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CfA Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

grammar in "UN for Taiwan"

I am a Taiwaness and have a grammar question about the advertisement our government recently released. The advertisement has a slogan reads “UN for ”.

Some people think it is confusing and has grammar problems.

So I am wondering if people here can understand the slogan or not ?



ps. UN is United Nation for short
  

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Hi CfA I would understand that slogan to mean that the government is in favor membership in the United Nations for Taiwan. Slogans are frequently a shortened form of English -- just as headlines and "bullets" in a document often are. Is "UN" in the slogan really supposed to mean "United Nation" or is it "United Nation s " as I assumed?

— Yankee

  • Hi CfA I would understand that slogan to mean that the government is in favor membership in the United Nations for Taiwan.
  • Slogans are frequently a shortened form of English -- just as headlines and "bullets" in a document often are.
  • Is "UN" in the slogan really supposed to mean "United Nation" or is it "United Nation s " as I assumed?
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Hi CfA

I would understand that slogan to mean that the government is in favor membership in the United Nations for Taiwan.

Slogans are frequently a shortened form of English -- just as headlines and "bullets" in a document often are.

Is "UN" in the slogan really supposed to mean "United Nation" or is it "United Nations" as I assumed?
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Hi Yankee,

You are right, it should be United Nations.
I have no problem understanding the slogan, but I suspect that it is because I am
a Taiwaness and the atmosphere makes it easier for me to understand.
So I am interested at opinions from forigners. Especially when some English
teachers in Taiwan pointed out that the grammar is weird

So, do you think it is sho
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CfAHi Yankee,

You are right, it should be United Nations.
I have no problem understanding the slogan, but I suspect that it is because I am
a Taiwaness and the atmosphere makes it easier for me to understand.
So I am interested at opinions from forigners. Especially when some English
teachers in Taiwan pointed out that the grammar is weird
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Yankee "(We are in favor of) UN (membership) for Taiwan".
Wow! you can see this much!?
Then I think I worried too much.


Go Red Sox ! :-)
Go, Yankees!
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