Thursday, August 25, 2005
ORG -- Mafia styled walk and talk
By Tracy Wilkinson Times Staff Writer Wed Aug 24, 7:55 AM ET
ROME — The 53-year-old mother of five offers words of comfort to the man on the other end of the line.
"Stay calm, stay calm," she says to him, over and over. "Re-l-a-x."
"Thanks, dear," he says at one point in the conversation.
The woman is the wife of the gray-haired governor of Italy's central bank, one of the most powerful financial positions in the country. The man is not the gray-haired governor.
But he does hold another powerful position. And as the chief executive of Banca Popolare Italiana, Gianpiero Fiorani is the target of an investigation into whether he and three other businessmen conspired to finance a $10-billion takeover of another bank through illegal means.
Fiorani and the woman with the Lady Macbeth tendencies have become entangled in the Italian judiciary's investigative weapon of choice: wiretaps.
Investigators aren't the only ones listening in. Widely published transcripts of the conversations, and those of other bank executives and several real estate tycoons — laced with risque jokes, lovey-dovey cooing and political intrigue — have exploded into a sizzling summer scandal of soap-operatic proportions.
Italians can't get enough of it, titillated by a glimpse of the elite's dirty laundry.
Electronic snooping designed to snare terrorists and Mafia kingpins is trapping some unexpected prey. Surreptitious listening is now so common in Italy that people with little or no connection to criminal cases have found themselves recorded and their private utterings made public in newspapers.
In a new study titled "No Secret," the Italian think tank Eurispes estimated that the government had spent $1.6 billion on nearly 200,000 phone call intercepts in the last five years. Millions of people could have been overheard, the group said.
Although some of the numbers may be overstated, no one disputes the high volume. One of Italy's largest cellphone companies complained this year that government-ordered taps — 7,000 at one time — had maxed out its technological capacity.
With their historical mistrust of authority and only-tentative social contract with the state, Italians appear transfixed by the scandal and not particularly outraged at the prolific bugging.
Social commentator Beppe Severgnini said Italians were fascinated because the revelations confirmed so much of what they already suspected was going on. As long as dirt is being dished, they'll put up with things — what Severgnini called a kind of "nasty trade-off."
"Italians have a deep-rooted wariness and diffidence toward people in power," said Severgnini, author of "The Italian Mind," a tongue-in-cheek look at the country's mores. "We can overlook [invasion of privacy] when privacy is a screen behind which lots of unsavory things happen."
Plus, in a country that has endured Mafia atrocities, rampant corruption and decades of terrorism of every stripe, Italians see that wiretapping gets results. Law enforcement officials argue that electronic eavesdropping is a relatively inexpensive, safe and sanitized way to fight crime and foil subversive plots.
Suspected terrorists have been heard discussing suicide bombings and chemical warfare, often in code. Crooked soccer players have talked about whether to throw a game. Businessmen have outlined creative accounting procedures that eventually brought down major companies. Gangsters have planned hits, courted their girlfriends, offered money to receptive politicians and explored new ways to run their business.
After wiretaps more than a decade ago helped capture one of Cosa Nostra's top bosses, Salvatore "The Beast" Riina, investigators kept listening — and discovered an entirely new Mafioso MO.
"The toy is broken," one of Riina's lieutenants said. "Yes, things are changing," said another. "We must get the toy back on its feet. But with time, time and patience."
Today, Riina's successor, and Italy's most-wanted fugitive, Bernardo "The Tractor" Provenzano, avoids the phone and communicates with his henchmen through handwritten notes. Just this month, however, another fugitive was captured after he phoned his mother.
Italian law requires a prosecutor or police investigator to obtain permission from a court to eavesdrop or monitor phone traffic. But the permits are granted routinely for a long list of possible offenses, and Italian land-line and cellular phone companies cooperate — and are reimbursed for their efforts — making the process fairly simple.
Once transcripts of the recordings are supplied to defense attorneys, it is not illegal to publish them.
Italian law enforcement officials, judges and prosecutors say eavesdropping has proved to be their most valuable tool in building court cases. From murderous mobsters to pedophiles to, most recently, a suspect in the failed July 21 bombings in London, the ability to listen in has been vital, officials say.
"Maybe we are the country where tapping is most used," said Armando Spataro, a veteran prosecutor who has been going after suspected terrorists for years, "but we are also a country with a great many dangerous criminal organizations."
Some Italians wonder now whether the tool is being abused.
