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What is the widest used language all over the world? Of course it is English.

Rencently, there is a news, that in order to make good preparation of the World Expo, shanghai holds a activity of clearing out the Chinglish advertising slogans to avoid being laughed by foreigners. On the other hand, the Guardian in UK publics some articles to protect Chinglish from disappearing, and feels a pity that the Chinglish would be extinct.
Should Chinglish be defended or liquidated? When we have the self-confidence to not feel awkward about Chinglish, we should also endow Chinglish with genuine culture and creative vitality.

Chinglish is regarded as the short form for Chinese English. It is the combination of Chinese grammar and English words. It is greatly welcomed by people while regarded as unstandard by official.

In 2007, a Germany youth named Oliver Lutz Radtke published a book Chinglish- Found in Translation. It is a collection about Chinglish which he saw on the Chinese streets. Besides, he has also established a personal blog to show the pictures taken in public places about the Chinglish slogans. His blog is called Chinglish museum by people for fun.

It is said that the influence of Chinglish becomes greater and greater in the world. As is estimated, English words increased by twenty thousand in 2005. 20% of them are related with Chinglish.

In fact, there are two kinds of Chinglish. One is that words translated directly by translation software, which would lead to misunderstanding while communicate with it. Strictly speaking, this is not the real Chinglish. The other is one translated according to Chinese culture. Take “People Mountain People Sea” as an example, foreigners can infer from the phrase that the words mountain and sea are used to express the idea of large quantity. So they can understand that he phrase means number of people. You can see, real Chinglish will not course any misunderstanding, but will be helpful to transmit Chinese culture.

In a word, we should respect the Standard English. But chinglish, as a cultural phenomenon, should be protected; but it should be the real Chinglish of course.

Have you ever seen the character囧? You may be pride to say “yes”, but unfortunately, it has already been out of date. Recently, another uncommon word 烎 become the newest and hottest character on line.

At the first glance, you may not know it. It is an old Chinese character, read as “yin” and means “bright, and sunny”. But the newly popularly word on line is not yet the original meaning. It means impassioned, with heart afire, Valiant or arbitrary.

It is said that this word came from some computer game players. The team named
烎队 challenge to the Ehome who was the winner of the game. The team tried their best and showed their great zest in the game. They were praised for their spirit although they failed the competition.

With the spread of the reputation of the team, the character烎 also became popular among computer game players. Because the character can be cut into 开 and 火， which is a phrase in Chinese. It is vivid to express the meaning. So it becomes the symbol for game players to announce “challenging the stronger with great determination.” Now this character has already spread beyond the game field to the whole internet to be the hottest topic.

When囧 was popular, there were some businessmen took it as the theme to  design goods such as shoes and shirt , and these products met with great favor. Now it can be inferred that there must be many products designed with the theme of烎.

The youth may be exciting to these uncommon words. However, on the contrary, parents are worried about them. These words are mostly popular for their graphemes. And there real meanings were deserted by the users. The usage of these words does not conform to the standard. Parents are worried that the frequent using of these words may affect children’s Chinese learning. Some professor said “parents and teachers should remind children to be aware of the occasions while using uncommon words, and use normal and standard words as much as possible in daily life”.

As the National Day comes, the Military Parade becomes a hot topic recently. People are eager to know more about the news it, including the activities, the uniforms and some innovative businesses.

Recently, our reporter got the information that the flag-bearers of the flag escort on military parade on the National Day may be twins who were born in the 1990s.

Wang Lei and Wang Yu are twins who were born in Heilongjiang in 1990s. It would be an attractive scene that they two will be the flag-bearers for the military parade on the National Day.

“We are both recruits and just joined the army last year. It is such a surprise for us to be chosen as the flag-bearers.” They said “besides normal training, we have some extra-training. In order to be more qualified, we have already changed 3 instructors.” Wang Yu told the recorder that at the beginning of the training, they were required to do 600 goose-step, and each is restricted to 75cm long, then have a break, and go on with it. Instructors are very strict to them, and told them they would be passed if they can’t be qualified through training.

The twins do great effort for their job, and great changes happened to them. Their weights rise to 75kg after training from 60kg before training.

The instructor said “If the twins are the flag-bearers, it must be very novel and eye-catching, but it is under the premise that they are excellent enough.”

At present, the twins are still training with optimistic attitude “it’s an honor to be a member of the military phalanx, let alone being the flag-bearers.”

Let’s wait for their beautiful show.