The Communists have their own designs on Taiwan, and few people in Taiwan are anxious to identify with mainland cultural symbols. Clearly there are many fascinating undercurrents beneath the feelings that people have about language in Taiwan. Tai argues that Taiwan's language problem arises from cleavages over national and regime identification rather than over the worth of any given language per se.
他認為，台灣語言發生問題是源於對國家、政權認同的分歧。