|Ze and Zir|
今年受邀參與韓國 Asia Culture Center 的展覽《Solidarity as Spore》,主題為各種形式的愛(Love: in all its forms and inclusivity) 。2019年,台灣成為亞洲第一個同性婚姻合法化的國家,同一年,Ze 與 Zir 在 2019 年正式收錄於牛津英語辭典,將特指單一性別的 He or she 取代成中性的代名詞。作品也類比成華文的「也」,取下「他」或者「她」的性別部首符號,作為這次創作的核心理念。
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二元社會性別是所有性別問題的根源,當人們選擇成為伴侶、選擇衣著、選擇以一種特定形象生活時,捨棄掉性別的標籤就可以超脫目前所有的問題,我們不需要透過刻板印象來建立自我價值,自己可以隨意建立個人識別象徵而不需要參考模範,滿足任何有限的想像空間。
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作品呈現三幅動態視覺系列稿,同時在垂直並排的三面螢幕重複播放,它們各自擁有不同的主題。打破性別刻板印象,沒有男孩應該要做什麼,女孩應該要做什麼,呈現更自由的性別氣質與性向。女人不用一定要穿高跟鞋,男人也可以喜歡化妝。
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最後,一個彩色的玻璃球穿梭在各個畫面中,打破界線劃破三個螢幕的彩色玻璃球,劃破時間與空間。
|Sydney Sie / Zen Yun Zon,
|Ze and Zir, 2020. Three-channel
|video, color, silent, 2 min.
|Commissioned by Asia Culture
|Center; courtesy of the artist.
|Special Thanks: 親愛的 Aaron Nieh (✾♛‿♛) 聶永真 Aaron Nieh / Elise Chen
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If there were no genders, it should not cause any troubles to say “ze has loved cars since childhood”, “ze dreams to become a ballet dancer”, or “ze loves zir deeply and wants to spend zir life with zir”.
Gender binary is the source of all gender troubles. If people could choose to become partners, how to dress and how to present themselves in life without gender labels, then we no longer need to establish self-value by conforming to gender stereotypes. An individual could build a personal image freely without referring to gender roles and instead according to their unlimited imagination.
Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in 2019. In the same year, the Oxford English Dictionary update included gender-neutral third-person pronouns Ze and Zir. With a similar spirit, we experiment with removing the radicals of Chinese characters “他(he)”/“她(she)”, reinventing the character “也” as the potential gender-neutral pronoun and using it as the core concept of this creative project.
The work consists of three moving posters, which will be displayed in loop on three aligned, vertical screens, each with a different theme. We incorporate elements of gender stereotypes in these images while seeking to break the traditional gender framework through a visual dynamic, as well as to discover more freedom in gender expression. There is no “should”; women don’t need to wear heels and men can enjoy putting on makeup.
Lastly, a colorful glass ball travels through the images on the screens, metaphorically crossing the boundaries of time and space.
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● Solidarity as Spore
● Dates: May 14–October 25, 2020 (opening May 13)
● Venue: Asia Culture Center (https://new.acc.go.kr), Gwangju, South Korea
● Organized by: Asia Culture Institute (http://aci-k.kr) and Asia Culture Canter
● Artistic director: Kim Sung Won
● Contributing curators: Bojana Piškur, Vali Mahlouji, Museo de la Solidaridad
Salvador Allende, Sulki and Min, Goto Tetsuya, Kim Seong Hee, and Seo Dongjin
● Overarching theme: history of Non-Aligned Movement and its relevance to the
contemporary artistic practice in Asia
Section Participants
● Bae Minkee (Seoul, South Korea)
● Gideon Jamie (Singapore)
● So Hashizume (Tokyo, Japan)
● Saki Ho (Hong Kong, China)
● Hong Eunjoo (Seoul, South Korea)
● Sueh Li (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
● Scarlett Xin Meng (Shanghai, China)
● Rikako Nagashima (Tokyo, Japan)
● Nguyen Giang (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
● Januar Rianto (Jakarta, Indonesia)
● Shin In-ah (Seoul, South Korea)
● Sydney Sie and Zen Yun Zon (Taipei, Taiwan)
● Yui Takada (Tokyo, Japan)
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上禮拜分享說add oil也被正式收錄進牛津字典了!
(但我近期真的還是會選擇不這麼說…)
那麼「加油」到底應該怎麼說呢!
要看情境講對適合的「加油」用法喔!
[情境一]
最基本的「萬用加油」不會錯的是”Good luck! You can do it”!
就是中文裡我們永遠不會說的:祝你好運~你做得到的!(不覺得很不口語嗎?)
但搭配好情境後,其實語意上就是我們所說的,加油!你可以的!
[情境二]
若對方剛好表現很好,比如說我兒子最近剛學會在app上玩益智遊戲,
當他過關了,我會誇獎他說哇,很棒耶,下一關繼續加油喔!
這時很適合”Good job!” “Well done!” “Go!”
[情境三]
那種賽跑、球類比賽正在進行時,場邊的人會胡亂喊一通加油~~~
這時講之前的”Good job”就會超級怪,因為明明比賽就已經在進行中啊對吧!
