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Showing posts with label chinese_language. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Of #nnevvy, Subaltern Linguistics and Global Divides (social justice language and authoritarian agendas: Part 2 of Zillions)

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Strap in, folks, because this post goes to a few different places. Anyone who cares about regional politics in Asia and hangs out on Twit...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

No, those MRT station codes are not useful

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An article ran in CommonWealth Magazine recently about the usefulness of Taipei MRT's use of Hanyu Pinyin, and the letter/number codi...
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Friday, March 1, 2019

Deliberately Lost in Translation: How Language Is Used to Obfuscate Taiwan's Reality

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Consume any mainstream English-language media about Taiwan, and you'll come across an abundant lexicon of terms that sound as though ...
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Friday, October 12, 2018

If you think Taiwanese have no sense of humor, perhaps that's because you don't get it.

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I hear it a lot: some expat dude (it's usually, though not always, a dude) who decides to hold forth and grace us with his deep knowled...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Yes, Ko is using Xi's language on "one family"

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from ETToday A piece by former Sunflower leader Lin Fei-fan came out today, warning of Ko's embrace of Xi Jinping's and China&...
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Sunday, August 26, 2018

Crazy, Rich Nations

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Original photo from Wikimedia Commons (to be fair this movie has actually made me want to return to Singapore, but mostly for the food) ...
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