Psychedelic Senses :
Why people from Taiwan insist they are speaking Taiwanese, not chinese?
They insist that their language is called 'Taiwanese'. I told them that's not a language, what's mainly spoken there is either mandarin or hokkien, then they all get triggered instead and warned me not to mess around with tw ppl :ROFLMAO: I guess they hate tiongs so much they don't even want their language to be labelled as a chinese language.
They should just say it's their style of mandarin mixed with hokkien dialect, but they kept insisting like as if it is a language created from scratch in their country.
I told that 'Taiwanese' is nationality and not a language and all the angry tw ppl come out with pitch forks liao.
I use this analogy as an example.
Spain and Mexico.
Both speak the same language but with their own style, spanish.
But Mexicans don't go around telling the world you speak the Mexican language right?
That's the case here, TW people insisting they speak 'Taiwanese' when they clearly created the term themselves to disassociate getting grouped up with mainland chinese but ultimately it's still mandarin chinese infused with dialect. Just like us taking the english and speaking it in our own style but we don't say it's a 'language' what.
