Let's start with a question.
Excuse me:
You're not good-looking, but you're on my aesthetic point.
Does this sentence count as PUA?
The high praise that was topped to the first place answered:
be.
But this actually makes some people wonder even more, is PUA so simple?
After Song Zu'er said that her boyfriend didn't want her girlfriend to go to a male dinner party can also be regarded as PUA, PUA finally caused disgust -
Don't get involved in everything PUA, thank you.
Tired.
How exactly do you distinguish between possessiveness, exclusivity, and PUA in intimate relationships? Don't want the other half to have more contact with the opposite sex, although it is not necessarily love, but it must be equal to PUA?
Wouldn't the word PUA be too casual?
PUA is a basket
There are three big one-size-fits-all terms for 2021: Lying Flat, Inner Roll, and PUA.
PUA is not just casual to use, but quite casual, and there is nothing that PUA cannot describe.
Better looking than anyone, big S said to little S: Isn't it since we were born that my sister has always been prettier than you until she grows up? What's the analogy, and when exactly do you want to flip?
Although Xiao S laughed after listening to it until his facial features were crowded together, this counted as PUA.
Wang Sicong chased sun Yining, and the other party did not reply to the message, so he asked a series of questions, PUA.
Sun ignored Wang Sicong and only used a perfunctory reply with a question mark to properly PUA.
Buy a milk tea queue for an hour, hi tea at PUA.
Let young people struggle, is the PUA of leeks.
Cats don't let shovel officer rua, scum cat PUA me!
The dog was very well-behaved at first, and now it is not good to drag, PUA real hammer.
The boss said what the staff do not work, people are ugly and touch the fish, PUA!
xxx TV series, how many times do you really want TO PUA viewers.
It seems that all unsatisfactory behaviors and oppressive words can all be put into the PUA basket.
Netizens laughed to death, now in this world, even PUA is rolled up.
Because the frequency of occurrence is too high, can cross all walks of life, and even break the species limit, whether it is human animals or inanimate organisms, everything can PUA, PUA in Douban # what are the popular concepts that are abused? #话题里, the list became the first abusive buzzword.
Buzzwords flood
If you go online enough, you'll find that abuse is the ultimate destination of buzzwords, and pua is just one of them.
The end of the universe is not Iron Ridge, it is buzzwords that are abused.
The abbreviations were on fire, so there were yyds everywhere.
A ctmd, I don't know whether it is a traditional virtue or a cordial greeting.
Where learning became manifest learning, everyone engaged in Versailles.
Wearing a rolex in his hand and reading in his mouth, the life of a rich man is so simple and boring.
As a student bully admitted to Tsinghua, if you dare to say that you are not satisfied with your grades and do not have to wash, you are in the mortal.
After the scumbag was beaten into the first victim of the new century on the Internet, no matter what kind of behavior the man did, he was a scum -
Eat without washing dishes? Scumbag.
Don't reply to WeChat for an hour? Scumbag.
520 No gifts? Scumbag.
Red envelopes only give 52 pieces? Scumbag!
Big aunt came to let you drink boiled water? Scumbag!
Language itself is variable and constantly changing with the development of society. But in the age of the Internet, when a word becomes a buzzword and is used by hundreds of millions of people, it changes particularly quickly.
Abuse is one example.
To be precise, the abuse of buzzwords is the continuous generation of new ways of use of words while maintaining fewer and fewer original semantic characteristics, the meaning is expanded indefinitely, and the use scenarios are increasing. General words will also appear semantic generalization, but popular words are fighters in generalization, and general generalization is no longer enough to summarize it, only to use - abuse.
The results of semantic generalization are mainly threefold:
The meaning of the word expands
Word meaning shifting
Emotional color changes
PUA also had normal semantic generalizations.
PUA is an abbreviation for pickup artist, called bubble learner, hook-up expert, and "sister-in-law", and it originally referred only to men who had undergone systematic learning, practice, and continuous self-improvement of emotional intelligence, and seemed to be a neutral word.
Later, the meaning was expanded, generally referring to people who are very attractive to the opposite sex, and they are still very neutral.
Later, the scope of use expanded, from the simple attraction of the opposite sex to the whole process of hooking up, attracting, establishing connections, intimate contact, and determining intimate relationships. The emotional color is still not bad.
After international students introduced PUA to the mainland, PUA became a methodological summary of approaching and talking to their favorite objects. Help those who are shy or inexperienced to master the interpersonal skills of how to build a relationship with the opposite sex they like as soon as possible.
