As one retired officer from Shantung puts it: "I learned her language, and learned to eat millet cakes; she learned my language, and how to make noodles."
娶茂林鄉魯凱小姐為妻的山東籍退役少校李鼎臣舉簡單的例子說：「我學吃小米糕和說魯凱話、她學做麵食和說家鄉話」。