【Cultural Review】
Is it "Account Number" or "Account Number"? Recently, the wrong use of words in the email login system page of a university has attracted attention. Another news linked to this news is that many social media and Internet platform landing pages have misused "account number" for "account number". Since July this year, under the attention and promotion of the State Language Commission, relevant social software and Internet platforms have successively changed "account" to "account".
"Account" and "account number", the vast majority of people can correctly understand the real meaning behind these two words, and will not have an impact on actual life and work because of the new and old expressions of the relevant meanings. The dispute between "account number" and "account number" is actually a matter of language and writing. In media reports, a number of language and writing experts said in interviews that "account number" is the old usage, and now the correct expression is "account number", and in the 7th edition of the Modern Chinese Dictionary, there is only an entry for "account number" and no entry for "account number".
Is it meaningful to compare "account number" and "account number"? To answer this question, we need to combine the current Internet-based social and cultural life. A clear change is that the phenomenon of modern Chinese words "old words and new meanings" is very common, many words have exploded on the Internet after being infused with new meanings, and as more and more people use them, these old words with new meanings have become people's conventional "correct" expressions, and then continue to be used.
This situation has been influenced by social changes and popular culture, and has spread rapidly through the power of the Internet. However, as long as you observe carefully, you can find that in some rigorous wording expressions, the relevant words are still used in accordance with their original semantics in line with the language and writing standards. Therefore, it is still necessary for institutions or individuals to learn the correct use of Chinese words, and it is obviously positive to compare the real "account" and "account number".
At present, our society is enjoying the convenience and speed brought by Internet technology, and it has also triggered discussions about the Internet era when people are easy to "pick up a pen and forget to write". It is an indisputable fact that people are writing less and less. Input methods are getting smarter, making people's words more and more "accurate", but behind it is that when people want to write or query a single word or word, it is often difficult to output correctly. Just like "account" and "account", if it were not for the media attention, people may not pay attention to the difference between the two words, let alone know the "history of change" in the meaning of the word. In fact, the phenomenon of irregular use of words on the Internet is very common, in addition to "account" and "account number", many people also can't distinguish between "login" and "login", "charge" and "rush", "deposit" and "deposit".
All kinds of institutional entities facing the majority of users must strictly abide by the usage specifications when using language and writing. This is a clear provision of the Law on the Standard Spoken and Written Language of the People's Republic of China, and it is also the obligation of all kinds of institutions to promote and standardize the spoken and written language. It is necessary to promote the use of standardized language by most people, starting with the correct use of normative words by binding institutions. One of the important ways to learn words is subtle, and institutions such as universities use the correct words in the expression of word meanings to achieve and amplify this effect. (Guangming Daily, Chen Cheng)