Smilence, innernet, suihide and other Chinafied English words

I love it when Chinese netizens get creative with language - and this time, they're using English. Sinosplice pointed out a list of "creative English (words) with Chinese characteristics" - basically phrases and words altered slightly to give them a new Chinacentric meaning. For instance, smilence: when you ask a question and all a Chinese person does is smile silently. Or Innernet: a GFWed computer network. Or, a little more morbidly, suihide, where you kill yourself by playing a hide-and-seek game ala that prisoner who died in Yunnan last year. Check out more here

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