#wordsdomeanthings — Public Fediverse posts
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@taipei_times
"#KMT lawmaker" isn't a specific enough description of this heathen.
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@focus_taiwan_en
What if everyone were to refer to it henceforth as the Southeast Asia Sea?
http://www.change.org/petitions/change-the-name-south-china-sea-to-southeast-asia-sea
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@focus_taiwan_en
"Without vital signs"? Is that how you say "dead" now? 🤦🏽♂️
#CouldTheyBeRevived? 🤔
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Dear @taipei_times editors,
"China, which *groundlessly* claims #Taiwan 🇳🇫…"
Love,
Tim
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@analytics
By using the phrase "toward #China 🇨🇳," you misleadingly make it sound like #Taiwan 🇳🇫 is the aggressor. Taiwan fired the rockets at targets 9 km offshore, but China's nearest point is 160 km away from #Taichung. 😡
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/06/11/2003858905
https://www.britannica.com/place/Taiwan
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Yo, @taipei_times , you need to put that 💩 in quotes! 🤦🏽♂️
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@focus_taiwan_en
Did you say "not non-transmissible"? 🤦🏽♂️
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@taipei_times
📢 Dear #Taipei_Times editors,😱 #William_Lai (#賴清德 #DPP) is the #president, not just a generic unelected "#leader."
💔 Love,
🐕 Tim
#總統
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@taipei_times
📢 Dear #Taipei_Times editors,😱 #William_Lai (#賴清德 #DPP) is the #president, not just a generic unelected "#leader."
💔 Love,
🐕 Tim
#總統
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@taipei_times
📢 Dear #Taipei_Times editors,😱 #William_Lai (#賴清德 #DPP) is the #president, not just a generic unelected "#leader."
💔 Love,
🐕 Tim
#總統
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@taipei_times
📢 Dear #Taipei_Times editors,😱 #William_Lai (#賴清德 #DPP) is the #president, not just a generic unelected "#leader."
💔 Love,
🐕 Tim
#總統
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@davidonformosa
Similarly, all sorts of people should stop calling the #country "the #island." 🤔
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@davidonformosa
Similarly, all sorts of people should stop calling the #country "the #island." 🤔
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@Jazone
#Taiwan 🇳🇫 is not now nor has it ever been part of the #PRC 🇨🇳, so it canNOT "declare #independence *from* #China 🇨🇳." 🤔
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I'm not calling them "fake media," but they're absolutely wrong about this… #CNN doesn't know shit about #Taiwan 🇳🇫. The #US' 🇺🇸 so-called "one #China 🇨🇳 policy" does NOT "recognize" that Taiwan belongs to the #PRC. It only *acknowledges* that China holds this position. I thought CNN knew better… 🤦🏽♂️
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=China+Taiwan+acknowledge+recognize
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@PwNeilo
Lai's trip to #Eswatini 🇸🇿 wasn't "canceled" — it was merely *postponed. 🤔
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@PwNeilo
Lai's trip to #Eswatini 🇸🇿 wasn't "canceled" — it was merely *postponed. 🤔
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@africa
Call him #president. He is an *elected* leader worthy of more than that simple title.
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RE: https://pbs.idv.tw/@taipei_times/116520138302877763
* #KMT / #TPP legislators block…
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RE: https://pbs.idv.tw/@focus_taiwan_en/116520687746431140
Normalize accurate media coverage of #state_visits by #Taiwan 🇳🇫. 🤔
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@georgetakei
The correct term is "#conspiracy_theory," but don't call it that either 'cuz "#TheBoyWhoCriedWolf" is crying wolf for the thousandth time. 🤔
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@georgetakei
The correct term is "#conspiracy_theory," but don't call it that either 'cuz "#TheBoyWhoCriedWolf" is crying wolf for the thousandth time. 🤔
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@focus_taiwan_en
Don't say "#Taiwan 🇳🇫 island." (That's what #Chinese 🇨🇳 want you to say.) Say "one of Taiwan's outlying islands."
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@taipei_times
34°C is *hot*, not "warm.
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@focus_taiwan_en
Is there an editor in the house? Look at the first two words of your headline. Read them aloud if you have to. 🤦🏽♂️
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@franciswashere
No need for the qualifier "effectively."
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@franciswashere
No need for the qualifier "effectively."
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@focus_taiwan_en
Pro tip: NEVER put the word #Taiwan 🇳🇫 directly after the word #China's 🇨🇳! 😡
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@focus_taiwan_en
Pro tip: Never put the word #Taiwan 🇳🇫 directly after the word #China's 🇨🇳. 😡
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Yo, @taipei_times editors! Bad translation! 「中國台灣」 should be translated as (the fictitious) "#Taiwan 🇳🇫 region of #China 🇨🇳."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/03/30/2003854705
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@taipei_times
"So-called." You forgot to say "so-called."
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@focus_taiwan_en
Don't say "New Taipei Mayor Hou Yu-ih" — say "Mayor of New Taipei, Hou Yu-ih" because it's much less ambiguous. 🤔
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😱 Don't say "New Taipei mayor (etc.)." Say "Mayor (etc.) of New Taipei." It's much less ambiguous.
💔 Love,
🐕 Tim
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@cxiao
Please don't echo the #KMT's #terminology. 🤦🏽♂️
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@LoneLocust
It's taken many years, but I've gotten my wife to use the word "#Mandarin" (#華語) in place of "#Chinese" (#中文) and to stop saying "#mainland" (#大陸)… most of the time. Teach by example. 😄
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@LoneLocust
It's taken many years, but I've gotten my wife to use the word "#Mandarin" (#華語) in place of "#Chinese" (#中文) and to stop saying "#mainland" (#大陸)… most of the time. Teach by example. 😄
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@LoneLocust
It's taken many years, but I've gotten my wife to use the word "#Mandarin" (#華語) in place of "#Chinese" (#中文) and to stop saying "#mainland" (#大陸)… most of the time. Teach by example. 😄
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@LoneLocust
It's taken many years, but I've gotten my wife to use the word "#Mandarin" (#華語) in place of "#Chinese" (#中文) and to stop saying "#mainland" (#大陸)… most of the time. Teach by example. 😄
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@LoneLocust
It's taken many years, but I've gotten my wife to use the word "#Mandarin" (#華語) in place of "#Chinese" (#中文) and to stop saying "#mainland" (#大陸)… most of the time. Teach by example. 😄
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@LoneLocust
I have one of those names, but I call it my "#Mandarin_name" because we don't speak "#Chinese" 🇨🇳 (ex.: 出租車,西紅柿,視頻,菠蘿,三文魚,早上好,勺子,鼠標, etc.) in #Taiwan 🇳🇫. 😄
#華文名字.
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@LoneLocust
I have one of those names, but I call it my "#Mandarin_name" because we don't speak "#Chinese" 🇨🇳 (ex.: 出租車,西紅柿,視頻,菠蘿,三文魚,早上好,勺子,鼠標, etc.) in #Taiwan 🇳🇫. 😄
#華文名字.
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I used to call the #228_Massacre the "#228_Incident" and used to call #Lunar_New_Year "#Chinese_New_Year," but now I know better.
我之前把228的狀況稱為「#事件」。現在知道應該把它稱為「#大屠殺」,不再說「事件」。
#WordsDoMeanThings = 「字眼真的有其意義」以及「字眼會做壞事。」
#Taiwan 🇳🇫
#台灣
#二二八大屠殺