Octra Bond’s World

Well. I heard about some new silly rule in China: its people are not allowed to use foreign languages especially English in their publications such as newspapers, books, and even web sites any longer. Its office gave a reason that using foreign languages would tarnish their Chinese language. If this is true, it must be RIDICULOUS. It seems to be a good idea to preserve their words, but anyone cannot use his pure native language in practice since our culture has been mixed in the modern civilisation. We well know that we generally use a lot of loanwords in everyday life. Furthermore, many technical terms in engineer, medical, science for example and many proper names cannot be thoroughly substituted because the limitation of language system. We also clearly see that China usually uses western numerals (0-9) and pinyin (pronunciation system based on Latin alphabet) in their context. So the new rule probably conflicts on their ways. In depth, it seems to be a dictatorial policy to block domestic information out of the country.

Read some news describing the case here.