When politicians meet and tempers rise on account of differing views on an issue, "if someone says something cheeky in Taiwanese, everyone laughs, and often the conflict is defused," concludes Legislator Li Ching-hsiung from his many years 'experience of arguments in the Legislative Yuan.
近年來政治開放，加上本土意識覺醒，大家以「說方言」為流行，政治人物聚在一起，在政治議題上意見不和而火氣升高時，「如果有人用閩南語來一句俏皮話，大家會心一笑，往往會化爭端於無形。」這是立法委員李慶雄積多年在立法院吵架的經驗得到的結論。