Language is changing constantly, and while it used to be cool in China for internet users to say “Oh my God!” in English, the newest fad is to say “Oh my Lady Gaga!”
Oh My Lady Gaga has swept across the digital nation in China in internet chat rooms, instant and text messages. Lady Gaga, don’t we just love you!
However Chinese academics are worried about such slang will poison Chinese culture and that the English language will slowly alter Chinese.
Chinese authorities are discreetly banning slang phrases from various broadcasts and are replacing it with proper Chinese. A number of banned English include acronyms NBA (National Basketball Association) and GDP (Gross Domestic Product), which by the way China’s GDP grew by almost 12% in the first three month’s of 2010… China certainly is an economy on steroids!
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