Message from @transience
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Scary bit of land grab going on in that area
With chinks hogging up islands, expanding them to house military bases
USA speaks English, doesn't mean they are from England.
that's what they think
You don't hear much Chinese on the streets in Taiwan, especially in the South and East @plasticsword
Min Nan still the preferred language outside of Taipei?
By far. My girlfriend's parents don't even speak proper Mandarin
But they live in the middle of nowhere so I don't know if that counts
That's a stretch
I've only met 1 or 2 families who still speak min nan from Taiwan.
almost everyone i know here knows how to speak taiwanese/minnan
it's generally considered a lot more casual
though it can just depend on whatever both parties feel like, i've heard it used in many different settings
certain politicians that want to appear more "taiwanese" will use taiwanese in speeches
as with @porco said, if you go south of taipei, taiwanese will be used more and more until it's just what people will assume you'll use by default
I wish there was a nice resource to learn min nan / Taiwanese from English
it's a beautiful language and I only know a handful of insults
ji bai
kan ni na
pua ma :D
does someone have the big china steel greentext
this one?
aye, thanks
np
a friend mentioned intentions to work in the car industry in china
so i had to tell him
Oh my god
I hadn't read that before
Holy shit <:thinkjojo:333980344044879872>
I knew China was fucked but holy damn
i love that greentexrt
everytime i read that greentext its more relevant
It's true
Too much reckless abandon for short term individual gain
Likewise I've had Chinese bosses in the US who got out of the rat race in China, set up shop in the US
and continued their fraud practices
Usually talking up a good game, making one sample, then a solid second order
Third order is a container, in which they've cozied up, and they'll pay later via invoice
Get the goods, sold, never pay for the third order which was the container load, claiming the items were defective or etc
They got the money selling the otherwise functional items from retail, the producers in China were fucked, and likewise cycles down etc etc