"It is a little bit out of control," said Tana De Zulueta, a leftist senator and member of the parliamentary Human Rights Commission. She does not oppose wiretaps but wants their fruits handled more discreetly.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi weighed in on the banking scandal, saying he was shocked — shocked! — at the revelations of private conversations. Interrupting his summer holiday at his opulent estate in Sardinia, he demanded laws to tighten wiretaps' use. His horror, directed more at the content than the practice, was manifested after his own name came up in some of the tapes.
"We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband," Berlusconi said.
In calling for restrictions, Berlusconi said such surveillance should be limited to terrorism and Mafia cases, and he advocated jail terms of up to 10 years for anyone who leaked or published wiretap transcripts.
Central bank Gov. Antonio Fazio would probably agree with Berlusconi's call for limits.
He is not the target of a criminal investigation but suddenly finds his 40-year career on the line because of comments he and his wife, Cristina Rosati, made in what they thought was the privacy of their home. Little did they dream their line was being tapped.
Transcripts suggest Fazio, 68, may have favored Fiorani and the Italian investors over a major Dutch bank, even though his position, which is a lifetime appointment, requires him to serve as a neutral arbitrator.
The conversations between the two men are familiar, chatty. "Faced with our threatening response," Fiorani tells Fazio, whom he calls Tony, "the prospects are looking good." "We cannot afford a single misstep now," Fazio responds.
Later, Fazio tells Fiorani, ahead of any public announcement, that the deal to take over the other bank has succeeded.
"Tony, I'm overwhelmed with emotion, I have goose bumps," Fiorani says. "Thank you, thank you. Tony, I would kiss you on the forehead if I could."
In other transcripts, it is not Fazio but his wife, Rosati, who is having cozy, late-night talks with Fiorani.
"It's going fine … there are no problems," she tells him after he has fretted about the progress in the bank battle.
What comes across in Rosati's conversations is the picture of a wife far more involved in the inner workings of Italy's top financial institutions than is normal. Rosati can be heard advising, scolding — one minute offering intimate reassurances to a man not her husband and the next plotting petty revenge against anyone who crosses him.
In one of her conversations, she is heard talking to a priest.
Another target of the investigation was Stefano Ricucci, an upstart Roman who made a fortune in real estate speculation and whose efforts now to buy into established Italian businesses have roiled the traditional elite. He is regarded as one of a new breed of nouveaux riches, the kind who marry starlets and live ostentatiously.
Ricucci, 43, is heard discussing business in salty street slang that, to many Italians, confirms his lowbrow roots.
Complaining that prosecutors are holding up his efforts to take over the bank, he says, "It's not like we tortured a child." Of special delight to voyeurs was a telephone text message sent to him by his new wife, Anna Falchi, an actress and pinup model.
"I am the happiest woman in the world," she gushes, "because I have you MY GREAT LOVE I LOOOVE YOU, got it?"
All of the people involved in the bank takeover scandal have denied wrongdoing, or refused public comment, and the debate over wiretapping — when, who and how much — goes on.
Evidence from wiretaps was used in the "Clean Hands" upheaval of the early 1990s, when corruption brought down the government and most political parties, and again this year, when Italian prosecutors drew up arrest warrants for 19
CIA operatives accused of kidnapping a radical Muslim cleric in Milan.
"If we can't use wiretapping, it would be tragic," said Palermo-based Judge Silvana Saguto, who has used the technique to catch Mafia fugitives and drug traffickers. "It is very important to listen to their conversations and arrest the criminals involved."
Associates of Berlusconi have suggested that the transcripts were leaked (maybe even doctored) by a judiciary hoping to embarrass the prime minister and his economically powerful right-wing friends.
De Zulueta, the leftist senator, said the restrictions Berlusconi proposed would hamper other important investigations — into government corruption, for example. And Spataro, the prosecutor, said checks were already in place to prevent abuses, such as time limits on authorization of the taps.
Rosati might have had the best solution.
In one of her last recorded conversations, she tells a friend who has called, "Let's be careful, it's better to speak in person."
The phone, she says, is not safe.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
ORG -- peerlessly great articla
By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent 51 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Few can denounce the "imperialist ogre" or "kingpin of evil" as well as the writers at North Korea's official news agency, and a California graphic artist is now cataloguing their rhetorical masterpieces on a Web site.
Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, is the only regular source of the views of the secretive government of Kim Jong-il available to diplomats, journalists and scholars.
