Conor
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Live & work in Taipei. Interested in Chinese, Taiwanese & English lit. 在台北生活的阿凸仔，喜歡看小說、看電影。 Reading: Killing Commendatore & 水問; Chess .com: Conorscruff
Blog: https://www.translatingtaiwan.com
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A #buttery #wine is one of those terms you overthink when it comes to #translation. My ABC friend was trying to translate the concept at a wine bar near Yuanshan by resorting to all sorts of analogies, but can anyone guess what the wine list had in #Mandarin for "buttery notes"?
January 26, 2026 at 10:01 AM
A #buttery #wine is one of those terms you overthink when it comes to #translation. My ABC friend was trying to translate the concept at a wine bar near Yuanshan by resorting to all sorts of analogies, but can anyone guess what the wine list had in #Mandarin for "buttery notes"?
Curious why so many children are flooding #Taipei streets during term time? Today is the end of semester. In process of finding out, stumbled upon this article on a teacher protest on Jan 25 against new rules on teacher hiring & firing
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教師25日上街抗議修法 教長：應回學校把小孩教好
全國教師工會總聯合會，不滿教育部修正《高級中等以下學校教師解聘不續聘停聘或資遣辦法》，及相關考核制度。宣布1月25日將動員教師上街抗議。教育部長鄭英耀在立法院被問及是否會親自接下教師團體的陳情書、展現...
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January 20, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Curious why so many children are flooding #Taipei streets during term time? Today is the end of semester. In process of finding out, stumbled upon this article on a teacher protest on Jan 25 against new rules on teacher hiring & firing
tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%95%99%E5...
tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%95%99%E5...
Interested in what it's like to come out as #gay in #Taiwan, check out this thread in #Chinese: www.threads.com/@chiao1990/p...
ChiaoChiao (@chiao1990) on Threads
1990出生明年都要36了，還沒跟家裡出櫃。
目前是沒這樣的打算，我想很多人跟我一樣，離開家鄉鄉，活在城市裡體驗各種圈內的文化，和朋友間相處可以大方出櫃，回到原生家庭就扮演另一個樣子，時間久了也習慣這種轉換模式。現在也從來沒有想過跟家人出櫃有什麼好處。
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真想想聽聽大家出櫃的故事～
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December 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Interested in what it's like to come out as #gay in #Taiwan, check out this thread in #Chinese: www.threads.com/@chiao1990/p...
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Super Mario Chess is checkmating gender norms ♟️♟️
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Super Mario Chess is checkmating gender norms ♟️♟️
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Coming to a 7-11 near you
September 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Coming to a 7-11 near you
#CodeSwitching: co-workers discussing how bad it looks to shove a whole #mooncake into your mouth in #Mandarin, but switched to #Taiwanese to heighten the impact of the punchline & sound naggy, tsin pháinn-khuànn/真歹看.
某某: 月餅一口吃掉，「真歹看」
Somebody: Eating a mooncake all in one, it looks so bad!
某某: 月餅一口吃掉，「真歹看」
Somebody: Eating a mooncake all in one, it looks so bad!
a cartoon monkey is eating a cookie with a yellow star behind it .
ALT: a cartoon monkey is eating a cookie with a yellow star behind it .
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September 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
#CodeSwitching: co-workers discussing how bad it looks to shove a whole #mooncake into your mouth in #Mandarin, but switched to #Taiwanese to heighten the impact of the punchline & sound naggy, tsin pháinn-khuànn/真歹看.
某某: 月餅一口吃掉，「真歹看」
Somebody: Eating a mooncake all in one, it looks so bad!
某某: 月餅一口吃掉，「真歹看」
Somebody: Eating a mooncake all in one, it looks so bad!
Touching little story from 'The Water Asks from Whence it Flows' about a little red bug that doesn't like to walk on black ink imprisoned in an ever shrinking circle by the author; amid heightening panic it suddenly stops & makes its way through the black ink to the white page, defying expectations.
September 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Touching little story from 'The Water Asks from Whence it Flows' about a little red bug that doesn't like to walk on black ink imprisoned in an ever shrinking circle by the author; amid heightening panic it suddenly stops & makes its way through the black ink to the white page, defying expectations.
