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Re: the name Ernest in Cantonese

If I translate it, I would write 向尼斯特 for Ernest and 向尼 for Ernie.

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Re: the name Ernest in Cantonese

HK used to transliterate the name ‘Ernest’ of the late Hollywood actor Ernest Borgnine < [zh.wikipedia.org] > as 喧尼斯. I think 向尼斯 is a better transliteration.In Cantonese, the last phoneme /t/...

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空气质量一般

Does this mean air quality is "ordinary"(一般) ?

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Re: 空气质量一般

I guess so,

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Re: 空气质量一般

moderate[blog.sciencenet.cn]

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Re: 空气质量一般

Quotepkchan moderate[blog.sciencenet.cn] this means air quality is acceptable?

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Re: 空气质量一般

一般 = the usual, not necessarily acceptable or unacceptable

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Macdull video -失敗 is the mother is success question

I know this is a trivial question but any help would be appreciated. I was watching this video for character study and I heard two different pronunciations of 堅定. The mother at first kept saying 'in...

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Re: Macdull video - '失敗 is the mother of success' question

The mother at first kept saying 'in ding' and it kind of sounded like 'in1 ding6'.I listened several times to the mother’s speech and have concluded that it sounded correctly as ‘gin1 ding6’.So my...

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Re: Macdull video - '失敗 is the mother of success' question

Thank you, I think I am starting to hear it better now.

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Re: Macdull video -失敗 is the mother is success question

QuoteMatFayLong孝義 haau3 yihm6 - showing filial piety That should be haau3 yi6h's are superfluous if you have the tone numbers. Also no "m"

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Re: Macdull video -失敗 is the mother is success question

Oh, sorry, that was I typo on 孝義. I edited it.And for me I'll keep the h's, I know they're not needed it's just I like using them sometimes because they are used in the Interesting Cantonese book...

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塭 ?

Does anyone happen to know this character 塭 ? It's meaning and pronunciation? It is not in the dictionary.

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Re: 塭 ?

wan1(pronounced as 溫)means "low-lying wetland" eg: 魚塭 Aquaculture Area

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Re: Kongish

MatFayLong is correct that the (very direct) translations are just and only for fun. Don't treat it serious.

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Re: MCJin - 711 rap

够知, in this case, means "already know"MC Jin's message was "Why do you need to say it to me?" (implying that it's unnecessary) "I already know."

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Read family names

https://ibb.co/nkTqT5Can someone make out the first name 黃 something. His initials are Y. P.Also,the names for the last three seem to use the character 哠 but I can find a Cantonese pronunciation for...

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Re: Read family names

黃雨普吳元明黃皓俊黃皓冰黃皓瑛

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