Thanks to technology. Nowadays, we can literally go out carrying just one smartphone with Google Maps without getting lost. Besides the direction, navigation, recent motorway function, or upcoming speed camera feature. The maps get you everywhere you want to go, even your heart-broken past.
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In this app, one of the most useful functions is street view images. Since these pictures aren’t be updated simultaneously, just by tapping the button, you can see the workers on the street are repairing the traffic light which has already been completed a few months ago.
It is the most used word in Taiwan. When you were walking through the people to find your seat in the theatre, making a public speech but accidentally made some minor mistakes or asking the price of a bubble tea, you can say ‘buhaoyisi’ in all of these situations.
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So, what does it mean? Well, it depends. It’s kind of like sorry or excuse me in the western world but still, far limit the expression to the notion of it.
