Category Archives: Environment

All-weather

Choân thin-hāu

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Iú-thú ē-tàng ùi nn̄g bān chi̍t chheng kong-chhioh ko-khong choân thin-hāu chip-chêng cheng-chhat jīm-bū.

The U2 can undertake high-altitude reconnaissance missions from 21,000 meters in all weather.

More Taiwanese in the newspaper

Almost every day, I read an article or headline in the Taiwan press that uses Taiwanese.  I came across the following in yesterday’s Lianhebao:

The Taiwanese is the bracketed text, and says that Taiwanese people ài chia̍h pó͘ , which means they like to eat food thought to be especially regenerative or protective of one’s health. In this case, seal fat.

China dust storms

Hong-poe-soa

Interrelated

·-siōng ū koan-hē

Fluorescent Lightbulb (the long kind)

Ji̍t8-kong teng-kóng

Ecosystem

Chū-jiân seng-thài hē-thóng

Chài-seng lêng-kôan

Renewable energy

Polar bear population

Pak-ke̍k-hîm ê sò∙-bo̍k

[Note: do not use Jîn-kháu, which is only for human populations.]

Chôan-kiû lóan-hòa

Global warming

Un-sek hāu-èng khì-thé

Greenhouse gas