Re: USAGE: The name "Chiang Kai-shek"

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Douglas Koller, Latin & French wrote:
[snip]
> Well, I won't claim to know the *real* answer. I, too assumed it was
> Taiwanese, since that's where he and the "nationalist running dogs"
> settled down.
[snip]

And later when Japan invaded SE Asia, local defectors to the Japanese side
were called, in Hokkien/Taiwanese, _jipuna tsaokao_ "Japanese lapdogs" or
"Japanese running dogs". Ah, the irony. :-)


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