But there was no way for them to search the archives of KCNA until Geoff Davis, fighting boredom during a rainy San Francisco spring, decided to hone his Web design skills on a topic he had followed in news reports on the North Korean nuclear crisis.
"Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn't find an existing searchable database of the KCNA on the Web. Thus, NK News was born," Davis told Reuters.
Launched in May, www.nk-news.net boasts of having nearly every KCNA article since December 1996 -- "over 50 megabytes of hard-core Stalinist propaganda ... each article written in the unique and indelible style of the KCNA."
Readers can get a taste of that KCNA style from recommended key word searches, such as "burning hatred," which turns up 18 articles. The targets of that hot wrath include Japan, Yankees, "U.S. imperialist ogres" and "class enemies."
"Human scum" yields 25 KCNA reports applying that epithet to U.S. President George W. Bush, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and diplomat John Bolton. Rumsfeld also keeps company with Japanese officials in the "political dwarf" category.
RANDOM INSULT GENERATOR
The flip-side of withering scorn for North Korea's perceived foes is fawning praise for Kim and his father, state founder Kim Il-sung. Kim Il-sung, who died in 1994, is hailed as a "peerlessly great man" in 139 articles since 1996.
"Inveterate" is another popular KCNA word and a search for it returns an entry describing "U.S. imperialists" as "a pack of beasts in human skin and the inveterate enemy with whom the Korean nation cannot live under the same sky."
"From browsing through the KCNA's propaganda, even the most casual observer can see that the regime is a cult," said Davis, 31, who makes his living producing graphics for court trials.
Davis took 10 weeks to build www.nk-news.net, which he calls a "hobby site," and spends $10 (18 pounds) a month to run it. He said he doesn't count page visits but he has tallied 5,000 searches and has received positive feedback from journalists and experts on North Korea.
For those seeking a comic diversion from blood-curdling diatribes and self-congratulatory reports, Davis created a "random insult generator" using pejorative words commonly found on KCNA.
"You loudmouthed beast, your ridiculous clamour for 'human rights' is nothing but a shrill cry!" reads one insult. One click later and the message is: "You sycophantic stooge, you have glaringly revealed your true colours!"
Although he has found a source of satire in a country that is mostly known for weapons threats, repression and famine, Davis does not joke about North Korea's nature and says the world must not cut Kim's government any slack.
"The 'axis of evil' remark pales in comparison to a single day of KCNA rhetoric," he said, referring a controversial 2002 Bush speech that lumped North Korea, Iran and prewar Iraq a trio of malign countries.
Monday, August 08, 2005
For Peter Jennings who often delighted in presenting the opinions of those in the minority
Peter Jennings, Urbane News Anchor, Dies at 67
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Peter Jennings, a high school dropout from Canada who transformed himself into one of the most urbane, well-traveled and recognizable journalists on American television, died yesterday at home. He was 67 and lived in Manhattan.
The cause was lung cancer, said Charles Gibson, who announced the death of his colleague on television in a special report just after 11:30 p.m. Mr. Jennings had disclosed that he was suffering from lung cancer on April 5, first in a written statement released by ABC and later that night on "World News Tonight," the evening news broadcast that he had led since September 1983.
In brief remarks at the end of that night's program, Mr. Jennings, his voice scratchy, told viewers that he hoped to return to the anchor desk as his health and strength permitted. But he never did.
It was a jarring departure for someone who for so long had been such a visible fixture in so many American homes each night. Along with the two other pillars of the so-called Big 3 - Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS - Mr. Jennings had, in the early 1980's, ushered in the era of the television news anchor as lavishly compensated, globe-trotting superstar. After Mr. Brokaw's departure from his anchor chair in December, followed by the retirement from the evening news of Mr. Rather in March, Mr. Jennings's death brings that era to a close.
For more than two decades, the magnitude of a news event could be measured, at least in part, by whether Mr. Jennings and his counterparts on the other two networks showed up on the scene. Indeed, they logged so many miles over so many years in so many trench coats and flak jackets that they effectively acted as bookends on some of the biggest running stories of modern times.
Mr. Jennings's official ABC biography notes, for example, that as a foreign correspondent, he was "in Berlin in the 1960's when the Berlin Wall was going up," and there again, as an anchor, "in the 1990's when it came down." Similarly, he was on the ground in Gdansk, Poland, for the birth of the Solidarity labor and political movement, and later for the overthrow of the country's Communist government.
