How come they haven’t won it?

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Nobel hô-pêng-chióng èng-kai pan-hoat hō·͘ Tiong-kok ê léng-tō-jîn!
Khí siáu?
Lí khòaⁿ kî-thaⁿ ê tek-chióng-jîn, kan-ta un-un-á kó͘-chhoe , hêng-tōng…
Chí ū Tiong-kok ê léng-tō-jîn siōng jia̍t-kong siōng piàⁿ-sè, liân bú-le̍k mā beh thê chhut lâi piàⁿ hô-pêng thóng-it Tiong-kok…
Chiah piàⁿ-sè, ná ē-sái bô tek chióng?

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The Nobel Peace Prize should be given to the leaders of China!

(Has he gone crazy?)

Look at other Prize-winners…they only gently encouraged people, and took gentle actions…

Only the Chinese leadership has acted with such intensity and effort…they’ll even deploy weaponry to bring about the peaceful unification of China…

With such efforts, how can they not have won the Prize?

Which is more accurate

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Má Eng-kiú sī sîn.

Má Eng-kiú sī mô·.

A-Píⁿ-á tham-u.

Ôan-chôan sī chèng-tī pek-hāi.

Ūi sím-mi̍h lí góa ê khòaⁿ-hoat it-ti̍t giâm-tiōng tùi-li̍p?

Bô hoat-tō·͘. Chi̍t pêng ài khòaⁿ Tâi-ôan-kok ê mûi-thé, chi̍t pêng ài khòaⁿ Tiong-kok mûi-thé…siáⁿ lâng chai-iáⁿ tó chi̍t pêng ê mûi-thé só· kóng khah chèng-khak?

Chì-chió chai-iáⁿ tó chi̍t kok choan-bûn chhut o·-sim-hòe pah?

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Ma Eng-jeou is a god.

Ma Eng-jeou is a demon.

Chen Shui-pian is corrupt.

It’s all political persecution.

We are our respective viewpoints always so opposing?

There’s no way around this. One side prefers to view Taiwanese media, and the other side likes to watch Chinese media…who knows which side’s media is more accurate?

At least we know which country specializes in making dangerous pirated products, right?

What’s so great about weapons?

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Cha̍p-it kok-khèng, khòaⁿ chó•-kok kun-sū tián-sī, chin-chiàⁿ sī ui-bú, chòng-koan…

Hng! Peng-khì ū siáⁿ khòaⁿ-thâu?

Gún khòaⁿ “Chó•-kok” tô•-sat Se-chông, Sin-kiong ê éng-phìⁿ, piáng, piáng! Lâng tó lo̍h khì, hoeh lâu sêng hô…

Jîn-bîn tōa siaⁿ háu, ai ai kiò! Che m̄ chiah ū ui-bú, chòng-koan, kiam pek-chin!

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On the 10-1 (PRC) National Day, looking at the Motherland’s military display, such power, such magnificence…

Hmph! What’s so great about weapons?

We saw the film of the “Motherland” slaughtering people in Tibet and Xinjiang..Pow! Pow! People fall to the ground, there are rivers of blood…

The people scream and cry out! Now that’s what you call power and magnificence, as well as oppression.

Turn a setback into good fortune

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Pat-pat hong-chai, siū siōng-tōa chai-hō ê, chiū sī Má Chóng-thóng…

Pat-pat hong-chai chò lí-iû, Siang-si̍p thêng-chí kok-khèng. Lióng-gān Tiong-kok-lâng tông-khèng cha̍p8-it.

Tiong-kok sóng oaiⁿ-oaiⁿ, “shufu de yaoming” [or, if you prefer, "su-ho̍k8 kah beh sí"]

Hi! Hō-hok siong-í, Má Chóng-thóng in hō tek hok.

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The one who suffered the most (misfortune) because of the August 8 storm disaster is President Ma…

Due to the 8-8 Disaster, the founding of the ROC (October 10, the ROC’s national holiday) won’t be celebrated on Double Ten. (Instead) Chinese on both sides of the Strait will celebrate together on October 1st.

China is overjoyed by this, “[in Mandarin] really comfortable/happy.”

Hee hee! Misfortune and fortune are mutually dependent (or, perhaps, “every cloud has a silver lining.”) President Ma has snatched fortune from the jaws of misfortune…

No need to cry

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Kok-kiōng ê iáu-siū hoat-têng, ok-chit beh sí. Chèng-tì pek hāi A-píⁿ chôan ke…

Tâi-ôan-lâng ài koh khah ióng-kám, phah piàⁿ. Bô su-iàu pi-siong lâu ba̍k-sái.

