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Essay 1.0 draft -- How Languages in Taiwan are used (Urban use of language…
Essay 1.0 draft -- How Languages in Taiwan are used
the history of language
why the Southern part of Taiwan got a more country side accent
Taipei is the capital city, thus mandarin takes over taiwanese rapidly
Cities in the southern part of Taiwan is more original and still lots of people are used to speak taiwanese as their daily language, thus when they speak Mandarin, they got an accent
the evolution of language in different region
Urban use of language
no more punctuation
punctuations are replaced with spaces
the message is sent when the sentence is done
people use stickers
People use abrriviation
台北車站(Taipei Main Train Station) to 北車(Tai Train)
sometimes doesn't even make sense
A taiwanese reddit: ptt
origin of lots of memes and urban use of language
popular words reflected what most of the people think
廢(pronounce: f'ei) which means useless, but not in a offensive way, and his word I believe best describe my life in university in Taiwan
mostly posts from college students
some people like to show off their english skill by replacing a few words in the sentence to english
Sarcastic
people regard being sarcastic as a sense of humor
好棒棒(poeple said that when they don't think you're acting stupid, but they still said you doing fking great)
however this is not used offensively
isn't mean at all
Taiwanese(as a language)
more popular in Southern areas
normally spoken by our parents or grand parents
Anglicisms
a lot of word rooted from Japanese, and some of the Japanese originated from English
Example: Silicon(this word sound identical to english both in Japanese and taiwanese)
There isn't a complete dictionary of this language
There are too many ways to say the same word
Changes according to regions
Is now becoming a history because hard to put into words
The pronunciation is hard convert into any kind of words
Japanese
because of history
Taiwan is rule by Japan a hundred years ago
my grandparents can speak Japanese well
Comparison to the language used in China
Taiwanese sounds more gentle
The majority of Taiwanese are polite, because we are taught to be courteous to avoid conflict
Taiwanese tend to avoid sounding too direct, we felt impolite when doing that
People from China are more straight forward