中国语言禁忌LinguisticTabooEitherinEnglishorinChineseculture,disease,death,andphysicaldisabilitymayhorrifypeople.Sopeopledon’tliketomentionthesedirectlyinconversation.Therefore,theyareconsideredtaboos.InbothEnglishandChinese,deathisviewedas“departing”.InEnglish,wecanfindmanyeuphemismsfordeath,suchas“go”,“depart”,“departfromthisworld”,“gotoabetterworld”,“gothewaysofallflesh”,“passaway”etc.InChinese,wealsocanfindsimilareuphemisms:“去了”,“离开了我们”,“辞世”,“去见马克思了”,“归西”,“升天”,“上路”etc.InbothEnglishandChinese,deathiscomparedto“sleeping”,“sleep”inEnglishcorrespondto“正寝”，“长眠”，or“永眠”inChinese.Wordsdenotingterriblediseasearealsosourcesofhorror.InEnglish,peopledon’tliketotalkaboutterriblediseaseordiseaserelatedtosexualorgansdirectly.Forinstance,theyuse“V.D”insteadof“veneraldisease”;use“bigC”,“longdisease”,or”terminalillness”toreplace“cancer”.Abbreviationsareoftenusedtoalleviate---本文来源于网络，仅供参考，勿照抄，如有侵权请联系删除---theshockingeffect.Forinstance,SARSisusedtosubstitutetheterriblename“SevereAcuteRespiratorySyndromes”.InChinese,whenwetalktoapatient,wemaysay“你今天不舒服，别上班了”.Here,weuse“不舒服”insteadof“病”.Asasoldier,wemaysay“挂彩了”insteadof“伤”.Mentalillnessesarethoughtnottobementioneddirectly.Forexample,whenreferringtoamentalillness,wejustsay“alittleeccentric”or“alittleconfused”.EitherinChineseorWestern,peoplehavesympathyforone’sphysicaldisability.Ifsomeonelooksugly,wewillsayshe/helooksplain/ordinaryandwewon’tusetheword“fat”todescribeaman.Weonlyuse“heavilyset”or“ontheheavyside”.Ifagirlisthin,wewon’tuseskinny.Wejustsayslender,andwhenwerefertoacrippled,wewillsay,“physicallyhandicapped”.InChinese,ifoneisdeaf,wewillsay“耳朵背”,“耳朵有点不好”,“说话得近点”.InEnglish,itiscalled“hardofhearing”.Inbothcultures,peoplethinkthatcertainpartsofthebodyandtheexcretionofbodycannotbementionedindailyconversations.Theyareoftenconsideredtaboos.Forexample,inEnglish,therearesomanyeuphemismsforlavatory,suchas“washroom”,“restroom”,“bathroom”,“comfortstation”.Iftheywanttogotolavatory,theywillsay:“gotothebathroom”,“dotheirbusiness---本文来源于网络，仅供参考，勿照抄，如有侵权请联系删除---”,“answernature’scall”.InChinese,“厕所”isalwaysavoidedinpublicoccasion,onemaysay:“去一号”or“去方便一下”Discriminationagainstwomanisauniversalandunreasonablephenomenoninthesociety.Anditsreflectiononlanguageissexistlanguage.BothinEnglishandChinese,therearetracesofsexistlanguage.Unlessoneiscarefulenoughwithhis/herspeech,onemayeasilyoffendothersunconsciously.InChina,underthecontrolofstricthierarchyfeudalsociety,thefemaleswereregardedinferior.Theydependonmaleandweredominatedbymale.Sothediscriminationandprejudiceagainstwomenisthelong-termaccumulation,whichisinevitablyreflectedinChinese.Forexample,thesayings“妇人之见”,“头发长见识短”,“男子汉不和妇人一般见识”,“长舌妇”,etc,reflectthepejorativeattitudetowardwomen.Andtherearealsomanyderogatorytitlesforwomen,suchas“贱人”,“泼妇”,“母老虎”,“母夜叉”,“娘儿们”，“悍妇”etc.InChinese,thereisalsoracistlanguage.Forexample,“using“蒙古大夫”foranincompetentdoctors;using“小鬼子”forJapanese.“洋鬼子”,“大鼻---本文来源于网络，仅供参考，勿照抄，如有侵权请联系删除---子”forwesterners....
