Laowai Chinese recently made a post about numbers in everyday Chinese language in mainland China. I thought I would take the concept and apply it to Taiwan.
Most of these are used when instant messaging friends or sending text messages. A few of them, like 4, 6, and 8 are pretty well integrated
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I found something pretty interesting in a newspaper the other day. It’s a pink sheet with a picture of Buddha and several lottery numbers on it.
Buddhist Lottery sheet
Apparently it comes everyday in the paper (China Post, I think) and is placed there, either by Buddhist monks (unlikely) or probably by the
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