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User:Prosfilaes undid my rfd, although it's not allowed to do so, until it's discussed. Here you go - my reason for rfd: not English, not in Roman script, attestability doesn't make this word English. --Anatoli02:15, 30 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
Should be completed, of course, but people sometimes just toss on a tag. What I do when I find an incomplete one like that is complete the process. But that’s just me. —Stephen(Talk)07:56, 1 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
Delete Yes, common sense shows that people using it used the foreign term intentionally and humorously, not because they needed it to express their idea. But this reasoning should not lead to delete foreign words used in the language because they are felt as the most appropriate to express something, such as kimono or bouillabaisse, even when they are very rarely used in the language. Lmaltier16:12, 1 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
Double standards, Lmatier? Why a Cyrillic word in English is not OK but Thames in Mandarin is OK? Or you think you have a better understanding of its usage in Mandarin? --Anatoli01:52, 2 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
Delete per SGB unless it can be shown (which I doubt) that the word is used as English and not as Russian (or other) in English.—msh210℠ (talk) 17:50, 2 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
They're not parallel; Москва is unquestionably a real word, and will still have an entry if the English section is deleted. If Thames河 is a real word, then we need to have an entry under some language header.--Prosfilaes07:29, 3 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
Thames河 is SOP, and we will still have both parts even if the sum is deleted. If we decide to keep it despite it being SOP and conscious code-switching, it would be inconsistent not to keep Москва, which is just conscious code-switching but not SOP. The two are parallel; the argument for keeping Thames河 (either where it is, or at Thames#Mandarin) is that it is conscious use of the term in a Chinese sentence; this argument, if valid, also saves Москва (which is consciously used in an English sentence). - -sche(discuss)07:46, 3 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
That's right, 河(hé) just means "river", which is always attached to river names but river names are always written in Chinese characters, not Roman, no matter how little known they are, if they written in Roman or other scripts, they are not in Chinese, very much like Москва is not English, even if it's inside an English sentence. (Moskva is more attestable (not only as river but city), international airports often use Moskva, meaning Moscow.) Thames河 represents the code-switching in the actual the name of the river. There are also examples of "Москва市" on the internet (Moscow city).--Anatoli08:01, 3 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
I think the script difference is a bit of a red herring. The key, as Prosfilaes notes, is whether a word brought in from a foreign language is used as the source language, or as the host language (i.e. the language of the majority of the utterance; for "至yeah" this would be Cantonese, for "Москва" in this discussion it would be English, for "Thames河" in this discussion it would be Mandarin).
Proper nouns are generally so specific that they only signify their referrant -- the "Thames" in "Thames河" only refers to the same "Thames" that is signified in English. Moreover, as others have noted, "Thames" in Mandarin contexts is almost always spelled out in hanzi. Both points argue that alphabetically spelled "Thames" in Mandarin contexts is being used as English.
That said, if a term takes on a meaning specific to the surrounding host-language context, as in "至yeah", a much stronger argument can be made that it has been adopted into the host language, regardless of the script used. In this case, "yeah" used to signify "trendy" is quite different from usage in English, and points to the adoption of "yeah" into Cantonese, no longer as an English word, but now as a specifically Cantonese term.
As a side example, "Washington" in English is generally a proper noun, indicating either the state or the capital of the US. The word was adopted into Navajo in a way that made it into a more general-use term, which now means Washington, DC, the federal government, or a government in general. In this case, "(deprecated template usage)Wááshindoon" is used not just as the English place name, but as Navajo, with meanings specific to usage in Navajo contexts.
I hope this helps tease apart some of the arguments, vis-à-vis scripts, and use in vs. as a language. Since we deal with the written forms here at WT, I think we sometimes get sidetracked by the visual representations, and perhaps lose sight of some of the other aspects of language. -- Cheers, Eiríkr ÚtlendiTala við mig17:46, 3 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
@Atitarev: I see that you've removed the RFV tag on the entry. You've removed the pronunciation, which is clearly problematic, but I don't see that this is resolved for the word's existence in Dungan. — justin(r)leung{ (t...) | c=› }21:00, 28 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Justinrleung, Metaknowledge: I only wanted to verify the pronunciation when I added the RFV, I have no issue with the existence of the word. My краткий дунганско-русский словарь(kratkij dungansko-russkij slovarʹ) has an entry (with no space) "МОСКВАДИ I-III-I - московский." (all Dungan entries are capitalised, tones are in superscript notations). ди(di) is a relational particle, so москвади(moskvadi) is an equivalent of Mandarin 莫斯科的 ― Mòsīkē de ― Moscow's. The actual (exact) pronunciation is unknown, since the spelling "Москва" doesn't follow Sinitic tone shapes. It may be either respelled and pronounced differently (not as spelled) or pronounced like Kyrgyz or Russian would pronounce the word. The second is more likely since the tone notation above suggests only three tones. (If following User:幻光尘's suggestion it would be four). Dungan is not a well-documented language, so most of the terms come from a couple of sources. The word Вурус(Vurus) does exist, again, it's not clear how exactly it's pronounced. --Anatoli T.(обсудить/вклад)02:34, 29 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
