2008 Chinese Internet Slang Glossary，Part I

1.叉腰肌 chā yāo jī

Arm Akimbo Muscle

Definition: n. Satirize the National Football Team. It can also be extended to those who pretend to be experts.

Origin: During the 2008 Olympic Game, the president of the Chinese Football Association chastised members of the China Women Football Team for their lacking fighting spirit and technique, and believed that those girls were badly in need of exercising their “Arm Akimbo Muscle”, a term that confused all. From that time onward, “Arm Akimbo Muscle” became a smash phrase, and pranks material for numerous netizens. Certainly, the National Football Team lost their pants this year, and was basically a laughing stock, “Arm Akimbo Muscle” is just one of them.

e.g. : Football, fighting for the Arm Akimbo Muscle!

2.打酱油

Buy Soy Sauce

Definition: Expressing that one has no knowledge of some thing, or have no comments, an attitude of minding one’s own business.

Origin: From TV news, when a correspondent was interviewing a Guangzhou citizen about the Edison Chen Photo Scandal, the man said: “It’s none of my fxxking business, I just get out to buy soy sauce.”

Later, the phrase was widely used in reply posts and other things, adaptation became fashionable for a time, even derived Soy Sauce Group and other internet slangs.

e.g.: I know nothing about it, I’m a professional soy sauce buyer.

3.范跑跑
Run Run Fan

Definition: Describe that someone flees really fast, and in a innocent manner.

Origin: RunRun Fan’s true name is Fan Meizhong, born in Longchang, Sichuan Province. When the Wenchuan Earthquake happened, he immediately ran away from the classroom, leaving all his students behind. On May 22ed, he wrote a post on the Tianya Forum, bragging that: “I am a man of freedom and justice, but not a man who put others first, not a sacrificing kind of person. In the life and death moment, I’m only willing to consider sacrificing for his daughter, as for other people, even my mother, I would not care a bit in that kind of situation, It is not meaningful dying with you people!”

Because of this subversion of morality, he became a “star” on the internet.

e.g.: At a glimpse of sister Furong, I Ran Ran Faned right away.

4.俯卧撑

Push-up

Definition：Being inconvenient or unwilling to comment, in lieu of phrases like “路过 pass by”, “飘过 float by”.

Origin: 3 days after the June 28^th, Weng’an Incident, Guizhou Authority called a press conference to reveal the “truth” of the incident. When describing the situation of that day, official adopted the suspect’s testimony that, Li Shufen committed suicide, because when she was about to jump into the river, her friend Liu was doing push-ups on the bridge!

Several minutes later, Tianya Forum had a post, “I’m here to do some push-ups.” Overnight, “Push-up Posts” was everywhere on the internet.

e.g.: Stop fighting, why don’t we just do some push-ups?

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