On January 5, the editorial board of “Bite the Tongue” released the “Top 10 Language Errors of 2020″, collating the top 10 words with more pronunciation, writing and misuse. Among them, affected by the epidemic, Liuzhou snail noodles quickly became popular, and many businesses mistakenly wrote “snail noodles” as “screw noodles” in their publicity, making it one of the “Top 10 Language Errors”.
Status quo: “螺sī” “螺shī” is indistinguishable
“Probably because of the homophonic pronunciation as ‘sī’, which is easily written as ‘screw’.” “Those who don’t know the correct pronunciation also type it as 螺 ‘lion’ noodles.” “There are snails in snail noodles, not screws.” “When I was a kid, I always thought that the snail’s spikes were called snails because they looked like screws.” In the past two days, after the announcement of the “Top 10 Language Errors”, the wrong way to write and call snail noodles has also caused a lot of discussion among netizens.
Why do so many people mispronounce snail noodles?
Netizen posts poll on ‘how to pronounce snail noodles’
On a social networking site, a post by a netizen set up a poll on “how to pronounce 螺蛳粉“, in which more than 1,400 netizens voted, with 80% voting for “螺sī粉” and the rest voting for ” The rest voted for ” 螺shī粉“. In the post, many netizens also expressed their views. In the opinion of some netizens, the difference in dialects between the north and the south means that the northern dialects are prone to mispronounce the warped tongue, while many of the southern dialects do not distinguish between the flat and warped tongues.
It’s not just netizens who are confused about the name of snail noodles, many bags of Liuzhou snail noodles on e-commerce platforms are marked with the sales product “snail noodles” along with “screw noodles” and “conch noodles” in order to make it easier for consumers to search and buy.
Reason: Differences in language usage, habits of life
Why is there a phenomenon of misreading and miswriting of snail? This reporter interviewed two language teaching teachers in the city.
“The reason for this is, first of all, language habits, Guangxi and even some southern regions in China, there is no flat and warped tongue in pronunciation, in pronunciation ‘snail’ and ‘screw’ the same. On the other hand, nowadays, adults use computers more, handwriting less, sometimes the word ‘snail’ of snail powder is not enough word sense, easy to confuse when typing pinyin, easy to type into ‘lion’.” Li Jiahua, a secondary school language teacher and researcher at the Education Bureau of Liubei District’s Teaching and Research Office, said.
And Li Weihong, a teacher at the 39th Middle School in Liuzhou, feels that, geographically, there is no tradition of eating snails outside of the two regions, and that misuse is inevitable as the creatures used for food, such as snail noodles, are not well known, especially by northerners. In addition to this, she believes that now that the internet has developed, the use of language is so far removed from the norms of traditional language that harmonic substitution is common, so misuse is “the norm”.
Concerns: whether it will have an impact on Liuzhou snail noodles
The “Netflix” cuisine is prone to all sorts of problems behind the explosion of popularity, and the use of unregulated names such as “screw noodles” and “conch noodles” is a cause for concern: will the misnomer have any impact on the spread of Liuzhou’s Will this misnomer have any impact on the spread of Liuzhou’s famous food card?
“On the Internet, netizens are prone to mistyping when they don’t know the correct pronunciation of snail noodles.” Ni Choshiyang, president of the Liuzhou Snail Noodles Association, believes that there are various mispronunciations of snail noodles, and that such internet-style spreading is understandable. However, from the perspective of protecting and regulating Liuzhou snail noodles, some manufacturers and sellers are using the name Liuzhou snail noodles on e-commerce platforms, rubbing up against the buzz and playing with the name harmonics, producing and selling fake and cottage products that will affect the image of Liuzhou snail noodles.
Some individual snail noodle shops once misspelled “snail noodle” as “conch noodle”
“In 2018, Liuzhou snail noodles were awarded the geographical indication certification trademark, which is a good tool to defend rights, and if necessary, some counterfeit brands can be investigated and fined, and now more than 30 enterprises producing counterfeit Liuzhou snail noodles brands have been targeted to defend their rights.” Ni Choshiyang said
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Post time: Aug-09-2022