But can't stop some people from thinking crookedly, since PUA is good for the opposite sex, then why not use it to get rich and find a few more members of the opposite sex?
So PUA has become a means and synonym for cheating money and color.
So far, the meaning and emotional color of PUA have changed, but it is still limited to the field of gender relations.
After the Peking University Mu Linhan PUA girlfriend Bao Li incident, the PUA connotation jumped out of the category of attracting the opposite sex, became mental suppression and control, and quickly became a national buzzword, embarking on the road of abuse and not turning back.
Now, if you don't like it at all, you can count as PUA. The scope of use is not limited to gender relations, relatives, girlfriends, friends, the workplace even between people and animals, can be used.
Some scholars have specifically studied the semantic generalization of popular words. A buzzword goes through three stages from generalization to abuse:
First: Semantic generalization within the same meme domain — direct imitation.
Simply put, it does not change the original meaning and conditions of use of the word, and directly follows the original sentence.
For example, arrogant body sentence making. Grasp the essence of the proud body "Since I mention privilege, then I will tell you where my pride is", "Speaking of which, my pride has been fully embodied".
Imitate writing a small essay can be ——
The second stage: semantic generalization across meme domains.
This stage is an important stage of buzzword abuse, where different people interpret buzzwords according to their own experiences and ideas, and create new use scenarios and meanings for buzzwords.
There are two main approaches, metaphor and analogy.
Let's use PUA as an example.
PUA originally only applied to gender relations, but because "suppression" also exists in other relationships, such as friends, superiors and subordinates, parents and children, etc., people who feel "oppressed" in these relationships directly appropriate the concept of PUA and call their feelings of being "suppressed" PUA.
This is the analogy mechanism of semantic generalization, because there is a certain similarity between the two, such as physical shape, appearance, function, or psychological and cultural similarity, which is appropriated by analogy across fields, and the scope of use of words is expanded.
The metaphorical mechanism also uses a certain similarity, but this similarity is more spiritual and depends on enlightenment.
Like what:
After school is called after class, spiritual people call dismissal and suspension also called class.
The person who is suppressed is PUA, and the cat who ignores the master is also PUA.
After the second stage, buzzwords have almost no rules to use, and everyone is becoming more and more unrestricted, more and more creative, and eventually leading to buzzwords becoming highly abstract symbols, moving towards the destination of all things can BE PUA.
However, this kind of PUA for everything is not a good thing, and it is even a language pollution.
All the negative phenomena in the process of language development can be called language pollution. After everything can be put into the PUA box, the seemingly semantically rich PUA is actually meaningless.
Linguist Chen Yuan proposed in "Language and Social Life": If in daily life, in our social life, there are many languages that look correct, but in fact do not convey any valid information, then what is the use of language?
Yes, it's useless.
When PUA has N meanings, communication cannot take place. Because the first thing to start a conversation might have to be defined like writing a paper:
Wait, what pua are you talking about?
As a word with a very serious connotation, the arbitrary abuse of PUA will also dissolve its own seriousness.
Murinhana is not just PUA, it is a crime.
The use of technology to cheat money is a scam.
Wang Sicong's pursuit of Sun Yining is not a PUA, it is a threat and coercion.
How can the "PUA" behavior of Heytea, which makes customers queue for an hour, compare with the above crimes, frauds, and coercion?
The sisters' playful diss and the boss's bullying of subordinates are not the same damage value at all. How can it be summed up with just one "PUA"?
As a Douban netizen said:
Now open douban Weibo a full screen PUA, what "parents used to do this to me is also PUA", "ex-boyfriend / boyfriend is not a PUA", "hindsight found that I am actually in PUA I am currently"... I'm really speechless and choking, can I not just learn a word and put it on myself? Don't dilute people's understanding of PUA harm with shallow experiences.
Behind the proliferation of buzzwords, there is also a bug that rejects the diversity of people and words, and puts all relationships and behaviors into a pattern.
If the appearance of the big S to the small S is PUA, the communication between people does not have a mutual diss friend model, which can only be praised and praised.
If accusations, verbal abuse, bullying, crime, repression, snubbing, disdain, marketing, and all other behaviors are replaced by PUA, the vocabulary will be less and less.
Whenever I want to write something, there are always people who feel that their vocabulary is too small. However, while talking about his vocabulary, he is unconsciously using buzzwords to cover everything.
Buzzwords are proliferating and are ruining our lives.
(1) Gao Changpeng, Wang Hong. Research on memetic semantic generalization of buzzwords[J]. Journal of Beijing Second Chinese University, 2011(02):18-22.