Mark over at Pinyin News has posted about the latest issue of Sino-Platonic Papers, which is a paper by Deborah Beaser about the decline of the Taiwanese language. I feel the article contained a few flaws of fact and reasoning, but in general the conclusion she makes about the ‘inevitable’ decline of Taiwanese does not [...]
Archive for August, 2006
Taiwanese: a doomed language?
August 24, 2006So sorry: pronouncing phái*-sè
August 21, 2006A couple of people have asked me about the name of this blog and how to pronounce it. I was looking around for a suitable site to explain the POJ romanisation for Taiwanese but (of course, silly me) there isn’t one. If I were to give a rough approximation of the pronunciation of phái*-sè, [...]
Happy birthday Rob!
August 18, 2006My little brother is 20 years old today. Congratulations! Photo above features Rob (baby), myself and Dad in around 1987, when we lived in Saudi Arabia. Have a great time today bruv!
Online resources for Taiwanese learning
August 18, 2006One of the problems facing the Taiwanese learner is the severe lack of resources available for the language.
Better late than never…
August 18, 2006The pictures here were taken in the 8-23 Memorial Park (八二三紀念公園) in Zhōnghé (中和), Taipei County, about five minutes from where I live. The downtown bits of Zhōnghé are built-up, crowded and dirty (hmm, sounds like the whole west coast of Taiwan…) and so these little islands of green in amongst the urban chaos are worth treasuring.
