Re: Advice on if a name is too crazy or not
Wouldn't 麥俊郎 be better for your son's name?俊 mean "handsome"Ancient people often call elegant gentleman "郎"By the way 諸葛亮's equal 周瑜 was a famous handsome man, people called him 周郎 and his army "周郎兵"
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View ArticleRe: Advice on if a name is too crazy or not
QuoteTang Wouldn't 麥俊郎 be better for your son's name?俊 mean "handsome"Ancient people often call elegant gentleman "郎"By the way 諸葛亮's equal 周瑜 was a famous handsome man, people called him 周郎 and his...
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Very interesting Tang。I will do some reading up on it first。thanks :)
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According to both CantoDict and Pleco, 騫 is read as "hin1", but my girlfriend is adamant it should be read as "coi3". Is this the common way of reading it, is it a variant, or is she just mixing it up...
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Actually, it seems it was me and CantoDict that was doing the mixing-up. I was reading the expression 騫翁失馬 as "hin1 jung1 sat1 maa5", as it's entered in CantoDict, and she was adamant it was wrong. It...
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Another one discovered by my girlfriend; it seems 天秤 is listed as "tin1 cing3" in CantoDict in the compounds 天秤星座 and 天秤座. My girlfriend and Pleco both agree that it should be read as "tin...
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騫 [hin1] is definitely a mix-up with 塞 [coi3] in these expressions. 騫翁失馬 and 騫翁失馬,焉知非福 have thus been deleted.
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‘cing3’ is the only legitimate reading for 秤. There is no variant reading in 廣州話正音字典 (p.518), 廣州音字典 (p.414), 粵語拼音字表 (p.34), 廣州話方言詞典 (p.190), 廣州話普通話詞典 (p.319), 香港粵語詞典 (p.276), 自學廣州話 (p.106), the...
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Hi all,Are you guys serious?? 麥肥龍, 諸葛亮, and especially ...西門慶???1. 麥肥龍, is more like a nick name in Cantonese. I dont think you should use this name if you really want a serious name2. 諸葛亮, it is a...
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沈 pronounciation for surname. Is it sam2 or cham4?For surname, I have only heard of sam2.
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I notice you don't really say anything about asking about a specific part of Cantonese grammar. For instance if I wanted to ask how to use adjectives in Cantonese would I post it in this section or in...
View ArticleRe: What should this forum be used for?
I suppose this (“Practise Cantonese”) forum is the place if you want to ask about the usage of adjectives, and “Translate This” forum is the right one if you want to know how to translate some...
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