Tio̍h! Ài ióng-kám phah piàⁿ! M̄-bián lâu ba̍k-sái!

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Those damn KMT-CCP courts are really awful. Politically persecuting Chen Shui-pian’s whole family…

Taiwanese people should be even more brave, work even harder. There’s no need to be sad and cry!

You’re right! We should bravely push on! There’s no need for tears!

So you want to be a judge?

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Lí tōa-hàn beh chò Tiong-hôa Tâi-pak ê hoat-koaⁿ? Che bô kán-tan oh. Tē-it, ài chiok phah piàⁿ tha̍k-chheh, iû-kî Tiong-kok kó͘·-chheh.

Kong-sái-chîⁿ hit lūi – ê?

Tē-jī, chèng-kì bô iàu-kìn, ài gâu thui-lūn/chhui-lūn

Che góa kài gâu…

Tē-saⁿ siōng-kài tiōng-iàu, bē-sái ū sek-bông.

Siáⁿ? Bē-sái sek-bông?

Ài hun-pia̍t chheng-chhó sek-tì.

Âng, chhiⁿ-sek?

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When you grow up you want to be a Chinese Taipei judge? This isn’t easy to do. First of all, you have to study really hard, especially the Chinese classics.

Like the “Gongshiqian” [This is a pun on the Song Dynasty use of 公使錢 (money officials could use in the course of their business). See the note below.]

Secondly, evidence doesn’t matter, and you need to be good at making (unfounded) inferences…

Oh, I’m the best at that…

Thirdly, and most importantly, you can’t be colorblind.

What? No colorblindness?

You need to clearly differentiate colors.

Like red and green?

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I wasn’t sure what 公屎錢 meant until I did some googling and came upon the letter below that was published on the op-ed page of the Liberty Times online edition back in 2007. Basically, it’s a pun on 公使錢, which rhymes with 公屎錢 in Taiwanese, and is an obvious swipe at Ma.

2007/8/16 自由電子報/陳君愷

公使錢不是這樣用的

馬英九特別費案判決書中引用了宋代公使錢與公用錢的例證。

將公使錢與特別費併觀，恐怕係筆者首先提出。當時筆者主要是指陳：特別費類似宋代公使錢或公用錢等名目，係傳統官僚體制的遺存，易造成公用與私用上的認知混淆，亦可能動輒得咎。因而希望台灣在由威權轉型為民主體制的過程中，不要如同皇權時代視官僚為小偷，以各種防弊措施防閒猜忌官僚；而應立足於民主觀念，肯定人的自律能力，重新界定這些首長費的使用規範。這種體制上的變革，自應由行政與立法體系著手。然而這個舉例，如今卻為司法體系濫用來為馬英九脫罪，真是令人感到啼笑皆非！

首先，宋代公使錢可以放進私人口袋，恐怕只是「實然」，不是「應然」。這也就是說：在理論上不能私入，但因為實際上大家都這麼做，也就約定俗成，甚至變為默許。筆者研究宋史，又在大學裡開授宋史課程，推測承審法官們可能沒搞懂「例」字的意思。在宋代法制史上，「例」至少有兩種涵義：一是「法例」（不成文的法規），這是必須「著為例」（登錄為行政慣例）的；一是「俗例」（不成文的陋規）。在公使錢或公用錢的場合，「例」字往往是「陋規」的意思。所謂可以「例入」，就是習慣上大家都貪污，卻心照不宣。至於一些不願同流合污的人，若非一介不取，就是把錢用在公務上。因此，把應該用於饋贈、送往迎來的公使錢放到口袋裡，原本就應該是貪污，但因為管也管不了，因而只好遷就現實，別立公用錢名目；但到了後來，連公用錢也變成可以「例入」！由此可見其貪污的嚴重性。因此，判決書中提及宋人認知公使錢、公用錢亦有所混淆，就因為那根本是一筆爛帳！

事實上，判決書中所引述學者林天蔚視公使錢為「首長特別津貼」、公用錢為「官署特別辦公費」的說法，若就學術的角度觀之，實仍未盡妥適。由於其論著並未細緻處理該制度的演變，亦未能解釋「公使庫」中的錢何以不稱為「公使錢」、而要叫做「公用錢」的疑點。因此，該說法只代表某一種學術觀點，並非定論，自不宜引入判決書中。（作者為輔仁大學歷史學系教授）

All the free time in the world

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Má siōng, góa piàn êng-bîn.

