Another Short History of Linguistics (14)

Last time we talking about the character囧. Now, here is a combined symbol of alphabetic letters as ‘Orz’ it was invented by Japanese to represent frustration as it looked like:

This symbol stared from:

It looks like someone complain: “Oh dear me. Why do you do this to me?” Later it shifted to ‘Orz’ or ‘OTZ’.

Then the Taiwanese developed it as ‘囧rz’. As the meanings of囧developed very faster, someone said 囧 is a manner, 囧 is a philosophy; 囧 looks ordinary, yet when you watch the world with an eye of囧, it contains thousand words. 囧 is miracle, in the 囧 there is the exploring of the world; 囧 is 囧, other characters could not expressing one thousandth of its meaning.

Today there are so many chatting-room, blog and web page talking about the character 囧, some Asian countries call it as 囧 culture. People in that area talking about sadness, unlucky and helpless of the life. Someone even name their webs as ‘The Home of 囧’. A popular singer even uses O-R-Z for his lyric.

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