Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Chinese Internet Slang & "Netspeak". Chinese netizens enjoy playing with language. They make up new words, insert alphabetic and numerical abbreviations between the Chinese characters in their posts, write backwards and upside down to fool the censors, and trade catchphrases with wild abandon. Dour language mavens have complained that the liberties they take with the language are harming Chinese culture and the traditional script, but they've been unable to stop netizens from having fun. To outsiders, however, conversations full of acronyms, ancient characters, and allusions to pop Chinese culture is quite difficult to understand.