Examples to illustrate the dangers of typos

When you are walking on the way to school or taking to the streets on holidays, you may have noticed this phenomenon: many store signs use foreign characters or traditional Chinese characters, and many advertisements and posters use foreign characters or traditional Chinese characters. There are a lot of typos and made-up Chinese characters everywhere. You may not have thought about it: What consequences will this confusion of word usage have on society? What impact will it have on school students? What do foreign tourists think of Chinese characters?

There are countless typos that people inadvertently "take root, sprout and reproduce": the agricultural technology department helps farmers to prevent and control pests and diseases by writing "prescriptions" for free, but farmers are harmed when they apply pesticides according to the prescription. The culprit turned out to be a typo in "prescription." Recently, a compensation agreement was reached at the legal service office of Xintan Town, Sheyang County for this "special" drug injury claim dispute. The town's agricultural technology department mistakenly wrote "mu" as "one" with a "one-character difference". The damaged farmers were compensated 1,800 yuan. "This is really a lesson! I didn't expect that a typo would have such consequences."

Don't think that typos have only "taken root and sprout" now. There are typos: the ancients wrote typos, but we can't understand them. Therefore, the typos written by the ancients were given the reputation of "tongjiazi". Typos in reading and writing have been around since ancient times. The ancients also wrote jokes about typos: A man with a rough knowledge of writing came to Beijing and anchored his boat by the Yangtze River at night. After the man landed and returned to the boat, he hurriedly called the boatman, "There are thieves here. Go somewhere else!" The boatman said, "Why do you see thieves?" The man said, "On the high stone monument over there. Isn't it written about Jiang Xin's thief?" The boatman said with a smile: "It's not Jiang Xin's poem! Why did you admit it wrong?" The man went to the monument and looked at it again, and came back and said, "The poem is in the shape of a thief." It is said that a corrupt official was beheaded, his soul went to the underworld, and he was sentenced to be reincarnated as a dog. He hurriedly begged and said, "I would like to be born as a bitch." The King of Hell asked him why he wanted to be born as a bitch, and he replied: "Confucius taught that the bitch will get it if she is lucky enough!" , Don’t avoid it when faced with difficulties.”)

In many places of interest, typos are everywhere: in the main entrance hall of the Palace Museum, “Youyang Zazu” is written as “Xiyang Zazu”. ”; in the Forbidden City, an explanation board said “pure and flawless” was changed to “pure and flawless”; on the explanation board of the Temple of Earth and the Fangze Altar: “Liu Li” was written as “Sulfur Li”... These are just the world’s civilizations There are only a few typos in the landscape, but for foreign tourists, they may not understand what typos are, but don’t we Chinese people have a sense of shame?

Writing or reading errors are often caused by similar forms of words. Characters with similar lines and styles but different meanings are called "similar characters". Understanding some knowledge about "similar characters" and "similar characters" can help us use Chinese characters correctly.

In addition to more than 200 single-body characters in modern Chinese characters, the rest are "combined characters". "Combined characters" are composed of two or more components. The pronunciation of phonetic and character sounds is complicated. The same pronunciation can be expressed by different phonetic sounds. This is the basic reason for the misuse of typos.

In addition to the above-mentioned reasons for the occurrence of typos, there is also a completely different reason: the attitude of the whole society towards the occurrence of typos

It is very indifferent and even acquiesces to the existence of typos. Attitude, typos often appear in the Internet, TV, newspapers, magazines and other media, which contributes to the proliferation of typos.

Chinese characters are one of the oldest writing systems in the world and are the crystallization of the excellent traditions of the Chinese nation. We should cherish it very much, use it correctly, and give full play to its role. This is crucial for inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, cultivating patriotism, and better learning various cultural and scientific knowledge. The current chaotic use of Chinese characters in society has caused losses and obstacles to economic development, scientific progress, education popularization, cultural prosperity, and the construction of social and spiritual civilization. It has also caused interference and misleading to our students in the use of Chinese characters.

On October 31, 2000, our country promulgated the "National Standard Spoken and Written Language Law", which for the first time clarified the role of Mandarin and standardized characters in legal form. As well as the status of the country's common spoken and written language, provisions are made for the use of the same spoken and written language in the country. The National Standard Spoken and Written Language Law came into effect on January 1, 2001. In order to eliminate typos, the language management department has attached great importance to it, vigorously publicized the importance of writing standardized words and the harm of writing typos, and guided people to change the old ideological concept that it does not matter if they write typos, so that people can truly understand the harm of typos, so as to Consciously avoid typos. Pass legislation to regulate people's behavior in using words, and formulate word specification manuals to guide people in the correct use of words.

Therefore, we should conscientiously implement: read the pronunciation of each character, recognize the shape of each character, write the characters correctly, and do not scribble; use standardized simplified characters, in accordance with the 1986 State Council The approved re-published "Simplified Character List" shall prevail and do not create simplified characters randomly; strengthen publicity and training, use radio, television, windows, newspapers, leaflets, etc. to promote the knowledge of correct use of characters, improve their ability to write standardized characters, and reduce Opportunities for typos to appear. In particular, we must pay attention to our own training, improve our cultural quality, and eliminate typos from the source.

The occurrence of typos, in a small way, shows that a person's cultural quality is not high and affects his 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. Writing typos is a sign of poor basic skills in the Chinese language. Writing is the cornerstone of culture, and the Chinese language is the basis for the cohesion and independence of the Chinese nation after thousands of years of ups and downs. We want to inherit and carry forward the traditional culture of our motherland. However, we Chinese people cannot even write Chinese characters smoothly, so how can we talk about carrying forward the traditional culture? If you have solid basic skills in the Chinese language and understand every Chinese character accurately, you will not make typos whether using paper and pen or computer. The phenomenon of typos reflects the carelessness, neglect, playfulness and utilitarian mentality towards words, which is harmful to the education of the next generation and even the national cultural undertakings. In short, the phenomenon of typos is 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.