In addition to reporting from nearly every major world capital and war zone, Mr. Jennings also managed to report from all 50 states, according to the network. He seemed to draw on that collective experience - as well as his practiced ability to calmly describe events as they unfolded live - not long after two hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Over the course of that day, and those that immediately followed, he would spend more than 60 hours on the air in what Tom Shales of The Washington Post, among other critics, praised as a tour de force of interviewing and explanatory broadcast journalism laced with undisguised bewilderment.
"This is what it looked like moments ago," Mr. Jennings said at one point that first morning, as he introduced a piece of videotape recorded moments earlier in Lower Manhattan. "My God! The southern tower, 10:00 Eastern Time this morning, just collapsing on itself. This is a place where thousands of people worked. We have no idea what caused this."
The coverage of all three broadcast networks that week underscored a maxim of the television news business: that however much the audience of the evening news programs might have eroded in recent years, viewers usually return during moments of crisis.
"He was a man who came into the anchor chair absolutely prepared to do the job, from years and years of reporting in the field, which is precious and not easily duplicated," said Tom Bettag, who competed against Mr. Jennings as executive producer of the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" and later worked with Mr. Jennings as a colleague as executive producer of "Nightline."
"He established a level of trust with the viewer that would be difficult for anyone else to match going forward."
At the peak of his broadcast's popularity, in the 1992-1993 television season, Mr. Jennings drew an average audience of nearly 14 million people each night, according to Nielsen Media Research. He reached that milestone midway through an eight-year ratings winning streak, during which his audience sometimes exceeded those of both Mr. Brokaw and Mr. Rather by two million or more viewers. (For nearly a decade since, to his periodic frustration, his broadcast had lagged behind that of NBC's, even after Mr. Brokaw yielded to Brian Williams in December.)
Though the audience for the evening news has fallen precipitously in recent years - a casualty of changes in people's schedules and the competition offered by the cable news networks and the Internet - Mr. Jennings's broadcast and those on CBS and NBC still drew a combined audience of more than 25 million viewers this past year.
And however much his audience had aged - the median age of a Jennings viewer this past season was about 60, according to Nielsen - advertisers still spend in excess of $100 million annually on each of the evening news programs. Like Mr. Brokaw, Mr. Rather and now Mr. Williams, Mr. Jennings was well paid for his efforts: he earned an estimated $10 million a year in recent years. His most recent contract with the network was due to expire later this year , but at least until he became ill, the network was preparing to extend Mr. Jennings's time in the anchor chair for "several years to come," according to David Westin, president of ABC News.
Mr. Jennings's broadcast training had begun at an astonishingly young age, a function at least partly of his family background. Peter Charles Jennings was born July 29, 1938, in Toronto. His father, Charles, was a senior executive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and a pioneer in Canadian radio news.
In "The Century" (Doubleday, 1998), one of two history books that he co-wrote with Todd Brewster, Mr. Jennings recalled an early exercise that his father put him through to sharpen his powers of observation. "Describe the sky," his father had said. After the young boy had done so, his father dispatched him outside again. "Now, go out and slice it into pieces and describe each piece as different from the next."
By age 9, he had his own show on Canadian radio, "Peter's Program." He dropped out of high school at 17, and by his early 20's, was the host of a dance show similar to "American Bandstand" called "Club Thirteen."
His rise to the pinnacle of Canadian television news, and later its far larger counterpart to the south, was swift. In 1962, at age 24, he was named co-anchor of the national newscast on CTV, a competitor of his father's network, a job that he held until 1964.
That year, he moved to the United States to begin work as a correspondent for ABC. Barely a year later, the network named him an anchor of "Peter Jennings With the News," then a 15-minute newscast, which put him, at age 26, head-to-head with Walter Cronkite on CBS and the formidable tandem of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC. Though he would serve ABC in that capacity for nearly three years, Mr. Jennings said in an interview last year that he was ill-suited for the job and unhappy in it.
"I had the good sense to quit," he said.
What followed was more than a decade of postings abroad as a foreign correspondent for ABC, during which, Mr. Jennings said last year, he got an on-the-job introduction to the world with a tuition bill effectively footed by his employer.
"I have no formal education to speak of," Mr. Jennings said. "ABC has been my education and provided my education. ABC has enabled me to work everywhere in the world and has ended up paying me beyond handsomely."
