The Situational Characteristics of Language on the Internet
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Chen Yenling examines the spread of “netspeak”, or as it is sometimes known “Martian” (火星文), [online Martian translator here] and the differences between netspeak on the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. While much of it is dismissed as a sort of nonsensical speech for youth, it seems to have wider use than simply teenagers. The more basic version of this in English would be something like “lol”, though Martian is a fairly more complicated online dialect that might be better compared to l33t.
Talking about the unique internet languages that have appeared in Chinese (looking primarily at Taiwan), ‘u’ for ‘you’ for example. In Chinese, this is related to local dialects but includes symbols (XD=groan) and incorporates other languages (Japanese) as symbols (3166=sanyaoliuliu/sayonara) or (Japanese) characters which resemble Chinese characters, disconnected from their original meaning (in Japanese). Used primarily during chat, on BBS, etc.
Looking at Wikipedia, breaking down the vocabulary into its components (nine terms for location, for example, but only for the Hong Kong region and zero for both Taiwan and Mainland China). These internet languages cannot be separated from specific communities (a specific BBS in Hong Kong, queer community in Taiwan). I wonder about this: Martian, for example, I have always understood to be a product of Taiwan, yet it seems to have a fair number of fluent users on the Mainland. Are these people Taiwanophiles? Would this be an example of the poisoning of young minds by GangTai culture mentioned in the first paper? I guess Wang Shuo would hate the idea of a novel written in Martian (has that been done?) As for the more specific communities, such as a particular BBS or the queer community in Taiwan, how far can you drill down to microcommunities? How different are their flavors of “netspeak”? How different does one have to be to be considered distinct?
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