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I found that sentiment deeply off-putting, and I say that as an American in Taipei right now (which seems thematically similar). The author says 99% of things
by hawkice 8y ago
I found that sentiment deeply off-putting, and I say that as an American in Taipei right now (which seems thematically similar).
The author says 99% of things written are unavailable to him -- and I'm sure it's even more of the spoken word around him. If you subtract out 99% of communication, and all the deep relationships and casual understandings that make a community, yeah, I guess every place starts looking the same.
But boy howdy, that stuff is really valuable to some people, and not just people with nothing else going on in their lives.
- whytaipei 8y agoHow did you end up in Taipei, and how are things there on the tech front?
- hawkice 8y agoTech here seems more hardware oriented than I normally am, but beyond that, I don't know much yet. Taipei helps me study Chinese which is useful because 我的中文不好，但我每天学，住在这里让我沉浸其中。
- patosai 8y agoYou study simplified Chinese in Taipei?
- hawkice 8y agoMy studies go back years, my residence here only weeks. I'm fixing the gaps in my education, but slowly.
- shanghaiaway 8y agoHe meant that he's surprised that you're learning the language using the simplified type system instead of the traditional one which is used in Taiwan.