My idea of a wild Saturday night.
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My idea of a wild Saturday night. Reading about Axolotls in #Taiwanese. Let nobody say that I don’t know how to have a good time.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修replied to Will Buckingham | 白忠修 last edited by
This is clearly ridiculous behaviour. As if I am going to go up to my neighbours and say, in heavily accented Tâi-gí:"A-má! Let me tell you about the axolotl!"
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@willbuckingham Is Taiwanese Hokkien written differently from Chinese? Is it the word choice that makes it distinctive from Mandarin? And maybe the loan words that make it distinctly Taiwanese? Sorry that my starting point is ignorance!
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@pyrrho @willbuckingham
If you're interested in Taiwanese languages I can recommend the podcast "In Taiwan We Speak" https://en.rti.org.tw/radio/programView/id/1451
Some episodes starting with the one from January 9 are about Tâi-gí. -
Will Buckingham | 白忠修replied to fremandolasse last edited by
Thanks, @fremandolasse. I've listened to some of that RTI show, and it's great. I should listen again.
@pyrrho Taiwanese — as in Taiwanese Hokkien / Minnan — is roughly as different from Mandarin as English is from Dutch. Different vocabulary, grammar, different tonal system, and a pretty wild array of different writing systems which people love to argue over.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修replied to Will Buckingham | 白忠修 last edited by
Also, this is a good opportunity to share my favourite Axolotl joke.
Q: What do you call a baby axolotl?
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Will Buckingham | 白忠修 last edited by
@willbuckingham I can scare my only living grandmother, the Hokkien one, will telling her about this too!