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  2. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...

  3. Nón lá - Wikipedia

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    The recent and typical design of the non la was highly modeled after the coolies hat worn by Chinese laborers in British Malaya during the late 19th century. [ 3 ] In Vietnam today, there are a number of traditional hat-making villages, including Đồng Di ( Phú Vang ), Dạ Lê ( Hương Thủy ), Trường Giang ( Nông Cống ), Phủ Cam ...

  4. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    Later, in 1920, French-Polish linguist Jean Przyluski found that Mường is more closely related to Vietnamese than other Mon–Khmer languages, and a Viet–Muong subgrouping was established, also including Thavung, Chut, Cuoi, etc. [13] The term "Vietic" was proposed by Hayes (1992), [14] who proposed to redefine Viet–Muong as referring to ...

  5. La Gi - Wikipedia

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    Its name La Gi or Lagi [laː˧˧:ɣi˧˧] in Kinh language was originated from ladik [1] [laː˧˧:ɗɨt˧˥] in Cham language, which means "swamp" to reflect the situation of this area before the 1960s. Under the Republic of Vietnam regime, La Gi was the provincial capital of Bình Tuy province (present-day

  6. Chữ Hán - Wikipedia

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    The cover page of Hán-văn Giáo-khoa thư, the textbook used in South Vietnam to teach Literary Chinese and chữ Hán. The education reform by North Vietnam in 1950 eliminated the use of chữ Hán and chữ Nôm. [16] Chinese characters were still taught in schools in South Vietnam until 1975. During those times, the textbooks that were ...

  7. No such thing as a stupid question - Wikipedia

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    The article Ink Out Loud: There's no such thing as a stupid question,' and other ailments lavender cures [8] defines stupid questions as: . Questions asked by someone who already knows the answer but is trolling the person they are asking.

  8. Wikipedia:Stop that, it's silly - Wikipedia

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    Just like Monty Python's Flying Circus, sometimes, discussions on Wikipedia get a little bit beyond the grounds of sensibility, and so sometimes The Colonel needs to make an appearance to urge people to stop whatever they're doing instantly before things get too silly.

  9. Ridiculous - Wikipedia

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    A clown wearing a hat of a ridiculously small and incongruous size. The ridiculous often has extreme incongruity (things that are not thought to belong next to each other) or inferiority, e.g., "when something that was dignified is reduced to a ridiculous position (here noting the element of the incongruous), so that laughter is most intense when we escape from a 'coerced solemnity'."