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you're probably right... the only I'm sure is 3DSL one...
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For some reason "tong" does not seem ungrammatical to me at least, like "I used a salad tong to remove salad from the bag and place it in the bowl", which for me is cromulent.
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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OTOH, the above uses of "clip" and "clamp" certainly are not cromulent.
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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the more resources and the less efficient we are...
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Wait, these are real ads??? My initial read was that xxx made them as a joke. I had a good chuckle about that.
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In places that have Chinatowns, and Hong Kong, and probably Taiwan, and maybe Singapore, a “tong” is pretty much the Chinese equivalent of a Japanese zaibatsu. If there’s a difference, it might be that tongs always have a political “department”, whereas I’m unaware of most zaibatsus having any permanent political sub-agency.
Maybe “triad society” is the phrase British-derived HongKongians use for “tong”?
HK English is in my opinion a standard variety of English. (I could be wrong!)
I think that’s right!
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I suspect this ‘tong’ is etymologically unrelated.TomHChappell wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 12:51 pmIn places that have Chinatowns, and Hong Kong, and probably Taiwan, and maybe Singapore, a “tong” is pretty much the Chinese equivalent of a Japanese zaibatsu. If there’s a difference, it might be that tongs always have a political “department”, whereas I’m unaware of most zaibatsus having any permanent political sub-agency.
Maybe “triad society” is the phrase British-derived HongKongians use for “tong”?
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bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 1:07 pmI suspect this ‘tong’ is etymologically unrelated.TomHChappell wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 12:51 pm In places that have Chinatowns, and Hong Kong, and probably Taiwan, and maybe Singapore, a “tong” is pretty much the Chinese equivalent of a Japanese zaibatsu. If there’s a difference, it might be that tongs always have a political “department”, whereas I’m unaware of most zaibatsus having any permanent political sub-agency.
Maybe “triad society” is the phrase British-derived HongKongians use for “tong”?
I suspect it’s borrowed into English from some Chinese lexeme. Don’t know which Chinese language (or “dialect”).
What’s the etymology of the other tongs? Like, for serving salad?
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According to Wiktionary:TomHChappell wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 1:14 pm I suspect it’s borrowed into English from some Chinese lexeme. Don’t know which Chinese language (or “dialect”).
What’s the etymology of the other tongs? Like, for serving salad?
- The more common meaning comes from West Germanic *tangu of the same meaning, ultimately from PIE *denḱ- ‘to bite’
- The other meaning is from Cantonese 堂 tong4.
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Somehow I just knew it had to be from Cantonese.
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.