http://girlmeetsformosa.com Discovering the History of Taiwan and My Family Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://girlmeetsformosa.com/2011/12/12/from-the-ministry-of-silly-chinglish-shirts/#comment-610 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:09:44 +0000 http://girlmeetsformosa.com/?p=1168#comment-610 hilarious!

]]> http://girlmeetsformosa.com/2011/12/12/from-the-ministry-of-silly-chinglish-shirts/#comment-607 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:38:10 +0000 http://girlmeetsformosa.com/?p=1168#comment-607 Hey check out (and like) an awesome video interview with the talented playwright David Henry Hwang of “Chinglish” at: http://culturecatch.com/vidcast/david-henry-hwang

]]> http://girlmeetsformosa.com/2011/12/12/from-the-ministry-of-silly-chinglish-shirts/#comment-590 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:53:42 +0000 http://girlmeetsformosa.com/?p=1168#comment-590 A favorite from a man practicing tai chi in Fuxing Park, Shanghai: Celebrating Black History Month

]]> http://girlmeetsformosa.com/2010/09/28/ting-xie-or-how-i-learned-to-love-chinese/#comment-588 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:51:09 +0000 http://girlmeetsformosa.com/?p=365#comment-588 Kimbelina! well now, the ESL world went and got its knockers in a twist over how to teach students to write decades ago. Basically because we’re obsessed with the idea that our writing has to correspond to sound in some way. But actually English orthography might have a lot more in common with Chinese: it’s morphemic, not phonetic. In the UK a couple of guys have been teaching dyslexic kids to write English as collections of morphemes, (I know this because my dad reviewed the book) and they were inspired by Japanese. Its an interesting thought, because English, like Japanese has a double register of vocabulary which alternates mainly between Latin/Greek French and Anglo-saxon. Imagine English were written in Kanji. Imagine two characters that when put together use their greek readings, but seperately use their regular english ones. then mind doctor and psychiatrist would be written exactly the same. Further if you knew that psych meant mind and iatr (doctor) and ist (profession) you can then also decode a whole other bunch of words.
Basically I think it would be really good if you had a text where the morphemes of each word were colour-coded. then you could learn the smaller blocks of english much faster rather than having to learn a whole new word each time.

]]> http://girlmeetsformosa.com/2011/12/12/from-the-ministry-of-silly-chinglish-shirts/#comment-587 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:36:37 +0000 http://girlmeetsformosa.com/?p=1168#comment-587 Wank wins

]]> http://girlmeetsformosa.com/2011/12/12/from-the-ministry-of-silly-chinglish-shirts/#comment-584 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:17:33 +0000 http://girlmeetsformosa.com/?p=1168#comment-584 The Time Traveling T-Shirt as well as the “Winner the Pooh” T-Shirt were my favorites.

]]> http://girlmeetsformosa.com/2011/12/12/from-the-ministry-of-silly-chinglish-shirts/#comment-582 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:49:17 +0000 http://girlmeetsformosa.com/?p=1168#comment-582 Um, Tascha, I feel like you need to add photographic evidence to prove that your comment is a veritable quotation, and not just you shooting off your mouth with expletives. I am, however, a witness to that shirt in question…. so yes, it DID happen.

]]> http://girlmeetsformosa.com/2011/12/12/from-the-ministry-of-silly-chinglish-shirts/#comment-580 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:01:49 +0000 http://girlmeetsformosa.com/?p=1168#comment-580 This is a funny post. I agree, how I miss Taiwan.

]]> http://girlmeetsformosa.com/2011/12/12/from-the-ministry-of-silly-chinglish-shirts/#comment-579 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:00:11 +0000 http://girlmeetsformosa.com/?p=1168#comment-579 HA! STOIC! Be gentle with the young! If you fuck me I will eat you! Corpse! Mushroom Quiche! Oh, the silly shirts. Oh, Taiwan, I miss you.

]]> http://girlmeetsformosa.com/2011/12/12/from-the-ministry-of-silly-chinglish-shirts/#comment-578 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:46:47 +0000 http://girlmeetsformosa.com/?p=1168#comment-578 I know, right?!

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