Ū-kàu pe̍h8-chha̍t8-kaú!

Lí sím-mi̍h8 êng-bîn?

Chi̍t8 nî gōa í-lâi, góa lóng bô thâu-lō͘·. Ta̍k8-ji̍t8 êng sian-sian, êng kàu lia̍h sat-bú sio kā…

Êng-bîn…

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Since Ma took office, I’ve become an “eng-bin.” [êng-bîn sounds like 榮民 , meaning a retired soldier.]

What a load of crap! [Literally: what a lying dog!] How are you a retired soldier?

Over the past year or more, I haven’t had a job. I’ve got nothing to do all day. [Literally: "So much free time we sit around picking lice off each other and biting them"…which is a good way to kill lice, by the way.]

Oh, êng-bîn. [i.e. someone with nothing but free time.]

Extra cartoon

Sorry, forgot to upload this one a few weeks ago…

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Keng-chè-pō͘· úi-thok mó͘·-mó͘· / bó͘·-bó͘· gián-kiù-só͘· chò ê E chèng-chhek phêng-kó͘· kí chhut, kai chèng-chhek ē tì-sú Tâi-ôan ê lô-kang tōa chhi-chhám, sit-gia̍p8 lú giâm-tiōng…

Che tùi kùi chip-chèng-tóng èng-kai iú-só͘· khé-hoat ba?

Tong-jiân ū khé-hoat…

Tē-it, í-āu kiò khah koai ê ki-kò͘· chò phêng-kó͘·. Tē-jī, chhi-chhám ê pō͘·-hūn mài kong-pò…

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As a certain research institute that the Ministry of Economic Affairs had look at its E Policy [I assume they mean ECFA, and not the IT-related 'E'] pointed out, this policy will make Taiwan’s workers miserable, unemployment will get worse (and worse)…

This has certainly given some ideas to your ruling party, right?

Of course it’s given us ideas…

Number one, from now on we’ll have more obedient organizations do evaluations. Number two, we won’t publicize the miserable bits…

The Dalai Lama

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Hng! Ta̍t-lāi lâi Tâi-ôan chhòng siáⁿ óaⁿ-ko? Kin-pún chiū sī chèng-tī hê-siūⁿ!

Tio̍h! Kin-pún chiū sī chèng-tī hê-siūⁿ!

Kôing-tiāu chû-pi, ài-sim, khoan-iông, gôan-liōng, kài-tî tham-io̍k òan-hīn téng-téng, lóng ē tōa-tōa éng-hióng chèng-tī chú-tiuⁿ kap hêng-tōng.

Tiōng-tiám sī … lí ài Ta̍t-lāi-sek ê chèng-tī? Á-sī Tiong-kiōng-sek ê chèng-tī?

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Hmph! What the heck did the Dalai Lama come to Taiwan for? Basically, he’s a political monk!

Right! Basically he is a political monk.

Emphasizing charity, love, tolerance, forgiveness, the rooting out of corruption and hatred, et cetera, can all greatly influence political demands and activities.

The point is…
do you prefer Dalai Lama-style politics? Or PRC-style politics?

It’s not fair

 

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Bô kong-pîⁿ ! Bô kong-pîⁿ! 82 pha ê lâng kiò Má Chóng-thóng lo̍h tâi!

Má Chóng-thóng si̍t-chāi ū-kàu soe! Tú tio̍h pah nî lân tit it-kiàn ê tōa hong-hō͘.

Mā sī pah nî lân tit it-kiàn ê ki-hōe beh hō͘ Má Chóng-thóng tián-hiān I kiù-chai tī-kok ê tōa pún-sū ah…

Nā bô, pah nî sēng-sè ē ka-kī cháu chhut lâi ma?

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It’s not fair! It’s not fair! 82 percent of people are calling for President Ma to step down!

President Ma is so unlucky! (He) ran into a once-in-a-lifetime storm! [Literally: “a big storm it’d be hard to catch sight of in a hundred years”]

It’s also a once-in-a-lifetime chance for President Ma to demonstrate his great abilities to relieve the disaster and govern the nation…

[Mockingly] If not, (how) will the once-in-a-lifetime golden age be ushered in? [Literally: “(will the) one hundred years flourishing age be able to walk out by itself?”]