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To: Squeeky
I’ll go look it up...
I'll save you the trouble...
United States v. Wong Kim Ark

...in behalf of Wong Kim Ark...
Because the said Wong Kim Ark...

It's littered throughout.

...Wong Kim Ark sounds really weird for a somebody from there.
Now you're just playing stupid.

Because the said Wong Kim Ark, although born in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, United States of America...

128 posted on 06/21/2011 11:28:00 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36
<i>Now you're just playing stupid.

I think what Squeeky means is the name doesn't sound "Chinese" (i.e., Mandarin), because in Mandarin syllables never close with "m" or "k". To my ear, it sounds Cantonese (and perhaps Wong himself was a Cantonese speaker). At that historical juncture Cantonese names were commonly used in the West -- e.g., "Peking" for "Beijing".

277 posted on 06/23/2011 5:45:58 PM PDT by Nathanael1
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