Recently, the Oxford University Press in the UK announced that the 2022 representative word "goblin mode" was elected first with an overwhelming victory, with a total of more than 300,000 people choosing the word, accounting for 93% of the total votes. The second place is the "Metaverse" metaverse, and the third place is "IStandWith", which means I support it, I think.
Official news released by Oxford Press said that this is the first time in history that English users have chosen their own vocabulary of the year. In two weeks, it has attracted more than 300,000 people to participate in the voting. The publisher believes that it can reflect the social atmosphere and public sentiment in the past 12 months.
reporter learned that in 2021, the annual representative word of Oxford Dictionary is "Vax", which means the meaning of vaccine ; in 2020, no single word was used to summarize it, and popular words such as bushfires (bushfires), WFH (working from home), and Black Lives Matter (Black Lives Matter).
The term "goblin mode" first appeared on an online platform in 2009 and became popular on social media in February 2022.
For this word, the Oxford Dictionary interprets it as: "a behavior of self-indulgence, laziness, sloppy and greedy without apologizing." Many people currently believe that it is close to what domestically means such as "showing up a bad person" and "lying down a flat person".
However, "goblin" has always been translated as "little monster", and "mode" means "mode". Why do two phrases come together and become "spoken"? What does "goblin mode" mean? Yangzi Evening News /Zi Niu News reporter consulted Wei Xiangqing , director of the Dictionary Research Center of Nanjing University.
To understand the meaning of this year's word, you can start with "goblin". Wei Xiangqing introduced that "goblin" is usually transliterated as "goblin" in the Chinese context. Before becoming an English word, it appeared in ancient French, Anglo-Norman , German and other languages. There are important roles in the myths and legends of England, Scotland , Ireland , Scandinavia, Iceland , France and other places.
The West's perception of the general image of the goblin is: it has dark green skin, red eyes, height between dwarfs and humans, has greedy and despicable personality, is evil, cunning and good at fraud, and is also afraid of spicy food. It mainly lives in the underground world deep in the dark, has a unique action order and system... It appears in works on different themes such as literature, games, movies, and animation.
Until now, the image of goblins has become increasingly polarized, but they all tend to be negative. One is despicable, cowardly, stupid and vicious creatures; the other is the cruel and bloodthirsty evil spirit .
So what does it mean after adding "mode"?
Wei Xiangqing told reporters that "goblin mode" is actually an English slang. The so-called slang usually refers to folk informal sentences, which are more colloquial and lifelike, and are generally used in informal occasions. English slang is a very common phenomenon. Combining two words to derive another meaning, such as "apple" Apple + "order" head = "apple order" in an orderly manner...
Wei Xiangqing noticed that Oxford Language Dean Casper Glaswal once said this to explain the meaning of "goblin mode": it encourages people to act unplanned, self-indulgent, and sometimes mischievously, "people are embracing their inner goblins."
From this, it can be seen that "goblin" mode” is a word with rich cultural connotation and characteristics, representing rejecting social norms or expectations. Using "showing up" in the Chinese context cannot accurately and completely reveal its rich cultural meaning. At present, no suitable word has been found to correspond to it.
Yangtze Evening News/Zi Niu News reporter Sun Qingyun
Proofreading Tao Shangong
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