"The aboriginal languages have a different structure from that of Chinese. When I first read Tobas 'pieces, I thought the sentences were too long and the diction wasn't quite right and tried to rewrite them," says Wu Chin-fa, a senior columnist at The Commons Daily who edited the Taiwan Aborigine Book series.
「包括我自己，在初收到拓拔斯文章時，因為九族語法和中文不同，往往會覺得長句太多，詞句不順，便動起手來改寫」，編輯台灣山地叢書的民眾日報主筆吳錦發坦承。