1. Benefits of network language
(1) Innovation. Network language is a dynamic language variety with infinite innovation, which has brought a strong shock wave to modern Chinese. Some people call it "the third language revolution".
First of all, it is manifested in the innovation of content. New words keep appearing on the internet, such as "e-love" (completely different from "infatuation"), rookie, pig, net worm, hacker and so on. In addition to these newly coined words, many original words in modern Chinese have been given new meanings. They just borrowed the original word form, but the meaning is completely different, new wine in old bottles. For example, familiar words such as "dinosaur" and "frog" are derogatory terms in online language. The former refers to ugly women, while the latter refers to ugly men. Secondly, it is manifested in the innovation of form. For example, there are many "one word" on the Internet: "control", "pro", "thunder", "house" and "flash".
(2) simplicity. Although the network language is simple, its meaning is obvious and easy to understand. For example, the word "soy sauce" means "it's none of my business, no comment". It turns out that people say that "children can soy sauce" is used to indicate that they are not young, but in 2008, "soy sauce" has nothing to do with age. After the "Yanzhaomen" incident, a reporter interviewed a Guangzhou citizen, and the citizen's unintentional sentence "It's none of my business, I'm here to make soy sauce" immediately became a hot word on the Internet. Later, when people want to express that they don't know something, don't want to talk about something, or have nothing to do with something, they all use "soy sauce" instead, which is simple and clear. "Playing soy sauce" is also an attitude, that is, you don't talk about topics that have nothing to do with yourself online, and you don't understand anything.
(3) visualization. Netizens dig out some rare words in the dictionary and give them new meanings to express their ideas vividly. For example, in the interpretation of Kangxi Dictionary, the original meaning refers to the glamorous "Jiong". But the new meaning of the word "embarrassed" on the Internet is: sad, helpless or extremely embarrassed mood. They regard the word "embarrassed" as an adult's face, so "eight" means that the eyebrows droop because of sadness or depression, and "mouth" is a tongue-tied mouth. When a person says "I am embarrassed", it is conceivable that his expression is exactly the same as "embarrassed". The word "embarrassed" is pronounced exactly the same as "embarrassed". Almost as popular as the word "embarrassed" on the Internet, there is also the word "embarrassed". Because this word is composed of the word "stupid", which is eye-catching and funny, it is described by network language that people are not only stupid, but also "very stupid", which is commonly known as "extremely stupid".
(4) humor. The humor of online language attracts people to actively use and spread online language. Netizens deconstruct the traditional language through post-modern means such as banter, parody and irony, which makes the network language full of vitality. They carefully conceive many vivid and interesting online words and expressions to create a relaxed and humorous reading atmosphere. For example, "germ man" and "haplessness" refer to ugly men and ugly women. On the one hand, these two words are homophonic with "handsome men and beautiful women" and used in the opposite sense; On the other hand, "bacteria" and "mildew" can immediately remind people of expired and spoiled food, which has a strong ironic effect and fully embodies the humorous characteristics of online language.
2. Disadvantages of network language
(1) vulgar. Some network words in network language are vulgar and frivolous. Things like "WBD (asshole), TMD (fuck), JR (bitch), NQS (go to hell), SJB (psycho), protein (idiot plus idiot plus neurotic), 1487 (you are an idiot)" can be seen everywhere. Teenagers are in the stage of receiving education. If they use such online vocabulary for a long time, they will lose their language and morality.
(2) randomness. In order to be original, netizens ignored the choice of correct fonts, and even deliberately used typos, such as writing "de" and "di" as "supervisor", "dear" as "patient" and "whether" as "wood". Some online languages are also quite arbitrary in syntax, and there are many arbitrary inversion sentences. For example, "the day he was depressed" is to put the adverbial of time that should have been put in front; "Be happy with me today" is the postposition of the subject; The adverbial post-structure composed of "... the first" and "... all" is widely used on the Internet. In the news of Sina website, there is a headline similar to "Give a reason first". The randomness of network language will confuse teenagers' correct understanding of standardized Chinese.
(3) transience. Some online words, perhaps a few years ago, were also included in the annual online language rankings, but after only three or five years, few people mentioned them again. And some words are just abbreviations or abbreviations of some events, for example, hide-and-seek, Fan Paopao, Brother Sharp, dragon patting tiger, doing push-ups and so on. Only by understanding those stories can we understand the meaning of these words, and these stories are time-sensitive. After several years, the newly grown-up people no longer know these stories, and of course they don't understand the meaning of these words, and these words can't be passed down.