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The Internet Language As with the development of modern science and technology computers are no longer a mystery to human beings More and more people using computers the Internet has become indispensable to the regular life work and study of many people The Internet exists everywhere In the virtual world constructed by the Internet people form into different habits of expressing their emotions and feelings Therefore one special language the Internet language as well as the network language comes into being The Internet language is the production of the Internet and as its name goes is one language which is applied on the Internet by the netizens When surfing the internet or scanning different kinds of Bulletin Board System BBS either in China or in foreign countries we are easy to find strange confusing words or marks made by people Those words such as C U which means see you exactly belong to the Internet language So popular the Internet language is that largely influences our life We could not help thinking why it is produced and whether it is good to human beings or not To find out the exact reasons why this language emerges first of all we should make it clear in what ways it exists There are four forms of existence Take Chinese Internet language for example First the pronunciations play an important role in the Internet language That of the Internet language and what the words really should be read sound the same or alike Usually we can see it happens in two ways both numbers and Chinese characters When some of the ten Arabic numbers are arranged into another new number it does not refer to the size or bigness of something in the Internet language According to the sound of each number these numbers give voices to all kinds of meanings 88 which sounds like bye bye is used to say good bye while the pronunciation of 9494 is the same as the Chinese characters jiushijiushi 就是就是 showing the agreement on one s opinions Using the numbers to take place of sound like Chinese characters it saves efforts to type After all who would like to type I love you forever while you could just use 5201314 instead Besides we could as well use a Chinese phrase or word to replace another Chinese one which has the similar pronunciation Bamboo 斑竹 and webmaster 版主 have the same pronunciation in Chinese banzhu so that people always type bamboo instead of webmaster In the same way people like to call a person a prawn 大虾 but not a swordsman 大侠 to describe that he is skilled at computers involving the feeling of humor Second some Internet phrases or words are based on normal expressions but are more than them The Internet language changes the original meanings and develops into other meanings For example guanshui 灌水 is the action of pouring water into a container in the first place However on the Internet people use this phrase to state the action of cautiously writing and expressing their opinions which are often nonsense in chat rooms or BBS Also the Internet language defines upstairs and downstairs a message that is answered closely before you or after you in BBS Third the Internet language used some of the punctuations Arabic numbers and English letters to recompose different images in order to express emotions and feelings through them These images look vividly like faces of mankind For instance there are a series of smiling faces D describes the action of laugh widely with mouth open is just a smile 8 is the way that a person who wears glasses smiles 1 D shows that people laugh happily Similarly from the image we can see the sadness The last common form of the Internet language is the abbreviation of English and Chinese phrases These phrases are frequently used by people in regular life such as by the way just a moment and so on Then on the Internet by the way is abbreviated to BTW just a moment to JAM which is actually not correct in English As the English phrases based on pinyin Chinese phrased is used in their short form too like GG is equal to gege 哥哥 Having recognized these four common forms of the Internet language it is much easier for us to understand the reasons why this language comes into being In general three elements all together contribute to it Most importantly the Internet language is created to meet the need of improving typing speed As we know the cost of surfing the Internet is basically measured by time If one person types in a higher speed it will save much more time for him That means the faster your speed is the less money you will spend The Internet language is the result of changing and reforming numbers punctuations letters and English or Chinese words It becomes faster and more convenient for people to type in when they have a general knowledge of this language When under the same typing task obviously the Internet language will help you save time and even money The second reason is due to the use of Quanpin Input Method System in computers Nowadays most people are always used to using Quanpin Input Method instead of Five Strop Input Method when playing computers While in Quanpin Input Method many Chinese words or phrases are not arranged in the order of frequency of utilization Then those web users who are not patient do not want to bother themselves to choose the right words and directly use the leading homophones in place Gradually the homophones makes up into a new language Just as the example I have mentioned above when you type the full pinyin banzhu the first Chinese phrase coming out through Quanpin Input Method is bamboo 斑竹 After netizens use bamboo again and again it spontaneously takes place of webmaster 版主 In addition the Internet language is partly resulting from the philosophy of netizens The main users of the Internet language lie in the young university students high school students and computer technicians They are all well educated curious about new things and creative The Internet language is just exactly to their needs This language not only represents high efficiency but also is full of the trend and willingness towards learning breaking rules changing and progressing Besides using unusual individual phrases and words helps to catch others attention Thus it easily becomes popular among young people Though called the Internet language in fact it is used not only on the Internet In real life people are yet accustomed to communicating with each other using the new language Just several days before my friend found that I often spoke out the word jiong 囧 which refers to the expression of feeling sad or frustrated when going out with me Yet checking the messages sent between two young men we will simply discover the wide use of the Internet language Our life work and study are filled up with the Internet language and are greatly influenced by it In some degree it indeed enriches our life The Internet language as the crosstalk and the witty skits is the reflection of the charm of language Many novels or articles which contain a lot of Internet slang read refreshing and astounding If the slang is changed into formal expressions it will reduce the readability The Internet language can make communication more visualized and interesting People are able to understand each other s feelings and emotions through the funny face images built by the Internet However every coin has two sides Though the Internet language has brought positive impacts to us we should not ignore its negative effects First of all the Internet language is a great challenge to Chinese teaching Our traditional Chinese culture has a long history about five thousand years It has its own grammar and all kinds of rules While the Internet language has largely converted the original Chinese language which turns out to be not normative at all in grammar to a great extent As the main population using the Internet language includes students who are the most likely to be effected by this language Because they are curious about new things yet in the best state of learning new things they may unconsciously apply whatever they have learnt into studies We are not overreacting the reality proves our worry With more attention paid to the Internet words students have become less aware of our own traditional Chinese language bringing difficulties to Chinese teaching During recent years we have found a great number of Internet slang written in students compositions The slang not ever in accordance with Chinese grammar or even the idea the students want to explain often make teachers confused and the compositions wired However we do not mean that the Internet language is forbidden It could be used but with much care Second the Internet language widens the generation gap between children and their parents The young generations like to speak the Internet language while the parents are not familiar with Internet and seldom have ways to get the knowledge of the Internet language When talking with children the parents are not able to catch what they mean which may result in the less communication between children and parents What s worse it can also lead to the parents virulent hostility towards the Internet and cause the reaction that the parents prevent the children from playing computers surfing the Internet or using the Internet language any more In that case the curiosity of the children is not satisfied and the freedom is limited as well arousing their ill feeling to their parents Thus the Internet language makes the unstable relationship of the two generations much worse The network language has both advantages and disadvantages Then how should we deal with it The Internet language is the corollary of the development of our society As the society progresses there are surely new words added into our language We can not simply judge whether it is right or wrong to use the network language This new language is a symbol of our developing culture The wide use of those new strange words is not to be afraid of at all On the contrary