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[Travis B.]

"Tong" isn't used in the singular in any standard variety of English I know. I'd call these "pasta tongs".

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.

[Travis B.]

OTOH, the above uses of "clip" and "clamp" certainly are not cromulent.

[Linguoboy]

OTOH, the above uses of "clip" and "clamp" certainly are not cromulent.

Product ads these days are full of sus machine translations. I never trust them anymore when trying to learn new vocabulary in a non-native language.

[xxx]

the more resources and the less efficient we are...
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Product ads these days are full of sus machine translations. I never trust them anymore when trying to learn new vocabulary in a non-native language.

Wait, these are real ads??? My initial read was that xxx made them as a joke. I had a good chuckle about that.

[TomHChappell]

"Tong" isn't used in the singular in any standard variety of English I know.

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’d call these "pasta tongs".

I think that’s right!

[bradrn]

"Tong" isn't used in the singular in any standard variety of English I know.

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 this ‘tong’ is etymologically unrelated.

[TomHChappell]

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 this ‘tong’ is etymologically unrelated.

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?

[bradrn]

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?

According to Wiktionary:

• 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.

[Travis B.]

• The other meaning is from Cantonese 堂 tong⁴.

Somehow I just knew it had to be from Cantonese.