Chinese number codes in chatting
Axel introduced me to it first, and
this article (in German) in Telepolis described it in depth: There's a strange new phenomenon in Chinese Internet slang, people use number combinations to form often-used phrases. It takes some imagination to guess the original Chinese sentence behind the code (more so if you don't speak Chinese, like me), but it's a fascinating approach coming from a fascinating language. To get the idea, see
this table which lists a lot of these chat neologisms.
Posted by jens at August 13, 2003 02:48 PM
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