The word choice was in no way intended to convey support for any political view. The fact that this conventional designation bothers some speakers of other dialects or languages in Taiwan was duly noted in the sidebar "What is 'Taiwanese' Language?"
狹義地將「台灣話」定義為「閩南語」的慣例，的確忽視了台灣社會多語並存的現象，這在同期「什麼是台灣話」一文中，我們也有適切的剖析。