I want the society to investigate "typos"

China is an ancient civilization with a history of more than 5,000 years. Chinese writing has a long history and a long history. It is the crystallization of the diligence and wisdom of our working people and the essence of Chinese national culture. However, in this modern society, some people randomly create "simplified characters" for convenience, some use another character with the same sound as the original character, and some people misuse words with similar sounds and shapes, which has caused social problems. Many typos appeared, which affected the seriousness of the text and caused negative social impact. Therefore, our school organized seventh and eighth grade students to conduct an investigation and research on typos around the campus, trying to understand the causes and find countermeasures; trying to make people realize the seriousness and harm of typos; at the same time, during the activities Cultivate students' sense of social responsibility and language practice ability.

We used on-the-spot investigation methods to investigate shops, markets, and communities around our school. Through investigation, we*** found 322 typos and we*** collected 139 typos. After analysis, we found that typos mainly occur in the following five situations:

First, misuse of homophones. For example: Object-finding inspiration (things), Mo (motorcycle), Ku (trousers), Zong (Zong) combination, Jiu (leeks) dishes, etc. This type of typo accounts for a high proportion of 34.53 of the typos we collected. Typos of this type are mostly made by shop owners and vendors in free markets. Most of these typos are handwritten, which obviously proves that although these people can write the general meaning, the typos are caused by low cultural quality. Some of them just write a homophone instead for convenience. Our school is located at the junction of urban and suburban areas. There are a large number of migrant workers living in the surrounding area. Their educational level is generally low. Most of them only have a primary school education. Some are even illiterate. They can’t even write their own names. They make typos. Not surprising. However, we find it strange that misuse of homophones appears in some newspapers, magazines, and slogans in large supermarkets. For example, the third page of "Contemporary Life" on July 23, 2005, "The College Entrance Examination Examination Reveals the Major Problem of Influence" The "power" in the article should be "sight"; the third paragraph of the article "Can the bus routes 11 and 27 be changed if they are too long" on the 30th page of "Liuzhou Radio and Television News" on July 21, 2005 puts " The "Ban" in "Banxian" is mistaken for "Ban"; another example is the "Xia" in Jiayong Supermarket's slogan "Xia Ni Yi Jiao" should actually be "Scar". Such mistakes are probably not due to low cultural quality. , but a matter of work attitude and sense of responsibility.

Second, the shape seems to be misused. Such as x There are many such typos, accounting for the highest proportion of typos we collected, reaching 35.97. These typos are both handwritten and printed. The educational levels of the people who wrote these typos ranged from shopkeepers and vendors in the free market with low educational levels to civil servants with relatively high levels of education (the banner "Please kiss me quickly" was posted on a from the back of a civil servant's car), school teachers ("Xuehai Wuya" comes from a school's billboard) and editors (for example, "Ya Da [ticket]" comes from "Contemporary Life News" on July 20, 2005 Page 10; another example, "Liuzhou Radio and Television News" (page 19, July 14, 2005) in the "Miss World Youth Women's Basketball Championship" in the "Miss" should be "group"). The reason is that in addition to writing such typos due to low cultural quality, carelessness is also an important factor. Some people can actually write these words correctly, but they "just pick them up" when writing without thinking about it at all. And the inspection was careless, so mistakes were inevitable.

Third, create "simplified characters". For example, "Liao" is written as the character "LE" ( ) inside the character "GUANG", "gan" is written as the character "心" ( ) below the character "Qian", "dine" is written as " ", "parking" is written as "车", etc. wait. The proportion of this type of typos is not high, at 6.47.

This is mainly due to the further spread of the "legacy" of the "random simplification" that our country had for a period of the last century, which had a negative impact on a generation.

Fourth, misuse of traditional Chinese characters. Such as "image design (design)", "fine hair cutting (hair) art", etc. The proportion of such errors is 19.42, indicating that the use of traditional Chinese characters has increased. Traditional Chinese characters mainly appear on some facade signs. There are three main reasons for this error: first, some people think that traditional Chinese characters are beautiful; second, some people think that using traditional Chinese characters for signboards can show that they are literate; third, the emergence of computer printing provides hardware support for the proliferation of traditional Chinese characters.

Fifth, there are errors in the strokes, such as one more stroke, one stroke less, etc., which are mostly seen in individual storefronts, stalls, wall advertisements, etc. The proportion of such errors is 3.6, which shows that there are not many typos that are really caused by writing errors. Most of these errors are due to low educational level and illiteracy, and a few are due to clerical errors.

In addition to the above-mentioned reasons for typos, there is a completely different reason: the whole society has a very indifferent attitude towards the occurrence of typos, and even adopts a default attitude towards the existence of typos, while the Internet and TV Typos often appear in newspapers, magazines, and other media, and they contribute to the proliferation of typos.

The occurrence of typos, in a small way, shows that the personal cultural quality is not high and affects the personal image; in a big way, it affects the seriousness of the text and damages the image of the country. Therefore, we must face up to the harm caused by typos and work together to eliminate typos. Let's briefly talk about some of our ideas as a starting point, hoping to attract the attention of the whole society and create a good atmosphere of "cracking down" typos.

To eliminate typos, the language management department must first pay great attention to it, vigorously publicize the importance of writing standardized words and the dangers of writing typos, and guide people to change the old idea that it doesn’t matter if they write typos, so that People truly understand the dangers of typos and consciously put an end to them.

Secondly, legislation should be adopted to regulate people's behavior in using words, and a writing specification manual should be formulated to guide people in the correct use of words.

Third, we must strengthen publicity and training. Use radio, television, shop windows, newspapers, leaflets, etc. to promote the knowledge of correct use of words, improve people's ability to write standardized words, and reduce the chance of typos. Particular attention should be paid to training for migrant workers to improve their cultural quality and eliminate typos from the source.

Fourth, strengthen inspections, especially inspections of areas with high typos such as the free market, and make timely corrections if errors are found. The language management department can take joint action with the industrial and commercial administration department to take some measures, such as ordering those who use typos to correct them immediately, otherwise they will not be allowed to operate; when selecting civilized business operators, typos will be included in the scoring criteria, etc. Systematically prevent the occurrence of typos.

Fifth, strengthen supervision of various media. At present, typos appear frequently on television, the Internet, newspapers and other media. It is necessary to strengthen review and proofreading before broadcasting (publication) to eliminate typos. At the same time, typos should be used as an important indicator for evaluating media, so that if they want to win awards, they must create high-quality products. How can typos be allowed to appear in high-quality products? Furthermore, the audience (readers) are required to help find typos on the screen (page) and publish them regularly in the media, so that the media can consciously eliminate typos and maintain their own image.

In short, through our investigation, we found that typos are extremely common, and eliminating typos requires the attention and efforts of all aspects of society. As long as we pay attention to it in our thoughts, be serious in our attitudes, be strict in our systems, and take effective measures, the words that appear in front of us will surely become increasingly correct, pure, and healthy.