Netizens have their fingers on new language

BEIJING - Netizens have become the biggest grassroots group of language creators of popular new Chinese words, according to a report released by the State Language Commission on Thursday.

"We live in the era of We-Media, which means everyone can create new words and make them popular through BBS or micro blogs," said Li Yuming, the director of the department of language information administration under the Ministry of Education and vice-president of the commission.

For example, you will be out of date if you do not know what yanggao ti, or lamb style, means, he said at the launch of the 2010 report Language Situation in China in Beijing on Thursday.