A very #GenZ example today, with a girl complaining about the lack of political awareness among online female knitting circles in #Taiwan 😂 ( #okboomer )
觸 chù is just a bastardization of the English word “true,” used in much the same way as “True that!” www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
觸 chù is just a bastardization of the English word “true,” used in much the same way as “True that!” www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
September 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A very #GenZ example today, with a girl complaining about the lack of political awareness among online female knitting circles in #Taiwan 😂 ( #okboomer )
觸 chù is just a bastardization of the English word “true,” used in much the same way as “True that!” www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
觸 chù is just a bastardization of the English word “true,” used in much the same way as “True that!” www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
解／好解 jiě/hǎo jiě “The ick,” something that turns you off someone you were initially into. I feel this is kind of an abbreviation for 「解脫」 jiětuō (to be freed of).
Got to love this example: "Do other girls get the ick from men who get tax rebates?" #nopovos www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
Got to love this example: "Do other girls get the ick from men who get tax rebates?" #nopovos www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
September 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
解／好解 jiě/hǎo jiě “The ick,” something that turns you off someone you were initially into. I feel this is kind of an abbreviation for 「解脫」 jiětuō (to be freed of).
Got to love this example: "Do other girls get the ick from men who get tax rebates?" #nopovos www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
Got to love this example: "Do other girls get the ick from men who get tax rebates?" #nopovos www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
#GenZ slang from #Taiwan found in the wild:
暈爛 yūnlàn you like something so much you can't stop, even if overexposure makes you so dizzy you feel ill.
“I can’t get enough of guys with single eyelids and dark-framed glasses.”
More here: www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
暈爛 yūnlàn you like something so much you can't stop, even if overexposure makes you so dizzy you feel ill.
“I can’t get enough of guys with single eyelids and dark-framed glasses.”
More here: www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
September 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
#GenZ slang from #Taiwan found in the wild:
暈爛 yūnlàn you like something so much you can't stop, even if overexposure makes you so dizzy you feel ill.
“I can’t get enough of guys with single eyelids and dark-framed glasses.”
More here: www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
暈爛 yūnlàn you like something so much you can't stop, even if overexposure makes you so dizzy you feel ill.
“I can’t get enough of guys with single eyelids and dark-framed glasses.”
More here: www.translatingtaiwan.com/2025/09/09/g...
Jian Zhen 'The Water Asks from Whence it Flows'
簡媜《水問》
簡媜《水問》
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Jian Zhen 'The Water Asks from Whence it Flows'
簡媜《水問》
簡媜《水問》
An extract from Jian Zhen's 'The Water Asks from Whence it Flows'
#簡媜 的《#水問》一小段
#Taiwan #TaiwanLiterature
#簡媜 的《#水問》一小段
#Taiwan #TaiwanLiterature
August 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
An extract from Jian Zhen's 'The Water Asks from Whence it Flows'
#簡媜 的《#水問》一小段
#Taiwan #TaiwanLiterature
#簡媜 的《#水問》一小段
#Taiwan #TaiwanLiterature
Slightly depressing passage from Jian Zhen's "The Water Asks from Whence it Flows" (簡媜的《水問》), but it really gives a flavour of her fantastic use of imagery. translatingtaiwan.com/2025/05/29/a... #Taiwan #TaiwanLiterature #台文 #translation
May 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Slightly depressing passage from Jian Zhen's "The Water Asks from Whence it Flows" (簡媜的《水問》), but it really gives a flavour of her fantastic use of imagery. translatingtaiwan.com/2025/05/29/a... #Taiwan #TaiwanLiterature #台文 #translation
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Odd that this sticker, stuck on a YouBike by Daan Forest Park, calling on "the people of Taiwan" to hand in their recall letters (to recall allegedly pro-PRC KMT legislators) is written in simplified Chinese. Is this reverse psychology? I wonder who is responsible for them.
#Taiwan
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April 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Odd that this sticker, stuck on a YouBike by Daan Forest Park, calling on "the people of Taiwan" to hand in their recall letters (to recall allegedly pro-PRC KMT legislators) is written in simplified Chinese. Is this reverse psychology? I wonder who is responsible for them.
#Taiwan
#Taiwan