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- Mandarin<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n
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- (Standard<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>\r\n
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- (Pinyin<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: c\u0101nt\u012bng<\/a><\/span><\/dd>\r\n
- (Zhuyin<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: \u3118\u3122 \u310a\u3127\u3125<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
(Dungan<\/a>, Cyrillic<\/a> and Wiktionary<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: \u0446\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0438\u043d<\/a> (cantin, I-I)<\/span><\/p>\r\n
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- Cantonese<\/a> (Jyutping<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: caan1<\/sup> teng1<\/sup><\/span><\/li>\r\n
- Hakka<\/a>\r\n
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- (Sixian<\/a>, PFS<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: chh\u00f4n-th\u00e2ng<\/span><\/dd>\r\n
- (Hailu<\/a>, HRS<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: con\u02cb<\/sup> tang\u02cb<\/sup><\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<\/li>\r\n
- Southern Min<\/a>\r\n
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- (Hokkien<\/a>, POJ<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: chhan-thia\u207f<\/a><\/span><\/dd>\r\n
- (Teochew<\/a>, Peng'im<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: cang1<\/sup> tian1<\/sup><\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<\/li>\r\n
- Wu<\/a> (Shanghai<\/a><\/i>, Wugniu<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: 1<\/sup>tshoe-thin; 1<\/sup>tshe-thin<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n
(Wiktionary<\/a>; see Appendix for more detailed notes in various Sinitic topolects)<\/p>\r\n
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The fact that MSM\u00a0c\u0101nt\u012bng<\/i>\u00a0means exactly the same thing as English \"canteen\" adds to the befuddlement, but, as we shall see in the following paragraphs, the two words (c\u0101nt\u012bng\u00a0<\/i>and \"canting\") are completely unrelated and mean two entirely different things.<\/p>\r\n
English \"canting\", as we've been discussing it in the past week or so, means:<\/p>\r\n
1560s, \"practice of using thieves' cant,\" verbal noun from cant<\/a> (v.1).<\/p>\r\n
—–<\/p>\r\n
cant (v.1)<\/p>\r\n
1560s, \"to speak in a whining voice,\" from cant<\/a> (n.1). From c. 1600 as \"to speak in the jargon of thieves and vagabonds;\" 1670s as \"talk hypocritically in pompous phraseology.\"<\/p>\r\n
(etymonline<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n
I first learned about the English word in the expression \"thieves' cant\":<\/p>\r\n
Thieves' cant<\/b> (also known as thieves' argot<\/b>, rogues' cant<\/b>, or peddler's French<\/b>)\u00a0is a cant<\/a>, cryptolect, or argot which was formerly used by thieves, beggars, and hustlers of various kinds in Great Britain<\/a> and to a lesser extent in other English-speaking<\/a> countries. It is now mostly obsolete and used in literature and fantasy role-playing<\/a>, although individual terms continue to be used in the criminal subcultures of Britain and the United States.<\/p>\r\n
Cant<\/a> is a common feature of rogue literature<\/a> of the Elizabethan era<\/a> in England<\/a>, in both pamphlets<\/a> and theatre<\/a>. It was claimed by Samuel Rid<\/a> to have been devised around 1530 by two vagabond leaders \u2013 Giles Hather, of the \"Egyptians\"<\/a>, and Cock Lorell, of the \"Quartern of Knaves\" \u2013 at The Devil's Arse<\/a>, a cave in Derbyshire<\/a>, \"to the end that their cozenings<\/a>, knaveries<\/a> and villainies<\/a> might not so easily be perceived and known\".
<\/sup><\/p>\r\n(Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0— with much talk of canting [including dictionaries] and Romany language)<\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\r\n
There are other English \"canting\" terms, e.g.:<\/p>\r\n
in American English<\/span><\/div>\r\n\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\r\n(<\/span>\u02c8k\u00e6nt\u026a\u014b<\/span>)<\/span><\/div>\r\n\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\nadjective<\/span>\r\n\r\naffectedly or hypocritically pious<\/a> or righteous<\/a><\/div>\r\na canting social reformer<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n - (Teochew<\/a>, Peng'im<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: cang1<\/sup> tian1<\/sup><\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<\/li>\r\n
- (Hailu<\/a>, HRS<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: con\u02cb<\/sup> tang\u02cb<\/sup><\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<\/li>\r\n
- Hakka<\/a>\r\n
- (Zhuyin<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: \u3118\u3122 \u310a\u3127\u3125<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
- (Pinyin<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>: c\u0101nt\u012bng<\/a><\/span><\/dd>\r\n
- (Standard<\/a><\/i>)<\/small>\r\n
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