mauvecloud.livejournal.com ([identity profile] mauvecloud.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] flemmings 2007-11-06 05:37 am (UTC)

Aside from one pointed by rasetsunyo, there is five = go. In fact, just lookit 'em numbers:
yi ji sa see go lak cheet pek cow chap

Now recite the nihon-go numbers.... (use shi for 4, shici for 7)

I wonder if this is one of the factors contributing to the somewhat cordial Taiwan-Japan relationship (despite the WWII thing and the fact that Japan was a former master even before that).

(On an unrelated note, funny, former president and sometime cosplayer Lee Teng-hui berated Taiwan in nihon-go somewhere in Japan a few months ago. WHat a guy!)

The Minnan version spoken in Taiwan is related to the so-called Hokkien (a misnomer, hopeless case, but I will wank elsewhere) spoken hereabouts.

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