Candidates use puns to help voters remember them
Candidates use puns to help voters remember them
2026-10-06
Hoping to find creative ways to promote themselves so that voters remember them, many candidates make campaign slogans with puns on their names. One in Pungtung made a banner that says “so hot,” because it sounds like her name in Taigi. Another in Kaohsiung made a pun referring to mosquito repellant.
In the middle of this political campaign banner is a pink heart with the words “so hot.” It’s surprising for a candidate to market themselves as “hot.” But turns out it’s a pun on the candidate’s name in Taigi.
- Sòo-hâ? So hot. It does sound a little like it.
- Sòo-hâ. Yeah, so hot.
Pan Su-hsia, who’s running for mayor of Pingtung County’s Chaozhou Township, has a name that sounds just like “so hot” when pronounced in Taigi. She said the slogan was her own idea.
Pan Su-hsia
Chaozhou mayor candidate
Our whole family are English teachers, so I thought I should have an English name. It means very enthusiastic. When I was young, I was quite hot. I used to wear sexy clothes.
She’s not the only one to promote herself with a pun. A politician in Kaohsiung made a pun on the word for mosquito repellant, fang wen yi, using the slogan “I am your mosquito repellant” on his large orange-and-yellow banners.
- Mosquito repellant?
- Yeah. And what is the candidate’s name?
- Huang Wen-yi. Oh I get it. That’s funny.
People appreciated the politician’s word play. He said the idea came from a childhood nickname.
Huang Wen-yi
Kaohsiung City Councilor (DPP)
Growing up, people gave me nicknames like “mosquito” or “mosquito spray.” When the product came onto the market, the pun on my name officially became “mosquito repellent.”
Candidates are finding all kinds of creative ways to get voters to remember them ahead of the local elections this November.
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選舉布條"SO HOT"什麼意思? 參選人諧音哏掀話題
2026-10-06
為了讓更多選民認識自己，不少參選人都要想奇招來推銷自己，最近在屏東潮州，就有參選布條上寫"SO HOT"讓大家一頭霧水，不過用台語來念，才驚覺正是參選人"素霞"的諧音，讓網友笑翻，而高雄也有議員使用防蚊液當自己姓名的諧音哏，也引起話題。
選舉看板架設在路邊，上面一顆紅色愛心寫著SO HOT，有民眾看到第一眼一頭霧水，覺得英文SO HOT代表很辣、很性感或很熱的意思，放在選舉中似乎不太正經，但往旁邊一看，參選人就叫素霞，大家立刻就懂了。
-素霞吧? SO HOT喔，應該有啦有點像。
-素霞啦，對啦SO HOT。
原來這位名叫潘素霞的參選人，要角逐屏東潮州鎮長，台語唸起來"素霞"就像SO HOT，正確答案一出，網友真的快笑翻，而素霞本人也大方受訪，說這是自己的發想。
[[屏東縣潮州鎮長參選人 潘素霞]]
“我們全家都是英文老師，我是不是也取一個英文名字。很熱心的意思，我年輕那個時候嘛，大概很辣，我會每天穿得很辣。”
台灣人諧音哏真的沒完沒了，在高雄也有人把日常生活用品防蚊液搬上競選看板，橘黃色的大大看板高掛在建築外，上方寫下"我是你的防蚊液"，民眾乍看之下還有點問號。
-防蚊液?
-對啊然後那個人的名字叫什麼?
-哈黃文益，突然看懂了，很有意思啊
不過只要念一念就會心一笑，民眾直呼這種諧音真的太有創意，而黃文益本尊也回憶起自己防蚊液綽號的來龍去脈。
[[高雄市議員(民) 黃文益]]
“小時候大家都會幫我取綽號，蚊子啦，不然就是蚊子水啦。這個產品問世之後，我的名字諧音才正式正名成為防蚊液。
不論是素霞SO HOT，還是黃文益防蚊液，選戰將至，參選人拚創意，成功吸引話題，也讓自己的名字深深烙印在選民心中。
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