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  1. @focus_taiwan_en
    If you call the #language "#Tâi_gí" in the headline, why use the inaccurate "Hokkien" in the body of the article? (How do you say "truck" in each of those separate languages?")
    #thoo_lá_khuh
    #khah_tshia
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  2. @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. 😡
    taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ar
    britannica.com/place/Taiwan
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  3. 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… 🤦🏽‍♂️
    google.com/search?client=firef
    #WordsDoMeanThings
    #GetItRightCNN!

  4. @focus_taiwan_en
    Don't say "#Taiwan 🇳🇫 island." (That's what #Chinese 🇨🇳 want you to say.) Say "one of Taiwan's outlying islands."
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  5. @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. 🤦🏽‍♂️
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  6. 📢 Dear #media in #Taiwan 🇳🇫,

    😱 Don't say "New Taipei mayor (etc.)." Say "Mayor (etc.) of New Taipei." It's much less ambiguous.

    💔 Love,
    🐕 Tim
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  7. @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. 😄
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  8. @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.
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  9. When somebody pointed out to me 19 years ago that I should say "#228_Massacre" instead of "#228_Incident (#二二八事件)," I immediately changed. I stopped calling it an "incident" evermore on March 5, 2007 after getting this message.
    #Taiwan 🇳🇫
    #台灣
    #二二八大屠殺
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  10. @georgetakei
    When #Trump says states "can't handle" elections, he means "can't rig them in his favor."
    #WordsDoMeanThings
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  11. @chasewnelson
    @CNN was saying "captured" at first; then they started using the milder "arrested." "Kidnapped" is a more accurate description. 🤔
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  12. @Lydie
    📢 Dear @guardian ,

    😱 You can't "reunify" things which were never together. 🤔

    💔 Love,
    🐕 Tim
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  13. @i47i
    Please don't repeat the mainstream media's inaccurate boilerplate.
    t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶m̶o̶c̶r̶a̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶i̶s̶l̶a̶n̶d̶
    the *independent democratic *country
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  14. @winsdominoes
    Whereas "simplified hanzi" are actually simplified from another form, those words aren't made "more complicated" than a traditional form, so "正體" is a better description.
    mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?pa
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  15. @CNN 's #Fareed_Zakaria is calling #Taiwan 🇳🇫 a "small island." 🤦🏽‍♂️

    "Small island"? No, not quite! Taiwan is the world's 38th largest. Even the "big island" of #Hawaii is only #76.
    bongo-www.thefullwiki.org/List
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

    The supposedly "small" island nation of Taiwan has an area of 35,960km², while the "Big Island" of Hawaii is 10,432 km².
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  16. @lolgop
    Goddam @nytimes also calls *anti-choice protesters "anti-abortion." 🤦🏽‍♂️ *Everybody* is anti-abortion — even the pro-choice crowd. 🤔
    #WordsDoMeanThings

  17. @HistoPol
    Always remember: For #China 🇨🇳, "being provoked" is a policy choice, not a visceral reaction
    michaelturton.blogspot.com/200
    michaelturton.blogspot.com/200
    #WordsDoMeanThings

    When #The_Economist is talking about #Taiwan 🇳🇫 & they say "the island," what they really mean is "the country." 😖

    @MichaelTurton says: It is irrelevant "what China maintains" since that is false. Actually, the fact that China's claims are false is more relevant than the claims themselves…
    michaelturton.blogspot.com/201

  18. @JSharp1436
    It wasn't a question.

    "Does that help?" No. You're simply repeating #China's 🇨🇳 #terminology. #Taiwan 🇳🇫 can't be #independent "from China" because it was never part of the #PRC.
    #WordsDoMeanThings