From 1968 to 1978, Mr. Jennings traveled extensively, including to Vietnam, Munich (where he covered the hostage-taking and killings at the 1972 Summer Olympics) and Beirut (where he established the network's first news bureau in the Arab world).
In 1978, he began his second tour as an anchor for the network, serving as one of three hosts of "World News Tonight," along with Frank Reynolds and Max Robinson, in a format devised by Roone Arledge, the sports programmer who had added the news division to his portfolio. Mr. Jennings was the program's foreign anchor and reported from London until 1983.
Three weeks after Mr. Reynolds died following a battle with bone cancer, Mr. Jennings was named the sole anchor (and senior editor) of the broadcast, titles that Mr. Jennings continued to hold at his death.
As an anchor, Mr. Jennings presented himself as a worldly alternative to Mr. Brokaw's plain-spoken Midwestern manner and Mr. Rather's folksy, if at times offbeat, Southern charm. He neither spoke like many of his viewers ("about" came out of his mouth as A-BOOT, a remnant of his Canadian roots) nor looked like them, with a matinee-idol face and crisply tailored wardrobe that were frequently likened in print to those of James Bond.
Though his bearing could be stiff on the air (and his syntax sometimes criticized as being so simplistic as to border on patronizing), Mr. Jennings was immensely popular with his audience.
During a trip last fall through Kansas, Pennsylvania and Ohio in the weeks before the presidential election, he traveled at times aboard a coach customized by the news division to trumpet its campaign coverage and frequently received a rock star's welcome when he decamped.
For example, in the parking lot of a deli just outside of Pittsburgh, where he had come to interview a long-shot candidate for Congress whose threadbare headquarters was upstairs, Mr. Jennings found himself on the receiving end of several hugs from loyal viewers.
"He's so handsome," one of those viewers, Vilma Berryman, 66, the deli owner, observed immediately after meeting him. "He's taller than I thought. He speaks so softly."
"I feel like I know him," she added. "He's just so easy."
Like all of the Big 3, Mr. Jennings was not without his detractors. Some critics contended he was too soft on the air when describing the Palestinian cause or the regime of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro - charges he disputed. Similarly, a July 2004 article in the National Review portrayed him as a thinly veiled opponent of the American war in Iraq.
The article quoted Mr. Jennings as saying: "That is simply not the way I think of this role. This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public."
Mr. Jennings was conscious of having been imbued, during his Canadian boyhood, with a skepticism about American behavior; at least partly as a result, he often delighted in presenting the opinions of those in the minority, whatever the situation.
And yet he simultaneously carried on an elaborate love affair with America, one that reached its apex in the summer of 2003, when he announced that he had become an American citizen, scoring, he said proudly, 100 percent on his citizenship test.
In a toast around that time that he gave at the new National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, he described his adopted home as "this brash and noble container of dreams, this muse to artists and inventors and entrepreneurs, this beacon of optimism, this dynamo of energy, this trumpet blare of liberty."
Mr. Jennings's personal life was at times grist for the gossip pages, including his three divorces. His third wife, the author Kati Marton, whom he married in 1979 and divorced in 1993, is the mother of his two children, who survive him. They are a daughter, Elizabeth, and son, Christopher, both of New York City. He is also survived by his fourth wife, Kayce Freed, a former ABC television producer whom he married in December 1997, and a sister, Sarah Jennings of Ottawa, Canada. Having prided himself on rarely taking a sick day in nearly 40 years - and being dismissive, at times, of those well-paid colleagues who did - Mr. Jennings had missed the broadcast and the newsroom terribly in recent months.
In a letter posted on April 29 on the ABC news Web site, excerpts of which were read on that night's evening news, Mr. Jennings described how treatments for his cancer had proven more debilitating than he had expected.
"Yesterday I decided to go to the office," he wrote. "I live only a few blocks away. I got as far as the door. Chemo strikes."
"Do I detect a knowing but sympathetic smile on many of your faces?" he added.
About a month later, Mr. Jennings did make a rare visit to the ABC News headquarters on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. With a gray sweater draped over his shoulders, and his feet clad in thick wool socks and moccasins, Mr. Jennings held court for about a half hour late one morning from his desk, in what is known as "the rim," a newsroom one floor below the "World News Tonight" anchor desk.
His voice soft and his body as much as 20 pounds lighter than usual, Mr. Jennings told several dozen staff members who had gathered around his desk about the doctors and other patients he had been meeting and of a first-time radiation treatment that he had just received, according to one veteran correspondent who did not wish to be identified so as not to offend Mr. Jennings's family.
