⚾💪 #TaiwanWordoftheDay is #抓手腕 — to clasp one's wrist as a sign of team unity. The gesture that was proposed by Stuart Fairchild (史都華·費爾柴德, who is nicknamed 費仔) was adopted by the #Taiwan team at the 2026 World Baseball Classic series as players began tapping their wrists after scoring home runs.
https://english.president.gov.tw/News/7022
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/5207366
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is #鏟子超人 — "superheroes with shovels" aka a record 400k volunteers from across Taiwan who brought their own shovels to clean a town devastated by a catastrophic barrier lake flood in #Hualien. They were honored in the president's speech and #Taipei101 fireworks on 🇹🇼 national day.
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is the #BluebirdMovement #青鳥運動, in which 30,000 people gathered in #Taipei on May 21, 2024 — #Taiwanese who support the legislators opposing the abrupt expansion of legislative power w/o room for deliberation. This ignited the current wave of recalls.
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#TaiwanWordoftheDay is "Monkey Friendship" —the preferred English nickname of New Taipei Mayor (and the KMT's 2024 presidential candidate) Hou Yu-ih. Hou's family name 侯 is a homophone of 猴, Mandarin for monkey, so simian puns abound. "Monkey Friend One" is a creative direct translation of his name.
Moreover, in cities/counties that are governed by KMT politicians like Taipei (Chiang), New Taipei (Hou), and Hualien (Fu), recall activists are being harassed. #TaiwanWordoftheDay is 查水表 (lit "water meter check"), to be harassed by gov employees over the mundane or trivial. bsky.app/profile/bria...
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is GONGO, government-organized NGO: an analysis of 106 UN-participating NGOs from China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan reveals that 59 are connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 46 are led by people with roles in the party. 10 accept over 50% of their funding from #China.
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is #大罷免時代, meaning Generation Total Recall.
To recall an unfit politician is #罷免 in Mandarin, pronounced "BA-mian," hence the website bababa.tw that provides info on ongoing recall petitions across #Taiwan.
Folks can also sign petitions abroad! For more info: linktr.ee/apple004
#TaiwanWordoftheDay: Penghu 1 (澎湖1號), an archaic human who lived in Taiwan, either 70,000 to 10,000 years ago, or 190,000 to 130,000 years ago, when glacier formation lowered sea levels enough to connect Taiwan to mainland Asia. Analysis of the fossil jaw shows that it belonged to a male #Denisovan.
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is organ transplant (器官移植) after local singer TANK announced that he got a new heart and liver in #China, which he is now calling his motherland despite being of Indigenous Amis and Puyuma heritage. His statement posted yesterday on Weibo also referred to #Taiwan as a "province."
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is 儒艮, Mandarin for #dugong, in honor of the first wild dugong sighting in #Taiwan in 88 years. Prior to this new discovery in northeastern Yilan waters, they were believed to be extinct here, for the last dugong was found dead off the Liouciou coast in southern Pingtung in 1986.
#TaiwanWordoftheDay: sui generis, Latin for "of its own kind," used by Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu in describing Taiwan's status.
Although only 12 diplomatic allies remain, Taiwan maintains substantive relations with more than 100 countries, for the nation "exists as an industrial reality."
Source: https://www.cw.com.tw/article/5133448
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is 「人類間質肺炎病毒」— HMPV or hMPV, Human metapneumovirus.
Taiwan's CDC is monitoring an ongoing hMPV outbreak in China, where it is known as「人類偏肺病毒」. The influenza-like symptoms include upper respiratory tract infection and the virus spreads by air, contact, and surface contamination.
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is 香腸豬, aka "sausage pig," a temple offering replacing the traditional 豬公 or "god pig" that was traditionally fattened up for competition in an inhumane way.
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is 雞鴨飯, meaning "chicken and duck rice" and a homophone for 羈押, to be detained for criminal investigations. Folks who don't support Ko Wen-je, a former #Taipei mayor and founder of #Taiwan's third largest political party, are having this dish today. focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...
#TaiwanWordoftheDay: #佛手 or Buddha's hand, a baked good gifted for good fortune in #Taiwan during #GhostMonth. Traditionally also made with glutinous rice flour and steamed.
#TaiwanWordoftheDay #海毛紗
#Seawool is made from grounded #oyster shells combined with yarn spun from recycled plastic bottles. The low-carbon resource does not use water during its production cycle + stores CO2 from the 160,000 yearly tonnes of 🦪 shells discarded in #Taiwan. phys.org/news/2024-08...
