Talk:kam

kam
—Suzukaze-c (talk) 22:23, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I've never heard of this, but words.hk has kem5 instead of kang3 for its pronunciation. Also might need to check the English entry out. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 22:31, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

RFV discussion: October–November 2022
Chinese. (Etymology 1) Pronunciation does not match the spelling of word at all. The etymology when the entry was created is dubious: "Romanisation of 勤", when 勤 does not mean awkward or weird. Duplicate of #Etymology 2 (which I added back then and did not think they are the same thing) – Wpi31 (talk) 10:59, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * RFV failed. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 01:22, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

RFV discussion: October 2022–February 2023
(Etymology 2) For me this word seems to be a Cantonese word spelt with the Latin alphabet, but it certainly has not gained much usage in English. – Wpi31 (talk) 10:54, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

RFV Failed, not in OED (which has etymology 1) nor Green's. Ioaxxere (talk) 02:53, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The explanation you give is rather bewildering. Looking for modern Hong Kong English slang in OED is a ludicrous proposition. A similar comment probably applies to Green's Dictionary of Slang, although I am not very familiar with that work. Words of this type are very difficult to verify, which is why nobody has closed the RFV yet. I think we should give it a few more months. This, that and the other (talk) 10:00, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Maybe it's "so difficult to verify' because it doesn't exist? Ioaxxere (talk) 16:00, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I've checked major Hong Kong Usenet groups (i.e. hk.* and soc.culture.hongkong), and none of the appearance of "kam" bears this meaning. (For other HKE slang it's often possible to find at least a couple of cites from there) I think we can archive this now. – Wpi31 (talk) 18:21, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
 * PS: this is the same word as kam (Etymology 1), which at least does appear in one online dictionary. – Wpi31 (talk) 18:23, 20 February 2023 (UTC)