User talk:Nkywvuong

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老撾, 寮國, 萬象, 永珍[edit]

Hi, I have noticed that you've made some edits to these entries. I wanted to remind you that we are not just concerned with official usage, so the outright removal of all those labels for Singapore and Malaysia might not reflect reality of usage in these areas. I also wonder if you have any sources for this edit, especially for Penang Hokkien and Ho Chi Minh City Cantonese. — justin(r)leung (t...) | c=› } 11:05, 8 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

抱歉,我直接长话短说,就我所知,寮(國)及永珍,目前仅仅是台湾用语及过时用语,反而老挝及万象才是大多数地区标准汉语的标准用词,我想目前我在国内(两岸三地),并偶尔会读到新马华语文章,国内及新马华语使用情况,我应该比任何北美及其他亚太区以外的人都再清楚不过了,如有冒犯,不好意思。 Nkywvuong (talk) 09:14, 9 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
新马华语的正式用法始终可能和现实生活的使用有所出入,不能概括的断定这些是过时的用语。而槟城福建话、胡志明市粤语的用法,您是否真的知道它们实际的情况呢? — justin(r)leung (t...) | c=› } 13:45, 9 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Sunquat[edit]

If I found a word in, say, Lithuanian that made perfect sense semantically as the derivation of the word, would I be justified in insisting that was the origin, even though there was no indication that the coiner of the word knew Lithuanian at all? While it's true that the ancestry of the parent plants and the word "kumquat" itself derive from China, that doesn't mean that the newly coined name had any Chinese connection at all. Just FYI: in US culture, citrus are associated with warm and sunny climates, so English sun would be perfectly normal as an element in citrus names. See Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, for example. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:27, 1 October 2023 (UTC)Reply