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Has the network language enriched our language? Or polluted our language?

It's just the right time to debate this issue and take out my manuscript.

As we all know, with the popularity of the Internet, network language plays an increasingly important role in our daily life, and the debate about the quality of network language is becoming more and more fierce. I'm glad to state our views here today-the network language has enriched our language.

First, in online communication, online language is more telepresence, vivid and expressive, and can express the meaning of language users quickly and efficiently, so as to better play the role of language as a tool. Network language is easy to communicate on the network. It can express information more vividly with meaningful numbers and vivid expressions, symbols, letters and pictures. For example, embarrassment and helplessness can be expressed by a simple word "embarrassment", and a word can be put when you are happy:). It can be described as "playing soy sauce" to express your career. I believe that when you see similar language in online chat, you will naturally imagine each other's expressions. Aren't these languages more interesting and vivid than traditional languages? Doesn't this greatly increase the expressive force of language and communicate better? So we say it enriches our language.

Second, because of the development of the times, many new things on the internet are difficult to express in the existing language, and the emergence of network language makes up for this vacancy. The formation of language is a process of continuous development. For example, new words such as "supermarket, karaoke" were added during the reform and opening up. In today's ever-changing information age, traditional vocabulary is not enough to express many new things. But netizens soon created new words such as blog, grassroots and hacker. If this is pollution, how can the original so-called clean language express these new concepts? Network language can make up for the shortcomings of traditional use, make our language more widely used and give full play to the effectiveness of its social tools. Isn't this rich?

Whether network language enriches or pollutes our language is not only an analysis of language evolution, but also a reflection of our attitude towards language evolution. In fact, language is alive. A "living" language must be constantly stimulated by new things so as not to become a stagnant pool. With the advent of the network era, the network language derived from it is vivid, efficient, trendy and innovative, which makes our Chinese expression more abundant and applicable. It enriches our language from two aspects: quality and quantity.