Kuan?

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Old55
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How often does your wife or significant other use the word Kuan?

I'm curious..... what is your definition? :89:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEEy615Jzg4

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Dave Hounddriver
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All the time.  But the people I know pronounce it like a very soft 'who' followed by wan.  Like who-wan and it comes across like 'one' and the definition is close enough that we often use the word one interchangeably with kuan.  Like:  Where is the one (kuan) that we use to cut the grass.

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Jollygoodfellow
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just trying to figure out what the video has to do with the question?  :)

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Old55
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My wife uses Kuan all the time as in "Gimme dat ting" :dance:

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JJReyes
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In Hawaii there is something similar as in, "dah kine." I keep hearing "sumida" in Korean conversations so it must be their equivalent to "kuan."

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lyno 47
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The nearest I can work out is if they don't know the name of what they are looking for they just say Kuan  which leaves me no option but to give her a bunch of stuff and hope for the best. :bash:

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MacBubba
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My wife uses Kuan all the time as in "Gimme dat ting"

 

You've got it!  My wife has never used "kuan" (some even use "ano", which means what), but she goes around looking for "things".  As in..."where did I put that thing".

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Mike S
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The nearest I can work out is if they don't know the name of what they are looking for they just say Kuan  which leaves me no option but to give her a bunch of stuff and hope for the best. :bash:

 

 

My wife uses Kuan all the time as in "Gimme dat ting"

 

You've got it!  My wife has never used "kuan" (some even use "ano", which means what), but she goes around looking for "things".  As in..."where did I put that thing".

 

 

Yup my take on the word also .... kuan (Tagalog) ano (Visayan) ..... I hear ano all the time .... kinda like when we say "you know" meaning they can't quite think of the word to use or what you want to say .... JMHO .... :thumbsup:

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GregZ
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I hear it quite a bit, but it is more used as, "ummmm" or "well" when someone is thinking of the next thing they are going to say.  BTW, they are using kuan as a Visaya word where I am in Cebu City. :tiphat:  I think they have a tendency to mix 3 languages together for the full effect of confusion. :bash:  Wish I understood at least 2 of them. :hystery:

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Julia
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just trying to figure out what the video has to do with the question?  :)

:mocking:

I hear it quite a bit, but it is more used as, "ummmm" or "well" when someone is thinking of the next thing they are going to say.  BTW, they are using kuan as a Visaya word where I am in Cebu City. :tiphat:  I think they have a tendency to mix 3 languages together for the full effect of confusion. :bash:  Wish I understood at least 2 of them. :hystery:

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