Voice on the latest edition of the Standard Dictionary of Modern Chinese refusing to include fashionable expressions like “diaosi” and “baifumei”

Source:Global Times Published: 2014-8-28 23:53:01

"These words show low taste and will inevitably be wiped out soon."

Li Xingjian, a research fellow with the Institute of Applied Linguistic at the Ministry of Education,

on the latest edition of the Standard Dictionary of Modern Chinese refusing to include fashionable expressions like "diaosi," a rough synonym for unprivileged loser, and "baifumei," a rich and beautiful woman with white skin, quoted by thepaper.cn on Thursday.



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