Previous threads …
Yes I know I’ve beaten this dead horse here before but
apparently my one man vigil in Taiwan has ‘progressed’ to AMERIKA.
Yes ac I still Taser anyone who uses “Mainland China” within my earshot
I’ve just returned from ‘Dave’s’, haranguing the debaters about learning “Chinese” (read Mandarin)
in Taiwan or ‘Mainland China’.
These people aren’t faux ABC’s like ac but have picked this neologism up from — ?
CNN talks about the “Beijing, China Olympics”, not the “Beijing, Mainland China Olympics…
I’ve noticed the term Mainland seems to be used more lately and am curious if there is some outside influence or just coincidence causing the usage of this particular word instead of referring to Taiwan as Taiwan or ROC, China as China or PRC, Hong Kong as Hong Kong or Special Administrative Region, etc.
And basically, like with most language, people use it because other people use it. I try to avoid it but it slipped into my vocabulary long ago and still pops out once in a while.