Netizens have their fingers on new language

May 13, 2011 - PRLog -- BEIJING - Netizens have become the most important grassroots group of language creators of well-known new Chinese words, according to a report released by the State Language Commission on Thursday.

"We live in the era of We-Media, meaning everybody can produce new words and make them well-liked by way of BBS or micro blogs," mentioned Li Yuming, the director of the division of language information administration below the Ministry of Training and vice-president with the commission.

As an example, you'll be out of date in case you tend not to know what yanggao ti, or lamb design, implies, he explained with the launch with the 2010 report Language Predicament in China in Beijing on Thursday.

Utilised to describe some thing overly simplistic, the phrase was coined soon after the poet Che Yangao, who netizens have criticized for his colloquial fashion.

Fashion beggar, or xili ge (Brother Sharp), is also among the 500 popular new phrases in 2010, in accordance for the report.

Brother Sharp was a homeless man who invested his days and nights wandering the streets of Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Individuals started to notice him in March 2010, when a photograph showed his "good seems to be and sharp sense of dressing", regardless of the fact that he received all his clothing from garbage cans.

He was nicknamed Brother Sharp by his fans and dubbed the "most handsome underdog in the century", World wide web customers enthused about "the glint in his eyes" and his "cool dude" perspective while begging for funds from passers-by around the streets of Ningbo.

"These cyber phrases shock, amaze, and amuse us. This can be an age of grassroots enjoyment," said Dai Ran, a 28-year-old Beijinger.

The words may possibly be a weird and haphazard combination of sounds for people that never surf the world wide web, but to a nation with 420 million netizens, they have been meaningful, he mentioned.

The report also mentioned the "frequent use of well-liked cyber language" and "foreign language studies" have brought on a decline in people's Chinese spelling capability.

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