Mr. Jennings brought himself and many of his colleagues to tears when he turned to Charles Gibson, one of his two principal substitutes on the program, and thanked him for closing each night's broadcast with the phrase, "for Peter Jennings and all of us at ABC News." Mr. Jennings then put his hand over his heart and said, "That means so much to me," according to his colleague.
But whatever maudlin feelings were in the air quickly evaporated, Mr. Jennings's longtime colleague recounted, when the anchor brandished a familiar black calligraphy pen and began marking up the rundown for that night's broadcast. "No, that's not a good one," he could be overheard telling Jonathan Banner, the program's executive producer, about one segment. Of another, he added, "You want to move this higher up."
For his closest colleagues, the reassuring sight of the anchor-as-editor provided a fleeting moment of normalcy in what had been a disorienting and heartbreaking few months.
Monday, August 01, 2005
ICQ Styled Chinese Slangs
(Wenxue City) 上海话最新流行语
粢饭糕：又痴又烦又搞的女孩。
月抛型：隐形眼镜一种，又指每个月要换个恋爱对象的人。
排骨美女：以瘦为美的女性。
黑暗料理：路边食摊。
Old three old four：老三老四。
3.72平方：十三点不三不四。
根号3：尚嫌矮的男青年。
跟包：跟在后面拎包。跌停板：运气差到极点；绝对不受异性青睐。
死机：一时呆住了，反应不过来。本草纲目：又笨又吵又戆又木。
奥特曼：落伍的人（outman）。小花：花痴。
免提听筒：经常自言自语，没人爱听
(6Park)
看不懂不叫看不懂，叫--晕
不满不叫不满，叫--靠
见面不叫见面，叫--聚会
有钱佬不叫有钱佬，叫--VIP
提意见不叫提意见，叫--拍砖
支持不叫支持，叫--顶
强烈支持不叫强烈支持，叫--狂顶
不忠不叫不忠，叫--外遇
追女孩不叫追女孩，叫--泡妞
吃不叫吃，叫--撮
羡慕不叫羡慕，叫--流口水
乐一乐不叫乐一乐，叫--happy
跳舞不叫跳舞，叫--蹦的
东西不叫东西，叫--东东
别人请吃饭不叫请吃饭，叫--饭局
兴奋不叫兴奋，叫--high
特兴奋不叫特兴奋，叫--至high
有本事不叫有本事，叫--有料
倒霉不叫倒霉，叫--衰
单身女人不叫单身女人，叫--小资
单身男人不叫单身男人，叫--钻石王老五
蟑螂不叫蟑螂，叫--小强
被无数蚊子咬了不叫被无数蚊子咬了，叫--新蚊连啵
好看不叫好看，叫--养眼！
网上丑女不叫丑女－－叫恐龙
网上丑男不叫丑男－－叫青蛙
网上高手不叫高手－－叫大虾
网上低手不叫低手－－叫菜鸟
看帖不叫看帖――叫瞧瞧去
我”不叫“我”：叫“偶”
不错不叫不错 叫8错
去死不叫去死，叫74
亲亲你叫771，抱抱你叫881
气死我了――7456
喜欢不叫喜欢___叫稀饭
祝你快乐不叫祝你快乐.........叫猪你快乐
就是不叫就是，叫94
是啊不叫是啊，叫42
是不叫是，叫素
不要不叫不要――叫表
偶：我
kick your ass：踢你的PP
FT，分特：faint的简称，晕倒。
统一：刷墙，扫楼的同义词。也就是整个版面都是你的回复，一种被谴责的行为。
XXXX的说：一种动词后置，比如吃饭的说
XXXXing：XXXX进行中，正在XXXX。比如上网ing
PP：照片，但如果是说打PP，那就是kick your ass的意思了
kick your ass：打你屁屁
BT：变态。和浮云的其他版块相比，水版是个BT出没的地方 扁他（她、它）