這時很適合說”Go! Go! Go!” “Come on!” “Keep going!”或是大喊隊伍、人名也可以。
[情境四]
講完一些期勉的話後,最後補一句,大家加油!(像是主管開會完會說的話)
這時很適合說”Keep up the good work!” (持續保持現在的好表現)
[情境五]
某人快放棄時,像是跑步跑到沒力要下跪時,
很適合說”Hang in there!”(加油,撐住呀!) “Don’t give up!” (加油,不要放棄!)
所以「加油」在中文裡有點算是整個統稱,但英文裡就要看情境挑選適合的囉!
同學們,一起繼續加油學英文囉!
Guys, keep up the good work!
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Oxford Dictionaries add 'clicktivism' and 'haterade' as new words for angry times
牛津字典看待川普的新字創造
Donald Trump's linguistic dexterity may be questionable, but the US president's lexicon has had an impact on the English language, which is reflected in the latest additions to oxforddictionaries.com, the online reference guide to current English.
川普的語言技巧可能受人質疑,但這位美國總統的常用語已對英語造成了影響,這在最新增補的牛津線上詞典中可見一斑。牛津線上詞典是流行英語的參考指南。
New coinages that reflect the latest wave of online political activism form a significant section of more than 300 new definitions in the database, which is a sister work to the Oxford English Dictionary.
反映最新一波網路政治活動的新字已在這個資料庫中組成了300多個新條目。牛津線上字典是「牛津英語大詞典」的姐妹版。
Additions including "clicktivism" (a pejorative word for armchair activists on social media), "haterade" (excessive negativity, criticism, or resentment), "otherize" (view or treat – a person or group of people – as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself) and "herd mentality" (the tendency for people's behavior or beliefs to conform to those of the group to which they belong) all emerged during the 2016 battle for the White House, said head of content development Angus Stevenson.
牛津線上字典內容開發負責人安格斯•史蒂文生說,新增詞彙包括"clicktivism"(網路點擊行動主義)、"haterade"(極端仇恨)、"otherize"(異己)和"herd mentality"(羊群心態),它們都曾出現在2016年的白宮選戰中。
"We are getting a convergence of high-level politics and online language in quite a new way," Stevenson said. "We had all the words around Brexit in the last update and we are now starting to see all the words around Trump coming into the dictionary."
史蒂文生說:「我們以新的形式將高級政治和網路用語結合。在上一次更新字典資料庫時,我們吸收了所有與英國脫歐有關的字詞。現在,我們正在將與川普有關的字詞收錄到線上字典中。」
Stevenson said that new terms from Trump, his supporters and opponents were emerging more rapidly than in the past. "We have lots to add all the time. We don't have 'fake news' or 'alternative fact' this time, because they have just started gaining currency, but I am sure they will be in the next update," he added.
史蒂文生說,來自川普及其支持者與反對者的這些新字的出現速度比以往任何時候都快。他還補充說:「我們總是有很多詞語要添加。這一次,我們沒有收錄'fake news'(假消息)及'alternative fact'(另類事實),因為它們剛開始流傳,但我可以確定的是下次更新自典時,它們將被收錄。」
As well as political terms, public conversations about diet, fitness and gender were a strong influence on the words included in the latest update. "Superfruit", a nutrient-rich fruit considered to be especially beneficial for health and wellbeing; HIIT, the acronym for high-intensity interval training; and "third gender", a category of people who do not identify simply as male or female, all made it into the online database.
與政治詞彙一樣,人們關於飲食、健康和性別的交談也對這次的詞彙更新造成了很大的影響。"Superfruit"(超級水果),指的是一種富含營養的水果,對身體健康非常有益;"HIIT",是"high-intensity interval training"(高強度間隔訓練)的首字母縮寫;"third gender"(第三性別),指的是那種無法被簡單判定為男性或女性的群體。這些字詞都被收錄進線上資料庫中。
Social media were the source for many of the new coinages, though most were the kind of compounds that would have language purists clutching their pearls. "Craptacular" (remarkably poor and disappointing), "bronde" (hair dyed both blond and brunette) and "fitspiration" (a person or thing that serves as motivation for someone to sustain or improve health and fitness) all made the cut.
社交媒體是許多新鮮詞彙的來源,儘管其中的大多數詞語都是複合字,這些複合字會讓語言純粹主義者大驚失色。"Craptacular"(意思是特別的窮困和沮喪)、"bronde"(指的是被染成金色和淺黑色的頭髮)以及"fitspiration"(指的是一個人或一種物品,用來作為維持或提升某人健康的動力)都達標了。
Stevenson said the need for brevity on Twitter was not responsible for rising numbers of compound words, but it had widened the pool of those inventing new terms. "People feel much freer to coin their own words these days," he said, advising anyone who wished to make a permanent dent in the English language to make sure that their word sounded attractive. Citing the word "vlog", he said ugly-sounding words tended not to gain very wide currency. He added: "They have to have a euphonious sound."
史蒂文生說,推特對詞彙簡潔性的要求並不是複合字數量增加的原因,但這的確為創造新詞彙的人們拓寬了道路。「如今,人們可以更自由地創造字詞,」他說,他建議那些想要在英語詞彙上留下永久印記的人們務必要確保他們所創造的新字發音好聽。他引用"vlog"這個字,然後說發音很難聽的字一般都不會被大家廣泛使用。他補充說:「這些字詞得有一個悅耳的讀音。」
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