Monday, March 23, 2009

Forth literacy blog entry


I think many had heard about that a creature named Grass Mud Horse and its friends was created by Chinese net buddies. China was trying to block something that the officers thought they were not beneficial to internet environment. But something they did not expect was they deleted too much. So that it affected the freedom of speech of Chinese. Then Chinese created some creatures to satirize this event.
These creatures are all named by Chinese dirty words, but they were not exactly dirty words. Chinese used partial tone to name them. For example they used “Grass Mud Horse” instead of “fuck your mother”; they had almost the same pronunciation in Chinese. These creatures were so famous that almost every Chinese known them. Also, some foreign Medias reported them, such as CNN. Additional, one creature named “River crab” occurred. This one had nearly the same pronunciation with the word “harmonization”. It showed Chinese government emphasized the policy of harmonization too much, they controlled too hard on internet, and it had affected normal life of Chinese people. Too much was harmonized. So they made the story of “Grass Mud Horse” fought with the “River crab” to hint they could not stand in such a hard policy. Reporter of CNN said a sentenced that my entire friend thought it was classical “But it involved their mothers.”
This should the diversity of literacy, it can critical much but without any dirty word. But people’s anger was released out. It also should nobody can give too much pressure to the society, or people will fight against it.

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