Just received a letter from a fifth grader who has read one of the #philosophy encyclopedias I worked on as a writer/editor. She got in touch to tell me that philosophy has made her life more fun, but now she's having difficulty focussing in class, because she only wants to think about philosophy.
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Are there any #Taiwanese / #台語 / #taigi speakers who can help me with some Taiwanese onomatopoeia for a story I'm writing? I need the sounds of:
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Got a notification from LinkedIn that told me “1 person has noticed you.” So that’s something to feel good about… 🤣
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On this occasion, the conversation ended with the driver pulling up outside our house, and then whipping off his shoe to prop his foot up on the taxi window, and show me his severed toe.
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Another day, another Tainan taxi driver confiding in me about his messy divorce. If this keeps up, I’m going to have to start charging for my in-car counselling services.
[#]Taiwan
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This piece on #Taiwanese language / Tâi-gí / #台語 was so much fun to research and write.
https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-22/taiwanese-hokkien-tai-gi
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Okay. Looking for recommendations. What contemporary #Tâigí / #Taiwanese / #台語 language songs should I be listening to? Any genre. I'm trying to build a playlist.
[#]Taiwan
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I'm introducing musical breaks for my online classes with my students at Parami Uni. First up, I'll be subjecting them to Taiwan's palaeontologically-obsessed scamps, The Dinosaur's Skin 恐龍的皮, and their jaunty hit Jurassic Ride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0-Qhn-X_s
[#]Taiwan
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Perhaps, in retrospect, it was not wise to opt for this place solely on the basis that their Facebook page featured an in-house cat, whom they referred to as their 'store manager' or 店長 diànzhǎng.
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It's been a long week, so we went for a massage here in #Tainan. Hannah, my partner, seemed to be having a relaxing, quiet time over on her side of the room. Meanwhile, over on my side of the room, a boisterous auntie was walking up and down my spine, while giving an excitable lecture in Mandarin on the life and habits of the German cockroach.
[#]Taiwan
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Here's a short piece I wrote about yesterday's dance performance here in #Tainan, #Taiwan, and about why #philosophy can maybe learn something from #dance.
https://www.willbuckingham.com/dance-and-philosophy/
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At the dress rehearsal of a contemporary dance festival at the Wansha Performing Arts Centre in #tainan, where I’ve been invited to be philosopher in residence for the evening. It’s all kind of intriguing. I’m currently formulating some vaguely philosophical thoughts to share.
[#]Taiwan
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Just found out there is a temple in Penghu that has an annual festival where they build a giant turtle out of cabbages. And, well… let’s just say that I know what I’ll be doing next February. #taiwan
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Murder, She Wrote is basically a story about a novelist serial killer, who travels around committing terrible murders, and then concocts implausible narratives to frame the innocent.
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Off to Penghu tomorrow. The hotel manager in our LINE chat is gratifyingly invested in our arrival, and is currently sending stickers like this. (Text reads: I’m so excited). #taiwan
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Last night, I dreamed I had a friend called Orson Wales, and every time I talked about them, people corrected me. It was very annoying.
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It's Confucius's birthday, and it's also mine.
I'm very much hoping that one of you lot, once I've gone, will selectively edit and compile a bunch of my sayings, to make me retrospectively sound super-wise.
[#]philosophy #Confucius
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That sweet sensation when you go to prepare tomorrow's class... and then you realise that, in a frenzy of good organisation, you prepared for it already last week.
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It's cool and fun though. It's all free. We hang out in the arts centre, talking about fun things. The people who come are mainly self-proclaimed aunties. They tease me mercilessly. We crack jokes. We pick our way through 文言文 texts and try to make sense of them. We drink tea.
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Off to lead my eighth public #philosophy salon in #Chinese (Mandarin) and English, here in #Tainan, #Taiwan. This is the first time I haven't been pacing anxiously all morning — just the last hour or so.
Which suggests either a) my Mandarin is slowly improving, or else b) I'm just more unabashed about blundering around and making mistakes.
Of course, it may be that a) and b) are, in reality, more or less the same thing.
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