Shanghaiist: PK this, biotch!

Dan

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:06:47 +0800

I saw NJ in the 时代报 today, for "Net Jockey": someone who writes weblog entries for a Gawker-like commercial weblog network. Hmmmm. Don't think I know anyone who writes for a Gawker-like weblog network.

Aorijia

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:33:47 +0800

From a linguistic point of view, it would be very interesting to analyze how controlling the language variety used in the media can actually affect the production of people :-Z.

nameless

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:57:45 +0800

Thanks for the explaination. I don't like the use of PK.

Micah

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:48:45 +0800

In the online gaming world it stands for "Player Kill", which is the act of one real-live player's character killing the character of another real-live player (as opposed to killing a computer-controlled non-player character, or NPC). In China, it's in widespread use to mean any one-on-one contest (popularized through the Super Voice Girl TV show), and now even spreading to mean any sort of contest where one person comes out a winner.

nameless

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:04:01 +0800

What does PK mean?

Micah

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:05:10 +0800

So that mean the next time I go to the post office or police station, the workers will magically be speaking Mandarin? Color me skeptical. I saw NJ in the 时代报 today, for "Net Jockey": someone who writes weblog entries for a Gawker-like commercial weblog network.

Mark

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:45:37 +0800

Very interfacinational point on the relationship between psychosis and neologisms. To my surpise, it seems well documented around the Net and the Net doesn't lie.