"Rookie" and "prawn"
Rookie refers to a person who is very good at surfing the Internet. It is used to describe a newbie on the Internet. The corresponding word in English is newbie;
Draw, homophonic to Daxia, describes an Internet expert. The corresponding word in English is knowbie, which means a knowledgeable and experienced Internet user. It is worth mentioning that these two groups of words have relatively consistent meanings in their respective languages. Relevance: "rookie" and "prawn" in Chinese have heavy joking elements and are suitable for expression in words. They are unlikely to be widely circulated in spoken language. However, "newbie" and "knowbie" in English have few syllables and are commonly used in spoken language. The pronunciation is simple and easy to understand, the spelling is easy to remember, and the meaning can be extended to other situations outside the Internet. It has a broad mass base and has appeared in major official media.
"Filling" and "diving"
Forums are an important carrier of online communication. Naturally, the most Internet terms are created here, and the most common ones are not "flooding" and "diving." None other than.
The word "shushing" in Chinese is vivid. Some people repeatedly leave messages in the forum in order to gain points. When replying to other people's posts, they do not make communicative comments, but simply express "agree". , "support", the content has nothing to do with the topic. This phenomenon is called bump in English, which means "top" in the forum: To bump a thread on an internet forum is to post a reply in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. This is also called "necroposting". This kind of "spam" is often considered a kind of spam and is banned by many forums.
"Diving" refers to the behavior of only browsing without speaking in forums, chat rooms, etc. Such people are like "divers" who never surface. The English equivalent of "diving" is lurk:
v. Lurking is an activity performed on Internet Forums or Chat rooms that involves wandering the website, reading posts and never actually posting anything. Long-term "diving" This will lead to a lack of popularity in the forum, and such members will eventually be canceled by the administrator. However, when they first join a forum, they are accepted and encouraged to "dive" for a short period of time in order to understand the style of the forum and the topics discussed.
Some other common forum terms are as follows:
Post: Both post and thread can refer to "posts" in the forum and are often used interchangeably.
Vote: poll
Quote: quote
Top post: sticky
Avatar: avatar
Signature: signature
Moderator (moderator in the forum): moderator
Control panel: control panel
Expression: smiley
Internet subculture New words in
Netizen meeting (meeting in real life after meeting on the Internet): user eye-D
v. To meet someone face-to-face for the first time after having established only a written or oral relationship.
Corn (a person who makes money by registering and selling domain names): domainer
n. A person who makes a living from domain name speculation or by purchasing popular domain names and filling the sites with advertising.
Instant messaging (chat) software: Instant Messenger (IM)
Blogosphere: blogsphere
Surfing : surf
Video girl: camgirl
n. A girl or young woman who broadcasts live pictures of herself over the World Wide Web. Also: cam-girl, cam girl, Webcam girl .
Spam: spam
Downloading unauthorized music: songlifting
pp. Illegally downloading music. [Blend of song and shoplifting.]
-songlift v.
-songlifter n.
streamies
noun. People who listen to Internet-based (i.e. , streamed) radio or music broadcasts.
floating ad floating ad
pop-up ad is an advertisement that pops up automatically when you log in to a certain web page. Now a new type of pop-up advertisement has appeared. The advertisement is not displayed when entering the webpage, but pops up when the webpage is closed. There is also a word in English called pop-under ad
Outernet generally refers to traditional media other than the Internet, such as magazines, newspapers, books, etc. TV, movies, etc.