How to say “Talking past each other” in Cantonese
gai1雞tung4同aap3鴨gong2講
gai1 tung4 aap3 gong2 · Talking past each other
Literally a chicken talking to a duck. Used when two people cannot understand each other.
The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.