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#taiwanese

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I have a whole bunch of marine puns in a different language that I doubt more than 1 other person at work would understand.

In Taiwanese / Hokkien,

‘Hae’ means shrimp
‘Heh’ means fish

So since I was a child my cousins and I have always been saying shrimp shrimp shrimp or fish fish fish for ‘hehehehe’ laughing

It was meant to be

Typesetting in four languages — #Taiwanese or #台語, #Mandarin or #中文, English & Gaelic — is a challenge. But the proofs for our short story collection translated between Taiwanese and Gaelic are coming into shape. And they're beautiful. Stories by Elissa Hunter-Dorans, Kiú-kiong, Naomi Sím & Lisa MacDonald.

The book is available on pre-order, and will be out in June, after which we're planning events in both the UK and Taiwan.

books.windandbones.com/product

Wind&Bones BookshopTâigael: Stories from Taiwanese and Gaelic, ed. Hannah Stevens & Will Buckingham (June 2025)PRE-ORDER Support our work in language diversity by pre-ordering Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese and Gaelic. When the book is published in June...

身為台灣福佬,我對深綠有一個臍帶的情感,所以忍不住就會看鄭的節目, 但是我實在沒辦法忍耐他們對川皇的癡迷
As #Taiwanese Hoklo I have a umbilical connection to the Deep Green ideology so I cannot help to watch Zheng's programm, but I really cannot bear their obsession with Trump
youtube.com/watch?v=Zglz8zXDFG

@skinnylatte as soon as you posted this, my instinct tells me #Taiwanese soldiers are involved Sook-Ching, as I had many relations at my grandparents generation who went to 南洋 .
yes, the sad sad brutality of imperial power is to drive people even the subjugated to commit atrocity 🙏🙏🙏 as shameful as I am feeling, let's learn from this.

"Prominent among the invaders’ henchmen was Wee Twee Kim (Huang Duijin, 黃堆金), an interpreter-turned-enforcer"
taipeitimes.com/News/feat/arch

台北時報 · Book review: Taiwanese as second-class imperialistsBy 台北時報

I'm in #Taiwan to significantly improve my Mandarin but I've both selected a basic introduction to #Taiwanese (indigenous language) class for the coming semester as well as fallen ever more into #Sanskrit grammar that I've never academically studied under a professional teacher this far but checking sources has so far been incredibly fun while deriving inspiration for my #worldbuilding for a later book in my series (the air themed book will take place in a #Himalaya inspired region)

A question for those who know pe̍h-ōe-jī. For punctuating direct speech, do you:

a) prefer double quotation marks
b) prefer single quotation marks
c) really not care... there are bigger issues to worry about...

#台語 #tâi-gí #taiwanese

In Tân Lûi's "Lán lâng ê si-kài," which is the only POJ text I have to hand, there are double quotation marks.