This article is from the public number: Seeing Ideal (ID: ikanlixiang) , author: buckwheat wood, paper illustrations from “1984”, “black mirror”
“Oh, againThe rhythm is up. “
If someone publishes a top 100 internet quotation, it will definitely appear on the first few pages.
Similarly, words like “with rhythm”, “washing the floor”, “reversal of eating melon and the like”, “anti-black”, “pulling on” and “crooked buttocks” are frequently used in various public issues It appears that these vocabulary words born out of the quarrel of the fan community have been abused to an uncomfortable level, and even people who want to speak well often have a sense of powerlessness and lose the idea of participating in discussions.
It is hard to deny that these emerging rice circle phrases are indeed very visual, easy to understand, and easy to use.
You can use it naturally the next second after you understand it, and it has even become the optimal solution when expressing a certain meaning-people can’t help but embezzle them into a popular context, and then These words multiply quickly on a larger scale.
When we face a new technology that looks convenient and easy to use, we always have some hesitation and reservations: you ask, what is the price behind convenience?
But when you encounter a new type of word that hits you, you hug it happily, forgetting to think about it, what is deleted behind the simplicity?
A knife without a sheath but too sharp is dangerous, as is a word that is too easy to blurt out without thinking.
1. The discomfort is the echo hidden in the abbreviation
First of all, why can emerging rice circle languages quickly occupy our speaking space? It’s simple because they are short and powerful enough.
Social networks have made it more and more fragmented for us to ingest information. It has become a certain consensus. At this time, the fragmentation of expression-expressing as much meaning as possible with as few words as possible, has become a certain need.
The word for rice circle, which can be expressed in two or three words, often contains content that needs to be explained in a whole paragraph, and this content is not simply a straightforward narrative, but also comes with its own perspective and guidance.
It sounds like the magic of language, but trust me, you have seen enough magic on the Internet. For example, after you worked hard for a long time, the other party said that you were “washing the ground.”
What does “washing the ground” mean? No matter how scientific and persuasive your explanation is, this is the obscurity you use to deliberately cover up your bigger mistakes. Just because the other party believes that you and him have a different stand, your justification is not worthy of a word in his opinion.
What you explain is not important before you say it.
This may be the reason why the words “wash the ground” seem to be non-malicious, but they sound so harsh: Because it is an abbreviation of a standpoint, it is really harsh and abbreviated. Echo.
As frequently as “washing the floor”, there is also “with rhythm”. If “washing the ground” is mostly used to attack other people’s clarifications, then “paced” applications are more extensive, and everything can be “paced.”
The so-called “rhythm” means that you are intentionally saying something that is emotional, so as to achieve your unspeakable purpose.
However, when you speak, you are expressing opinions and looking for identity. It is inflammatory in itself. If what you say is convincing, is it “incremental” or “has a great wave of rhythm”? It all depends on whether your purpose is “inviting to the good” or “unfriendly”.
From this point of view, neutral speech seems to be non-existent. (if “eating melon and other reversals” is not a neutral speech) As long as it is spoken, it must be pointed, black and white.
The speech that you agree with is +1, nsdd (You are right) , the speech that you do n’t agree with is “wash the ground”, “with Rhythm”.
Look back, how to express it in emerging web terms: I do n’t agree with it, but your point is a certainReason? You will find that similar words have no use case at all and have never been invented.
At the same time, the word that accuses the other party of being neutral is widely used-“crooked butt”, which means that the other party suspects that you are not as neutral as it looks, and the ensuing doubt is: “A and B have both Question, why do you just swear A and not B? “” You can’t see B if you see that you praise A, B is so good, but it is crooked. “
How can you prove that your butt is not crooked in a world that does not believe in neutrality? It seems like an unsolvable problem.
In online scolding battles, saying “washing the ground” and “rhythmic” and “crooked buttocks” to each other is often just the beginning, and there are “anti-black” demands that use actual actions to express opposition.
The content of “anti-hacking” is actually very simple. It is against our underworld and enemies. The methods of opposition include, but are not limited to, clarification, scolding, reporting, real-name reporting to more powerful platforms, and “anti-hacking.” The target audience includes, but is not limited to, celebrities, bloggers, film and television works, schools, and nations. Often, we have come to the step of “anti-triad” for inanimate organizations, and we feel that there is something wrong.
Think carefully. The meaning behind the concept of “anti-black” is that our side is correct, the other side is wrong, and the other person’s insult to us exceeds the bottom line. Therefore, the act of attacking him is “heavenly fall.” justice”.
Of course, there is cyber violence in the Internet world, but in many cases, when we use this word, we have no time to think about it. Is the other party a “spot”? Is the other person acting maliciously? Do I have the right to condemn, organize a large number of people to attack or even report each other?
What is my appeal? To what extent can I attack and how can the other party respond to this matter? Has my “anti-triad” behavior formed a new wave of violence?
Do I really understand what they are talking about when using these words? Am I doing what I want to do, or is there something else that instructs me to do it?
Paul Valery said in “Poetry and Abstract Thinking”: “The result swallowed the cause, the purpose swallowed the means.”
In an era where words are so easy to use, we can say things we didn’t even want to understand without thinking. After the gun in his hand sounded, he suddenly found that the trigger was not under his control.
2. When the language of the rice circle becomes another new word
Speaking of new languages that are too easy to use, one has to think of the “new words” that George Orwell said in “1984”.
This is the official language invented by Oceania to replace English, and has been described as “the only language in the world that will reduce its vocabulary year by year.”
