Talk:agger

RFD discussion: January–March 2023

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agger

Chinese. Combine the definition under English. Mahogany115 (talk) 03:29, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

Keep under Chinese. This is most commonly found in Chinese contexts hence it should be tentatively treated as a Chinese word. Though I must note that the line between English and Chinese is very unclear due to heavy code-switching and what is commonly called "Konglish", i.e. Internet usages using English vocabulary and Cantonese grammar, which is why I included the English quote there. – Wpi31 (talk) 05:18, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

The use in a fully English context (no other signs of codeswitching) suggests that it could also be English. It's probably more of an RFV issue of whether this word is used in a Chinese context. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 00:11, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

• Moved to RFV. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 05:51, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

RFV discussion: March–November 2023

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Chinese. The only quote given is in a fully English context, which makes it seem like it's English rather than Cantonese. Is this used in (predominantly) Cantonese contexts? — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 05:51, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Cited using non-durably archived sources. This would require 2 weeks of discussion. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 19:02, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Google Books says it's used in page 277, but I can't see the preview. It would be cited if we manage to see the original. (it's an ebook but still helps anyways) – Wpi31 (talk) 19:13, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

@Wpi31: Yeah, I also found that. I suspect it might be on the next page, which isn't available to me in the preview unfortunately. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 20:03, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Try this. You can't go to the page, but searching within the text from preview brings up (at least for me) a snippet with the paragraph that contains the word. You may get better results if you change ".com" to whatever your country's domain suffix is (e.g. Hong Kong would use ".com.hk"). Chuck Entz (talk) 04:12, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

I've already tried that (and also changing the domain to others, including .com, .co.uk, .co.jp, .fr, .es, .de), but none of them work. The paragraph from the preview should be good enough, but we (at least I) want to be extra sure to avoid scannos, and to understand the context which is chopped off at the start of the sentence. – Wpi31 (talk) 05:05, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Regardless of the quote from Google Books, I think the quotes are accepted. In particular, the final one (HKET TOPick) is an online tabloid, so it is somewhat representative and arguably durably archived. – Wpi31 (talk) 05:10, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

• RFV passed. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 15:50, 6 November 2023 (UTC)