Taiwanese people's use of Chinese tones

[OrangeOrganics]

Yeah but I’m not a 50 year old Taiwanese.

I just think some accents sound nicer than others. Like the really educated Beijing one. You can just tell fits the language better.

Some accents speaking English sound nicer than others

[OysterOmelet]

@OrangeOrganics

Some Chinese accents sound really nice to me, like the educated Beijing accent.

If someone spoke English with a squeaky voice would you find that attractive? That’s what she sounds like.

[OrangeOrganics]

She speaks nicely

[the_bear]

But to a Geordie they’re speaking it right. You try telling them they’re speaking it wrong at closing time on a Saturday night in Newcastle…

[Chris]

@OysterOmelet

Her tones are wrong. She butchered 舌頭 she2tou2. She said she2tou5, for example.

That’s standard Putonghua pronunciation, though.

[hansioux]

@OrangeOrganics

And I don’t remember the KMT brainwashing anyone

總統 蔣公紀念歌

If you don’t have this song stuck in your head since when you were 6, you are probably not qualified to talk about the subject.

[OrangeOrganics]

No I mean, I personally have never been brainwashed by the KMT, not that the KMT didn’t do any brainwashing.

I think that some accents when people speak Chinese are nice, in the same way I think some accents of people speaking English sound nicer than others. And you probably feel the same

[Charlie_Jack]

@OrangeOrganics

And I don’t remember the KMT brainwashing anyone

As to recent times, I can’t disagree with that, but I think they deserve credit for doing the best they could under the circumstances.

Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou presided over a ceremony Friday to pay respects to the Yellow Emperor at the Martyr’s Shrine in Taipei, one day before the annual Chinese Tomb Sweeping Festival.

–Xinhua, “Taiwan leader pay tributes to Yellow Emperor,” China Daily, April 4, 2009

Attended by Premier Sean Chen (陳冲), Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平), Judicial Yuan President Rai Hau-min (賴浩敏), Control Yuan President Wang Chien-hsien and other Cabinet members, Ma led a memorial ceremony held at Taipei Martyrs’ Shrine for the legendary Yellow Emperor, the second time since Ma took office in 2008.

–Fan Cheng-hsiang and Su Yung-yao / Staff reporters, “President exalts Yellow Emperor,” Taipei Times, April 4, 2012

A government document ordering schools’ procurement of teaching materials that mark Nanjing as the capital of the Republic of China (ROC) and Taipei as the current location of the central government indicated President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration’s persistent attempts to promote the links between Taiwan and China, as well as the administration’s misinterpretation of the Constitution, lawmakers and academics said yesterday.

–Chris Wang / Staff reporter, " Schools to teach Nanjing is ROC capital: ministry," Taipei Times, December 4, 2013

The statement also slammed remarks made earlier by a high-ranking Ministry of Economic Affairs official, who described the agreement as “beneficial to the students because after its implementation, they can work in China and earn NT$52,000 a month, rather than [the] NT$22,000 [they would make in Taiwan].”

(square-bracketed words in original)

–Chen Yi-ching and Rachel Lin / Staff Reporters, with Staff Writer, “University heads call on Ma to respond to occupiers,” Taipei Times, March 23, 2014

[OrangeOrganics]

I mean myself, i haven’t been brainwashed by the KMT

[OysterOmelet]

@Chris

That’s standard Putonghua pronunciation, though.

News to me.

[Explant]

@TT

@meishijia

I think it depends where

Obviously it does, but again we go to the problem of what is “proper”

Dont get me started on how the English have bastardized English!

[TT]

I’ll start: they dont even pronounce the ‘r’ at the end of proper!

[tempogain]

Good example of how poorly r’s are used in some dialects.

[Explant]

[papertowel]

Or that the say “mosque” instead of “mask”. My only other three native English speaking friends here are British and one of these days I’m going to make them a cardboard mosque to put on their faces when they go out.

[tempogain]

You shid not make fun of New Zealand accents.

[meishijia]

@papertowel

I’m going to make them a cardboard mosque to put on their faces when they go out.

Can’t wait

[bdog]

That would be so hilarious, to other people from, er, wherever you’re from.

[meishijia]

@bdog

wherever you’re from

He’s from India, some place called nopolis I think

[tommy525]

Heavily accented Taiwanese Mandarin doesn’t sound very good except for comedy value but the average Taipei girl speaking Mandarin sounds pretty nice partly because most of them have forgotten how to speak Taiwanese