Talk:Long (Western surname)

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It literally means "dragon", and is also formatted as Long or Lung in other dialects, respectively.

"Respectively" doesn't seem to refer to anything here. Furthermore, the "Long" in this sentence is identical in spelling to the "Long" referred to at the beginning of the paragraph, surely.

Shouldn't this sentence therefore be:

It literally means "dragon", and is also formatted as Lung in other dialects.

? — 217.46.147.13 (talk) 15:57, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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