尘元先生久未有新作问世,我在这里狗尾续貂,给他补充两条有关语言的社会性变化的话题。 一次与我国一位极负盛名的英语前辈同席,他冷不丁地问我,“卡拉OK”是什么意思?同席的另一位英语专家不禁笑了起来。但仔细想一想,他们一个问,一个笑,都不无道理。表面看,笑的似乎是这位英语大师不谙世情,而其实笑的是这句洋泾浜日化英语居然风靡中国,成了社会上 Mr. Chen has not come out with a new work for a long time, and I’m here to write about the social changes in two languages. At one time with one of our most prestigious English seniors, he asked me for no reason what I meant by “karaoke.” Another English expert at the same seat could not help laughing. But think carefully, they asked one, a laugh, no no reason. On the surface, it seems that laughter is the master of English is not familiar with the world, but in fact laugh is this sentence Pidgin daily English actually swept China, became a community