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...Today, school curriculums that had focused on Chinese history and geography center on Taiwan. Learning a local dialect such as Taiwanese, Hakka or aborigine - languages the KMT once banned in the classrooms - is now compulsory in elementary school. Today's youth and pop artists have also sparked a movement that embraces local culture. An ethnic slur, taike - which Taiwan's mainlanders used decades ago to describe the uncultured locals they found on the island - has become something cool. Taike now means a "Taiwanese character" (as in "that guy's a real character"). In his hit rap song I Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strait Talker | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...derelict factories. Just as dismal, he is told, are the region's residents: beer-guzzling, perpetually-unemployed louts who never saw anything deep-fried they didn't love; who pack large, allegedly inbred families into dilapidated brick row houses; and whose "Ch'timi" patois - rooted the ancient French Picard dialect - is incomprehensible to outsiders. Little wonder Abrams decides to spare his wife the horror of the north by moving up alone - arriving in mid-summer in a polar jacket and after-ski boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Movie Finds Success in Unlikely Quarter | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...techniques of the candidates are being copied. In Italy, Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, a candidate for the position of Prime Minister, has taken to lifting lines from Obama, including repeated usage of "Yes we can" in three languages: English, Italian ("Sì, possiamo") and the Italian capital's local dialect ("Se po' ffa'"). In Hong Kong, prodemocracy parties are studying U.S. campaign techniques, in particular Obama's grass-roots youth organizing. "Everyone wants to study how he delivers his message," says Tanya Chan, a District Council representative from the Civic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling the Spirit | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...dispiace! Uhh sono Gilberti…mia famiglia, ça va?” my dad managed in his cacophonous dialect of English, French, and Italian...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All Roads Lead to Iacurso | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...dressing labels and Vatican documents to military mottoes and movie lines, as the University’s scholars of the ancient world show a surprising impact on our own.In Schafer’s case, a department administrator found him in the graduate student lounge and told him that the dialect coach for “The Good Shepherd” was looking for someone to translate a passage from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.”In the movie, a beautiful German translator asks Matt Damon’s character if he’s read...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama and Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Ovid Meets Hollywood | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

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