焦点 | 小学生把“栓Q”写进作文冲上热搜，老师血压飙增，网友吵翻了

据澎湃新闻报道，前两天，河南许昌一小学的张老师批改作业时，发现学生在作文中写道“栓Q”，并有一段看不懂的歌词。

"Shuan Q" is a meme which can be used as a popular way to say "I'm speechless" with a matching emoji attached behind. It seems no one would deny the effect of the internet. Some believe it makes language paler, but some see a brighter side as it makes online communication easier between strangers.

Cheng Xudong, an elementary school teacher in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, says that the evolution of internet slang is not all fun and carefree. From his daily observations, the "geographic boundary" between the internet slang and formal language is disappearing, as he has seen many times the designated compositions he has received from the pupils are flooded with abbreviated slangs.

"The sentence 'I am so happy' literally turns to 'I am happy duck' by using the homophone. Whenever a topic revolves around patriotism, some pupils are used to adding YYDS to the word 'motherland', as if they are a natural match and the abbreviated slang could increase momentum."

During last year's two sessions, several representatives put forward proposals such as "regulating online language" and "banning vulgar words", specifically to address this issue, expressing the need to reduce online language misuse and strengthen the protection of Chinese.

However, many experts and scholars in linguistics and communication including Feng Zhiwei, computational linguist, specializing in interdisciplinary research in linguistics and computer science, believe that internet language is a natural product of the dynamic development of language, and it is not necessary to deliberately prohibit it.

The post-80s generation despised the "Martian text" used by those of post-90s back then, a disobedience to grammatical and orthographical norms that results in Chinese characters being replaced with substandard ones or foreign scripts. It is a combination of simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, uncommon characters, Japanese, symbols, phonetics, etc. People who do not know how to use it often need to use an online translator to understand it.