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ang pagsasabi ng tapat ay pagsasama ng maluwat

It is "ang" not "Ang" - that is a surname. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:19, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

The proverb to us reads as a complete sentence. JaijetJasmin (talk) 12:50, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

You seem to be fixated on this concept of "cross-cultural equivalents". Unfortunately, that's not something dictionaries deal with. This sentence or phrase means something in Tagalog, and it's our job to provide a definition that explains in English what that Tagalog meaning is, as well as providing information about its origin, its pronunciation, its relation to other Tagalog terms and perhaps something about its grammar and usage- that's it. Please don't try to make a dictionary entry into something it's not.

The "cross-cultural equivalent" has been supplemented on the reference section. JaijetJasmin (talk) 20:34, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

You also need to look at our entry layout rules so you don't keep abusing them. Also, please remember that this is a wiki: once you contribute something, anyone else has just as much right to edit the entry as you do. It doesn't matter what your original concept was, others will do their best to make it into a properly-formatted dictionary entry and possibly rework it in other ways, so constantly reverting their edits is very poor wiki etiquette. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:57, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

A dictionary can be a lot of things. One example which predates wikis is The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy first published in 1988. It is my hope, with no intent of abuse, to explore the flexibility of the wiktionary. JaijetJasmin (talk) 06:48, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

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maluwat

I know that this entry shouldn't be deleted, but stop removing the RFD template from this entry. You are edit warring and ignoring the basic guidelines of how to create entries on Wiktionary. If you continue to remove the tag, you may be blocked. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 22:23, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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Could you add {{Babel}} to your user page? I'd appreciate it. --Dan Polansky (talk) 21:13, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

kalaunan - etymology

Hi. Please check the etymology of kalaunan. What did you try to do? It does not seem right. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 04:02, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

The etymology is correct. The example is a step up of its figurative quality. JaijetJasmin (talk) 04:21, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

The etymology is currently "ka- +‎ laon- ‎(“old”) +‎ suffix- +‎ an". I don't suppose "suffix-" is part of the word? Is "an" a suffix? Is "laon-" a word or a suffix? --Daniel Carrero (talk) 04:31, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

laon is the root word, and 'ka' is the prefix and 'an' is the suffix. Is my format correct? JaijetJasmin (talk) 04:39, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. I fixed the entry, so it's correct now. In the future, you can copy what I did in the entry, with the hyphens in the correct places, like this: "ka-" and "-an". You only need to specify the language "tl" once in the template. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 04:44, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Ok, many thanks! JaijetJasmin (talk) 04:48, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

tapat

One of the part of speech headings you added here was "compound word". But this is not a part of speech. So what is this word really? —CodeCat 17:17, 15 August 2016 (UTC)