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How does the National Law on the Standard Language and Script regulate the use of network terms?
  • Update:2007-04-19 15:49

In the course of language development, vocabulary is the most active aspect, thus the relationship between regulation and development concentrates on the lexical aspect. The vocabulary is very complicated, when set against the standard of language and script regulations, the regulation of vocabulary is a soft regulation and is under constant change. Judging from the law of language development, simplified, uniform regulation and absolute banning is not appropriate. Especially in recent years, with the popularity of computer network, there appear many network terms; there are various opinions on whether it is a positive development or an abusive pollution of the Chinese language. The network terms should be treated discriminately: for some new vocabulary which is consistent with modern Chinese lexical, grammatical norms, or confirm to the rule of generating new Chinese vocabulary, especially may jargons in IT field, they should get the license to be used, such as: master, homepage, link, download, upload, U disk, memory, source code, explorer, etc.; there are many inconsistent with modern Chinese lexical, grammatical norms, such as replace Chinese words with numbers or symbols, meaning shift, etc., if running rampant, they will obviously affect the communicative function and the healthy development of the Chinese language, therefore, after a large amount of investigations, and fully attending to suggestions from all parties, the legislative institution makes compulsory regulations on the use of network terms in the official documents of governmental institutions, textbook, news report in Section 14 of the“Regulations for Implementation”: Chinese publications, the official documents of governmental institutions should conform to the national standard and regulations on the use of Putonghua, standard Chinese character, Chinese phonetic alphabet, punctuation, number, etc.. The official documents of governmental institutions, textbooks should not use network terms inconsistent with modern Chinese lexical and grammatical norms.”