deletion.