During this year's Spring Festival, many young people feel like they have run out of words. Recently, a survey conducted by the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily in collaboration with the questionnaire website, involving 1333 young people, showed that 53.3% of the surveyed youth felt that their language and written expression abilities had declined in recent years. More than half of the surveyed youth believe that low reading volume and reliance on online language and emoticons are the main reasons for "word poverty". On February 27th, China Youth Daily reported that the Chinese language is broad and profound, with rich and colorful vocabulary, providing Chinese people with ample expression options. However, surveys have shown that many young people are increasingly unable to express their thoughts and ideas in Chinese, either not knowing how to say them, feeling a lack of vocabulary and vague meanings; Either they don't know how to write, forget their words when picking up the pen, or their words don't convey their meaning. Some people vividly summarize the phenomenon of declining language expression ability by using phrases such as "word poverty" and "aphasia in writing". Not only do young people feel "word poverty", but other age groups also have similar problems, such as the phenomenon of "poor vocabulary in middle school students' compositions", which has attracted attention. The reason for this is not only due to the accumulation of a small vocabulary, which leads to a lack of time for words to be used, but also related to the influence of the internet on language expression. Whether it's many children talking, writing essays mixed with internet slang, or adults using internet emojis to express themselves, it all indicates that everyone is deeply influenced by the internet. As the functions of the internet become increasingly powerful, many words and sentences that should have been memorized and expressed by humans have been memorized and expressed by the internet. For example, a word, a common saying, or a brilliant quote, when the first two words are inputted on a phone or computer, the following text is automatically generated, so there is no need for people to use their brains. When people are accustomed to communicating online through various online languages, the reduction of offline communication opportunities naturally affects their offline language abilities. In other words, today's young people are "poor in words" as a result of the gradual domestication of the Internet. As the internet increasingly replaces human brain and hand functions, and shifts people's social interactions from offline to online, word poverty is an inevitable result. If this situation continues to develop, as network tools become more intelligent, more and more people will suffer from "word poverty", and the situation of "brain laziness" and "hand laziness" will become more and more serious. It is somewhat gratifying that many young people have realized their "word poverty", which is the first step for them to overcome it. Because only by discovering this problem can we hope to avoid word poverty, and the key to avoiding it is to recognize the problem of online domestication and try to avoid being domesticated by the internet. This requires young people to re-examine their reading, communication, and lifestyle habits, and to make good use of the internet without being tamed into language giants. Experts also suggest that addressing the problem of "word poverty" requires starting from the perspectives of enriching cultural accumulation, improving cultural appreciation, and enhancing basic writing skills. These suggestions are worth listening to and adopting by young people. For the phenomenon of "word poverty" among primary and secondary school students, schools and families need to strengthen offline language and writing expression ability training. Not only should they be guided to stay away from bad internet slang, but a series of offline language expression ability training activities should also be carried out. The phenomenon of "word poverty" has actually attracted attention from relevant departments of the country. In 2020, the State Council issued a document on comprehensively strengthening language and literature in the new era
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