Chinanews client, Beijing, January 6th (Reporter Shangguanyun) On the 6th, the editorial department of "Chew Words" announced the "Top Ten Language Mistakes" in 2021, including: the "six" of "Liu'an" was misread as liù , The "species" of "vaccination" is misread as zhǒng, etc.
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How are they selected?
What principles have been followed?
Regarding the above issues, Huang Anjing, the editor-in-chief of "Chew Words", said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that the annual selection of "Top Ten Chinese Mistakes" of "Chew Words" is currently basically divided into material collection, item collation, expert review, soliciting opinions, and final approval. Five steps.
Drawing: Lang Lang and Sun Yue
What are the characteristics of the "Top Ten Chinese Mistakes" in 2021?
In the annual appraisal, the magazine "Zhen Wen Che Zi" has been adhering to the three standards of typicality, news and extensiveness, and conducts the annual selection of the "Ten Major Chinese Mistakes".
Huang Anjing said that in 2021, there will be many "hot spots" in the "language life" that have caused widespread public concern.
For example, in reports on the "epidemic" and "anti-epidemic", "Ningxia Yinchuan" was mistaken for "Gansu Yinchuan", "Bayuquan" was mistaken for "Squidquan" and so on.
Judging from the selection results, Huang Anjing introduced that the “Top Ten Language Errors” in 2021 have the following characteristics.
First, the "other characters" are proliferating, and the "typos" are almost extinct, indicating that language errors have moved from the "handwriting" era to the "keyboard" era.
In the past "handwriting" era, typos were proliferated. For example, the upper part of the word "Mao" was wrongly written as "yue", the lower part was wrongly written as "卯", the word "bu" was added a little more on the lower right side, and the word "Bai" was wrongly written on the right side. Written as three horizontal lines and so on.
In today's "keyboard input" era, such errors have been greatly reduced, and even almost disappeared.
Now the errors are mainly concentrated on other characters, such as mistaken "man" for "man", mistaken "jing" for "jing", mistaken "geng" for "geng", mistaken "偾" for "spray", etc. Typos are rare.
Use the keyboard to input, unless you make it hard by yourself, you will generally not make a mistake.
This should be related to the continuous improvement of the Chinese character input system.
Second, there are 5 items related to "epidemic" and "anti-epidemic", which are obviously still "dominant", indicating that the "epidemic" has not yet ended and the "anti-epidemic" is still in a critical period.
"Pandemic" and "anti-epidemic" are still the focus of worldwide attention this year.
Vaccine vaccination, the spread, prevention and control of Delta and Omi Keron strains, etc., are still the most concerned annual themes and topics of concern in 2021.
In building this year's "discourse system", "epidemic" and "anti-epidemic" play an important role, and the focus of social attention is still focused on topics such as "epidemic" and "anti-epidemic".
This is the reason why there are many entries involving "epidemic" and "anti-epidemic" in the "Top Ten Language Mistakes in 2021".
What are the selection steps?
It is understood that the annual "Top Ten Chinese Mistakes" of "Zhen Wen Che Zi" was released in 2006, and it has been 16 years.
Drawing: Lang Lang and Sun Yue
Huang Anjing said that the annual selection of "Ten Chinese Mistakes" of "Zhen Wen Che Zi" is basically carried out in accordance with a relatively fixed procedure, which is currently divided into five steps: material collection, item arrangement, expert review, solicitation of opinions, and final review.
The collection of candidate materials for the "Ten Major Chinese Mistakes" has all gone through a process of "sea selection", mainly from three sources including readers' contributions.
Then, the editorial department of "Zhe Wen Che Zi" sorted out and screened the collected error materials, put forward 50 preliminary selection items, and organized language experts to review and vote on the 50 preliminary selection items one by one, forming 15 candidate items.
Next, the editorial department of "Bite the Words" sent 15 alternative entries to professionals for their opinions.
Based on the feedback, the editorial department organized experts to do the final review of the "15 in 10", and completed the final draft of the "Ten Major Chinese Mistakes".
As for the purpose of releasing the annual "Top Ten Chinese Mistakes", Huang Anjing said that he wanted to use this method to maximize people's awareness of language standards and the awareness of their mother tongue; at the same time, he also wanted to open a " "Social Classroom", using the "ant moving" approach to reduce social language errors.
This effort has also achieved certain results.
He gave an example, for example, "Bags of Currency" was listed in the "Top Ten Language Mistakes" in "Chew Words". Later, this mistake was rarely seen.
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