Jimei, Mouse Tail Juice... Those who understand homophony are their own
Playing with stalks is a happy thing. If someone throws out a homophonic stalk, and everyone just understands it, they will have the feeling of "one's own", satisfying people's sense of identity and belonging.
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Li Dan may never have imagined that the hottest thing on the talk show is the "homophonic stalk" he hates.
"24 filial piety is the first filial piety (filial piety)" "When he was young, Cheng Lu was a young and old Cheng (cheng)"... Wang Jianguo's homophonic stalk was "broken" and funny.
Weibo even has a dedicated account such as the "Houyin Geng Research Institute", which is used to share Hoe Yin Geng daily.
This year’s popular vocabulary also has many homophonic sounds. The popular "Jimei" of a certain video blogger was originally just an accented "sister", but now almost everyone who surfs the Internet uses it; "Mouse Tail Juice" originally claimed to be Ma Baoguo, the "master of Hunyuan Xingyi Taijiquan", said that he taught young people to "do it for themselves", but now he has become the new favorite of the ghost animal area. Every time he hears it, it makes people laugh.
Why is such a "broken" homophonic stalk so impressive?
Why is the homophonic terrier funny
In fact, recall that before various comedy shows became popular, people had already seen many classic homophonic jokes when they were still watching the paper version of "The Complete Works of Jokes". Even in the classroom, there were always homophonic jokes. For example, when the teacher said, "Han Yu is a great writer, he was a scholar in his twenties", and the students would answer, "That's not too good. I was shortsighted when I was a teenager."
Homophonic stems always contain dual meanings. For example, after the audience hears "24 filial piety", they originally expected the story of filial piety in traditional Chinese stories, but then "Looking up to the sky" obviously broke this cognitive expectation.
When you see students think that "the jinshi in their twenties are not very good", they will want to know how good the students are, but "myopia" and "good" are completely irrelevant.
Incongruity theory in psychology (incongruity theory, also known as "inconsistency theory") believes that this kind of conflict between original expectations and actual information is the source of a sense of humor. In these situations, listeners have heard the unexpected The content of “irregular” that is reasonable and reasonable will relax the serious tension originally expected, and this relaxation produces a sense of pleasure.
In other words, the homophonic stems are funny, relying on the unexpected with one tone and two meanings.
Why is the homophonic terrier spread widely
In the Internet era where information is rapidly updated and iterated, a buzzword often goes out in less than half a year.
No homophonic stalk is always funny, but homophonic stalks are always funny because they are so easy to spread.
The popularity of "24 filial piety to the sky and long whistle" went down, Wang Jianguo said again that "the abyss has nowhere to redress grievances"; people gradually stopped mentioning "young old Cheng", but immediately said "to write new stalks, I have a bad stance" Talk about it...Why can homophonic stalks always spread so widely?
The early homophonic words became popular because of high communication efficiency.
Ten years ago, everyone was still using "886 (bye bye)" to end a web chat. This kind of homophone is as practical as the economic principles put forward by the famous French linguist Martinet. In the conversation, people always try to use The most convenient means to achieve the best results, that is to say, it takes the least effort to complete effective communication, especially when typing on the keyboard. Such homophones can be used to reduce the typing of a few letters, shorten the input time, and improve the language Expression efficiency.
And now many homophonic stalks are widely spread because they can appear "polite" in communication.
Out of politeness, in many cases, we can’t just follow economic principles and speak bluntly. Instead, we must be polite, euphemistic, and use honorifics more. This is the politeness proposed by the British linguist Leech. in principle.
Many homophonic stalks nowadays seem to increase the audience’s understanding cost and are not in line with economic principles, but they are in line with the principle of politeness. For example, calling an unfamiliar girl "sister" may be too familiar and impolite, but A "Jimei" sound can express intimacy and a certain sense of distance, which makes it seem very measured.
It is blunt and impolite to say "to do it for yourself" to others, but to say "mouse tail juice" can express the original meaning, and let everyone know that they are playing tricks, without losing the euphemism.
Finally, playing stalks is always a happy thing. If someone throws a homophonic stalk, and everyone happens to understand it, it will have a feeling of "one's own person" and satisfy people's sense of identity and belonging.
Even if the people present have listened to it for the first time, they can understand it quickly, and then tell more friends about the homophony, so that more friends can become "owners."
In this way, homophonic stalks spread rapidly, endlessly.
Jimei, protect the best homophonic terrier duck together (Yeah)!
Yin Jinxiu Source: China Youth Daily