Orwell explained the principle of “new words” in the appendix of the novel: “new words” are based on English, but a large number of vocabulary and grammar have been simplified, replaced or cancelled to weaken people’s expression in different ways and sentences. Opinion ability.
Like Foucault, language has actually become a ruling power. Language defines good and evil, good and bad, expression also suppresses emotions, manipulation also oppresses ideas, and power flows in this process.
The vocabulary of “new words” is only used to correctly express meaning, and excludes all other meanings, and also excludes the possibility of deriving this meaning by indirect methods.
The “new words” are too short and vocabulary are for people to reduce, and then reduce, the time spent thinking before speaking, and finally, speaking instead of thinking.
What new words need most is clear and short words that can be spoken quickly, and the echo that elicits in the mind of the speaker is minimal.
The difference between Xinhua and other languages is that its vocabulary decreases year by year instead of increasing. Every reduction is a gain, because the smaller the choice, the less the temptation of thought. Ultimately, I hope that my throat will make a sound without worrying about brain cells.
The result is that the more closed-minded the person, the more eloquent, the words no longer assume the role of communication, but only output, occupation and confrontation.
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The use of these words brings a mechanically monotonous emphasis on speaking. The purpose is to make the speech as unconscious as possible.
In the application of daily life, it is undoubtedly necessary to think about it before speaking, but when asking for an ethical opinion on something, one should give a correct view like a machine gun ejecting bullets.
He is well-trained, and has new words as his almost foolproof tool, and the composition of words is rough and very unpleasant, which is in line with the spirit of the British Society and even more helpful.
Similarly, maybe those who are proficient in using the “new words” quarrels invented by the rice do n’t realize that the sound they make is not their own, and it is the vocabulary and the abbreviated ideas behind the words. His black-and-white cognition system allows him to say similar things continuously.
The consequence of getting deeper and deeper in this cognitive system is that words take over a person’s ability to think, when he thinks he will still think.
3. The reality is constantly being translated, and the language is thinking for you
Perhaps you will think here that the rice circle language mentioned above has not been applied to rice circle for a long time. Most people who speak on social media have inevitably used it. The consequences are really different. Is that serious?
As a sensible adult, should the words we see, learn, and apply on Weibo and WeChat be limited to the use of cyberspace and set boundaries with real life?
The answer is that when “new words” begin to dissolve everyday language, this trend is difficult to stop.
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You know, the process of understanding those new vocabulary is essentially a translation process: a lot of concepts in Chinese are translated into a short vocabulary in your own brain. After watching countless people on social networks Repeat the mechanical repetition of this vocabulary, gradually understand its usage scenarios, and finally use it in blogging or chatting.
While you are familiar enough with them, these words have formed a practically usable intention in your brain. Compared to the lengthy and illusive concept description of strenuous organization, it is still “new words” near your mouth. More convenient.
So you will see that although we are angry and offended when we are said to be “tempered”, the word runs out of our mouth uncontrollably during daily chats; despite knowing that “three views are not right” It is a very arbitrary judgement. When watching some dramas, I still ca n’t help but blurt out “this three views are too crooked”; although I understand that “washing the ground” is a word with a stand, wait for the word to arrive When I was talking about it, I couldn’t think of any other words to replace it …
Even when these words become the optimal solution when expressing a certain meaning, people can’t help but embezzle it, as if they are doing some kind of “sympathy,” using blindness to describe deafness, and arguing with rice balls. Vocabulary to tell social events, use the “new words” invented to summarize their true feelings.
As Herbert Marcuse said in The One-Way Man:
The translation is Deceptive is precisely because it translates concepts into actual behaviors, hobbies, and tendencies. In this way, it treats the phenomenon of tailoring and organization as reality.
As the use of the language of the rice circle becomes more and more widespread, anyone who wants to participate in the discussion can no longer bypass the threshold of understanding or using these words: more and more people are actively or forced to accept this translation, the more More and more events are translated into black and white, for everyone to understand.
The One-Way Man repeatedly mentioned the ill effects of language simplificationIt is true that Chinese is being eliminated, but it is not just Chinese that is being eliminated.
Language control is achieved by reducing language forms and symbols that reflect reflection, abstraction, development, and contradiction; replacing concepts with images.
This language negates or engulf transcendental terms; it does not explore but merely confirms and imposes truth and error.
Simple language leads to extreme thought, and extreme thought leads to simple language.
People are more enthusiastic about expressing emotions than cognition, and more concerned with position than truth. In the end, all discussions will turn into arguments, and all disputes will turn into party dissension.
Maybe the end of the “new words” is to condemn all people in the same language with homogeneous language.
So, when you blurt out “with rhythm”, “pulling”, “stupid and bad”, “washing the floor”, “spotty”, what exactly do you want to say?
This world is not just black and white, but also includes gray, lightness, light, and shadow. It is worth describing in more detailed language.
Please cherish your ability to use language and text to communicate, cherish your sensitivity to Chinese, cherish your free thinking before sending a sentence, and cherish your complex knowledge of the world.
Before the ability to think is dissipated.
Reference:
《1984》, (English) George Orwell, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2006 edition
“One-Dimensional People: A Study of the Ideology of Developed Industrial Societies”, (United States) Herbert Marcuse, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2006 edition
The Disappearance of the Other: Contemporary Society, Perception, and Communication, (German) Han Bingzhe, CITIC Publishing Group, 2019 Edition
This article is from the public account: look ideal (ID: ikanlixiang) , author: buckwheat wood