Tarzan is a made-up character from adventure novels by the American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, beginning in 1912. The story: an English baby is left alone in the African forest after his parents die, and apes raise him. He grows up strong, half-wild, swinging through the trees on vines, and later meets people from his own world — especially a woman called Jane. There have been dozens of films, cartoons, and TV shows, so the character is known almost everywhere, including Taiwan. Because everyone knows the picture, the name is used as an ordinary noun and an image: a man who is very physical and not very polished may be called 'a bit of a Tarzan'; a rope you swing on is 'a Tarzan swing'; and 'Tarzan English' (or 'me Tarzan, you Jane' English) is the well-known phrase for speaking in broken, grammar-free fragments. That last one is a joke about the old films, not the books. Worth saying plainly to students: the Tarzan stories carry the racial attitudes of their time — a white man born to rule the jungle, with African characters as background — and modern readers and reviewers say so openly. You can enjoy the adventure and still know that. Note the spelling: capital T always, because it is a name.