Question

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Is youth lingo ruining the Chinese language?

Young people often create their own language that goes beyond rigid linguistic rules. This year’s latest slang (俚语) terms add a further simplification: the use of pinyin acronyms (首字母缩略词). “Awsl,” in pinyin, for instance,means “Ah, wo si le” (Oh, I’m gonna die), and is used if something is too cute or adorable to bear. “Pyq” stands for ^“pengyou quan”, the social feed on the popular Chinese social media app WeChat, and “nsdd” stands for “ni shuo de dui” (you’re right).

Teens want to be different from their parents, so it’s natural for them to create and use their own linguistic terms to show that. In doing so, young people are indeed driving linguistic change. They aren’t the only factor influencing language development, but they can indeed transform how future generations communicate.

Critics fear that Chinese internet slang will have the potential to negatively influence broader linguistic trends of Mandarin Chinese, in particular, the gradual taking over of pinyin. As pinyin gets widely used when texting or writing on mobile phone or computer, while less and less people write characters by hand, people gradually forget how to write them. The phenomenon has got a name in China: Character amnesia(健忘症).

（写作内容）

1. 用约30个单词概述上文年轻人使用网络语言的现象；

2. 用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括:谈谈你的看法，用2〜3个理由或论据支撑你的看法。

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1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3. 不必写标题。

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Answer

Possible version one:

Young Internet users are always coming up with new slang to differentiate themselves. But the rapidly developing Internet lingo, some people are concerned that it's ruining the Chinese language.

In my opinion, it's unnecessary for older generations to fear the use of slang is weakening the people's capability to write and remember Chinese characters. For one thing, new terms add variety to a language as they give a group of people a sense of belonging. For another, youth lingo, which is a source of identity for young people, has existed long before the Internet. As a matter of fact, youth lingo has not made the Chinese language disappear but has impacted the language.

To conclude, while language development is unavoidable, Chinese Internet lingo is unlikely to replace the existing use of Mandarin Chinese, but will rather be enriching it by adding another layer.

Possible Version two:

Nowadays, young people often create some new slangs to differentiate themselves. However, with the rapid development of Internet lingo, many critics, especially the seniors, believe that the emergence of such lingo will damage the foundation of Chinese language.

In my opinion, it is not necessary to worry about the new slang that will likely weaken the new generation’s capability of writing or remembering Chinese characters. There are two reasons. Firstly, the purpose of language is to convey ideas and share opinions. Thus, the prevailing youth lingo,as a more concise and efficient way of expression, is in fact an enrichment of modern Chinese language. Secondly, since every era has its own young generation,the youth lingo, can be a new identity for young people,cannot pollute or extinct Chinese language but by contrast, it may become an emblem or living fossil of this specific era.

To conclude, while language development is inevitable, Chinese internet lingo is unlikely to replace the existing use of Mandarin Chinese but will be enriching it by adding a new layer or dimension to it.

【解析】

本文是一篇任务型写作。

本文是一篇任务型写作。共分两个任务：第一个任务用约30个单词概述上文年轻人使用网络语言的现象；第二个任务用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括:谈谈你的看法，用2〜3个理由或论据支撑你的看法。第二部分给出了写作提纲。注意完成第一任务时，语言使用应简练、准确、到位。在第二个任务中，应涵盖题目所列出的三大要点。本文应主要使用一般现在时态。写作过程中注意使用平时学到的短语和句型，注意行文的连贯和逻辑性。