2007年的考纲规定，高考作文里若出现网络用语可能会被扣分，这引起了社会上针对网络语言存在是否合理的争论。无论谁对谁错，网络语言在年轻人中盛行，从而从某种程度上占据了正统语言的位置，这是不争的事实。国家考试的态度正反应了语言学界对网络语言的看法。

 
Students are prohibited from using hard-to-understand Internet terms in their compositions during the national College Entrance Examination in 2007, or face mark deductions .

That is the message delivered in the "Outline for National College Entrance Examination in 2007" issued yesterday across the country.

Internet terms refer to words and expressions that were created by online web surfers based on dialects or similarities in pronunciation.

These expressions are rampant in daily use among teenagers and even adults. The state media are flooded with stories that lash out at abusive Internet terms.

A report on China web portal sina.com said a composition written by a middle school student in central China was rife with these intricate Internet terms, which are a fad among students, such as 'GG' (literally meaning elder brother), 'Ou' (I), 'Sauce Purple' (so) and 'KPM' ( a combo word of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut and McDonalds).

Experts play down the use of Internet terms among students, a group that is considered to lack judgment and easily succumb to peer pressure.

Director of the Linguistic Department at Huazhong Normal University in the central province of Hubei Wu Zhenguo said students should be prudent while using Internet terms.
Committee director of the China Association of Lexicography Zhou Mingjian said in a report from the official Xinhua News Agency that Internet terms cannot be used as formal expressions and students are discouraged from using them because once they are accustomed to it, it will be hard to get rid of the habit.

Comments from Wu and Zhou will inevitably meet strong opposition from middle school students, who account for 32.3 percent of China's 137 million Internet users.

Beijing No 25 Middle School student Li Menghui said Internet language is simple and appealing. "Most students use these terms when they surf the Internet ."

"You will be laughed at if you can't keep up with the fad," said Li.
However, Li is cautious about when she uses the terms.

"I am afraid that my teacher cannot understand them, so I will not use them in my composition," said Li.

（Agencies）

Vocabulary:

Internet terms：网络用语

mark deductions：扣分

play down:减少，降低

surf the Internet：上网

（英语点津陈蓓编辑）