微信时代的新兴词汇

Zhoudan wrote:

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Zhoudan wrote:

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The yearlong lapse—-which is relatively fast for a traditional dictionary to add a word—-highlights a problem that academics and linguists are trying to solve: lexicographers, the experts who write gold-standard definitions, cannot keep up with demand in an era when words travel by fiber-optic cable and not just by mouth or mail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senpai_and_kōhai

Senpai and kōhai


In Japan, senpai (先輩?) is an upperclassman, someone of a higher age, or senior and kōhai (後輩?) is a protégé or junior. The mentor system is found at all levels of education, and in sports clubs, businesses, and informal or social organizations. The relationship is an essential element of Japanese seniority-based status relationships, similar to the way that family and other relationships are decided based on age, in which even twins may be divided into elder and younger siblings.

The senpai is roughly equivalent to the Western concept of a mentor, while kōhai is roughly equivalent to protégé, though they do not imply as strong a relationship as these words mean in the West. More simply, these may be translated as senior and junior, or as an elder compared with someone younger in the family, company, or organization; the terms are used more widely than a true mentor/protégé in the West and are applied to all members of one group that are senior (the senpai) to all the members of another group (the kōhai). There is usually no average separation in age between a senpai and his or her kōhai.

A junior student will often refer to elder and more high class students as senpai, and alumni will often refer to alumni from earlier classes as senpai. This holds true particularly if events bring them together later on, such as joining the same company, serving on a board together, or simply being in a club or parent's organization at the same time.

On rare occasions, a younger person may also be considered the senpai of an elder person if circumstances dictate—such as if the elder entered an organization or company at a later time than the younger did.

jyuan_us wrote:

在一个几亿人用微信聊天的时代，随时都有新词汇被制造出来，有的可能过一段时间就消失了但也有很多会成为汉语的规范的新词语。没事搜集这类词汇的人应该很多， 网上也应该有很多这类词语的列表。我没有打算查这些列表， 而是打算把自己听到的和看到的罗列在这里。也欢迎诸位不断地添加。先写几个（其中的一些可能流行很多年了，但我仍然感觉它们很新，见笑了）：

wherestip wrote:

Now I understand why 先辈 is used so extensively in our Chinese forum.