As time goes on, we find this course is becoming more and
more challenging. Recently we are busy preparing for the final project, at the
same time, learning programming with python.
Since this is a really multidiscipline course, this time, I’d
love to talk about something more relaxing, the cyber-culture in social media.
More specifically, some fun web slang!
Do you know this two handsome guys? Yes! They are Ng Cheuk
Hei from HK and Huang Xiaoming from mainland, both are very popular actors. Two
funny slang, “Mai Fei Fat” and “Not At All” were created because of them.
In
a TV commercial, Ng said “Tai Lin, my favorite”. With his strong HK accent, it
just sounds like “Tai Lin, Maii Fei Fat”. Then the slang was created and used for mocking Ng and just for fun. Now not only young people in
HK use this word, you can also see some figures in TV series using it.
Very similarly, netizens in mainland use the slang “Nao Tai
Tao” to laugh at Huang’s terrible oral English. Because he pronounced “Not at all” like “Nao
Tai Tao”.
Actually, their English are not too bad. Maybe this two
words became popular just because there are many people jealous of Ng and Huang’s
handsome look. LOL
Young people always like kuso, suck gags, anti-humor and another funny
but stupid things. That’s why GOLDEN Forum in HK as well as Tianya and Tieba in
mainland could be so hot. I found that even though netizens in HK and mainland
use different social platform, but their cyber-culture really have some
similarities.
The other interesting example is “MK Look” and “Sha Ma Te”. Both
of these neologisms are used to describe certain dressing styles of some people,
who want to be fashion, but could only afford to cheap, poor-quality and weird
clothes. Those kind of clothes could be found in Mong Kok (a shopping area in
HK) and Taobao (a very influential online shopping site operated by Alibaba).
Behind “MK Look” and “Taobao Feel” are two subcultures originated from cyberspace,
“Mong Kok Culture” and “Sha Ma Te Culture”.
Everyday, more and more new words would emerge online,
some of them may even penetrate into everyone’s daily life. Our course project targets social media, exactly
where most of new words come from. When we analyze netizens’ comments, we have
to figure out the meaning of the internet slangs they use. This may increase
the difficulty of our natural language processing and data mining.
Your blog is so special with this kind of popular pictures.I was completely attracted by your blog as soon as i opened it.Indeed,more and more new words emerge online and influenced our daily life.By the way, I suggest you to put your old photo on this blog as well.You can seckill the other pictures!
回复删除My old picture? NO NO NO NO NO NO
删除It's too MK :p
I think Mr Huang and Mr Ng are much more charming :)
What an interesting article! Actually, I only knew "Nao Tai Tao" and read some funny jokes about it before. In my view, these meaningless words become popular may because people want to look for some fun from their busy daily life. Thank you for your sharing!
回复删除Hahaha.
删除To relax myself, I followed many funny weibo users and facebook pages.
For a human, the most important thing is being happy.
Funny topic!
回复删除Once I saw 'MAII FEI FAT', I knew it must be related to Ng Cheuk Hei. XD
I agree that understanding internet slangs are important for doing NLP online. At the same time, I think emoticon also a important area of NLP. On the forum, people tend to use emoticon to reply others.
I am happy to know you like this topic!
删除I agree with you that emoticon is important for sentiment analysis. For example, emoticons can help us detect sarcasm.
You topic makes me confused at the beginning. But your blog is so impressive. I feel that Human being is so creative. It is difficult to do NLP. Maybe we can defined the unrecognized words as the new word. There is still a lot of artificial work to do.
回复删除It is true that it would be difficult for computers to identify the new word. Maybe we could teach them how to do recognize those words. Machine learning could help computers a lot. The more the computer see a new word, the better understanding it would have.
删除You mention the new words appearing on the Internet with quite a humorous accent which makes it really impressive.The study of new words,especially some new meaning of old words are quite popular these days and is also a challenge in sentiment analysis.What's more,well I believe that Mr Huang did set a new image after his acting in the movie HeHuoRen as a English teacher with fluent oral English.Still,the NAOTAITAO he has sang before will always remain in everyone's heart. lol
回复删除When you mention Mr Huang, it just reminds me one of my professor. TAT
删除It is true that the new internet slang would be a difficulty for sentiment analysis. We also face this problem when we are doing our final project. Maybe machine learning is a solution for this question.
Prof. Huang will always remain in my heart.
I think social networks always make these popular words more popular. For example, several months ago, the sentence 'Where to learn the best excavation technology?' almost appeared at the end of most popular tweets though it is meaningless. It first became prevailing in Tieba and more people learned about it on Weibo. However, maybe none of us will use it today because it is a little out-of-date. In social networks, such popular words appear quickly and disappear quickly as well!
回复删除Netizens are always so creative. New words emergence every day. Many of them are related to news. Just like you indicates, many popular words may be forgotten by people quickly, whten people have no more interest in the news the words related to, or people are tired using them. However some words could be popular for many years. For example, "too young too simple, sometimes naive". XD
删除Some of the word will disappear and some will not, then the question is coming!
The title of this blog really caught my eyes. I first thought you were going to talk something about cantonese pronunciation until I saw the familiar faces in the photo. Social media is clearly having a noticeable impact on language. To be more specific, social media contributes to creating and accelerating the speed of spreading such new words. The rising use of network language has also changed the way we use traditional expressions.
回复删除Yes, many word from internet have been used in our daily life. It is a very interest phenomenon.
删除There are also many jokes and gags about some people's cantonese accent. I love those jokes, as well as internet slang created by Hong Kong netizens. Now we are studying in HK, I think the more we know about local people's gags, the better we could understand local culture.
I have to be honest that the photo of Ng Cheuk Hei interested me to read this blog! I fond it interesting and gave me a good relax before the final presentation.
回复删除The new words you mentioned are important part of our sentiment dictionary. And people also give new different meaning on normal words. So edit the dictionary is a necessary step to reach a more accurate goal.
Typically, our classmate write blogs about technical details. Of course their work could provide us many useful information that is related to our course. But I prefer to write something more relaxing and fun. Wish you enjoy my post~
删除I just want to say this video is so amazing. I like to eat fruit. hahaha
回复删除The video is about MK, where amazing happen!
删除This video was recomposed from a TV interview in MK. This anti-occupy person became notorious immediately due to his crazy answer. Some people thought he had some relationship with local mafia and some believed he was a tourist from mainland.
A few weeks ago, a portrait of him was drew on the white board at the learning garden.
Johnny!!!!!! You're born for social media marketing!!!!! Seriously, I invite you to post some interesing content on my forum: www.ba-china.org
回复删除All of you topics are eye-catching! I have to say that you're a DouBi, a knowledgeable DouBi, hahaha.
Back to your topic, I think some of the interesting topics (段子，梗) spreading on social media were created by the public relation or marketing team supporting the stars. Sarcasm is the human nature that people laughing at the famous, and it could arouse the sympathy of the public. So the 段子 could be disseminated so widely and quickly.