Comments on: China: 2008 Internet Buzz Words Video

By: sdk

sdk — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:34:10 +0000

lmao…no one gets tired turning the men’s football team into a punching bag.

By: China Journal : Best of the China Blogs: September 16

China Journal : Best of the China Blogs: September 16 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:40:46 +0000

[...] sauce and push-ups and more: A spoof music video, with lyrics in translation, serves as a primer of the year’s top Internet catchphrases. [Global [...]

By: Oiwan Lam

Oiwan Lam — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:58:24 +0000

yeah, actually most of the terms are not political. for 冏, you can imagine a sober expression, for 槑，it is a double of 呆, which means dumb or silly.

for others, you can try searching within globalvoices e.g “very yellow, very violent”, “press up” or “push up”, “southern china tiger”, “china football team”.

the explanation of each term is like going back to the whole year blogsphere entries of post. so rather impossible. maybe some chinese wikipedian can compose a online dictionary on this… :)

By: Daniel Duende

Daniel Duende — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:35:52 +0000

Thank you, Oiwan. :)

But we’ll really appreciate if were there any explanations for some of these terms.

Best,
D.D.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:11:32 +0000

Orz, Oiwan.
Many of them are not just political but are also close to our daily life and internet culture.
You know any encyclopedia or dictionary (English better) to explain these words to people unfamiliar with the stories behind?

By: Oiwan Lam

Oiwan Lam — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:25:49 +0000

it is the streaming problem, you can go to the 56.com to watch the video (just click the link on the play screen).

By: Daniel Duende

Daniel Duende — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:19:07 +0000

Was the video taken offline? I couldn’t play it. =/

Best,
D.D.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:49:39 +0000

This is a great article! :) Political rhetoric 101 for China. Thank you for posting this.