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And each side uses different characters to translate new scientific, medical and English terms, as well as names of important foreign places and people.<\/p>\n<p>Such differences can sometimes cause confusion even at a high level.<\/p>\n<p>On a groundbreaking visit to China in 2005, Taiwan&#8217;s current ruling party Kuomintang&#8217;s then-chairman Lien Chan used the phrase &#8220;yuan jing&#8221;, meaning a positive goal for the future, to express his hopes for good bilateral ties.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese journalists had no idea what he meant because they had never heard of the phrase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new project, the Great Chinese Dictionary, is underway to ease cross-Straits linguistic confusion. BBC News reports on this dictionary, and the linguistic drift that has developed between mainland and Taiwanese Chinese: There are also variations in tones. 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