SL：色狼。浮云的特点是，狼多也MM多
GF：girl friend，女友
BF：boy friend，男友
kao，靠，拷：粗口，慎用
MD：粗口，特别慎用！
TMD： 粗口，特别慎用！
TNND：粗口，特别慎用！
JJWW：唧唧歪歪，指人说话的样子
JR：贱人
SJB：神经病
PMP：拍马屁
MPJ：马屁精
kick：扁
slap：打耳光
KH：葵花，就是练葵花宝典的高手，浮云某高手已练至化境，人皆不呼其名，而直呼KH。
KHBD：葵花宝典
PXJF：辟邪剑法，源于KHBD，KH专用的剑法
SP：support，支持
的微：一种语气助词，KH专用
呼呼，猪猪：睡觉
稀饭：喜欢
果酱：过奖
BXCM：冰雪聪明
LOL：Laugh Out Loud，大笑
KFC：Kxxx & Fxxx & Cxx,要是和某人有仇，就KFC他吧
PK：player kill，砍人，攻击，也可解释为先批后K
btw：by the way，顺便说一句
PS：两种意思，btw或者photoshop（一种电脑修图软件）
CU：see you，再见
BB：宝贝，情人，孩子，byebye，看具体使用
走召弓虽：超强
酱紫：这样子
饭饭：吃饭
片片：照片
斑竹，板猪：版主，论坛版块的管理人员，把水版比作个小店，他们就是店小二。
水桶，水鬼，水仙，水王，水母：指灌水狂人，水母特制女性
水手：版中的芸芸众生
潜水员：就是那些喜欢看别人灌水自己不灌水的家伙
沙发，safa：第一个回贴子的人
椅子：第二个回贴子的人
板凳：第三个回贴子的人
抓狂：受不了刺激而行为失常
腐败：就是吃饭的意思
THX，3X,3Q：thanks，谢谢
sigh：叹息
cool：酷
pm：论坛的私信
zip it：闭嘴
DL：download，下载
PUB：网路上扫描到的ftp，可以临时起上传下载功能，也指把文件传到pubftp上共享的行为。
BRB：Be right back，马上回来
TTYL：Talk to you later，再见，下次回头再谈
BBL：be back later 过会回来
包子：某人长得难看或者笨就说他包子
粉：很，非常
蛋白质：BD＋BC＋SJB
爱老虎油：I love U，我爱你
表：不要，比如表太好，不要太好的意思。
咣当：晕倒发出的声音
猪娃：CCF传过来的口语，好孩子
爆头：游戏中引来的词汇，把某人打得脑袋开花
4242：是啊是啊
748：去死吧
886，88：再见
847：别生气
987：就不去，就不去
55555：哭
XXX：儿童不宜的东西
blah-blah：反复说
厚厚，吼吼，咔咔，kaka，嘻嘻，xixi：语气助词
互联网常用语 (via Wiki)
问候类
* CU:SEEYOU
* CYA:SEEYOU
* RUOK:ARE YOU OK?
* IOWAN2BWU:I only want to be with you
* M$ULKeCraZ:Miss you like crazy
* OIC:Oh,I see
* CUL8R:see you later
其他类
* BTW:By the way/between
* IMO:In my opinion
* BS:Bullshit
* WTH:What the hell
* j/k:Just kidding
* lol:Laugh out loud
黑客风格
* l33t:elite
* 5P34k:speak
* n080DY:nobody
* me$$4gEb04rD :messageboard
中国互联网常用语相互称呼类
* 偶:即“我”。是“我”去声母的读法。
* 美眉:即“妹妹”。是“妹妹”连续变调的读法。
* MM:妹妹
* GG(GeGe):哥哥
* JJ(JieJie):姐姐
* DD(DiDi):弟弟
* GF(GirlFriend):女朋友，也是著名游戏最终幻想8(Final Fantasy VIII)中的召唤兽(Guardian Force)的简写。
* BF(BoyFriend):男朋友
* PLMM(PiaoLiangMeiMei):漂亮美眉
* PPMM(PiaoPiaoMeiMei):漂亮美眉的加强版——漂漂美眉
问候类
* 白白(谐音bye bye):再见，也作“掰掰”。
* RPWT(RenPingWenTi):人品问题(来自猫扑，猫扑为大陆影响最大的论坛之一)
* OICQ:oh,I seek you
* 3166:再见（日语：さようなら，英语拼音：Sa You Na Ra）
* 886:再见（英语：Bye bye lo）
* 3Q:Thank You
* 8K7:不客气
* PF:佩服
说起886这个词还是bb机时代的产物。由于当时的bb机只能够传数字，所以为了表达一些复杂的意思就衍生出了这样的代码。
还有一些较为流行的代码有：
* 1314：一生一世
* 520：我爱你
* 530：我想你
* 740：气死你
网民统称类
* SL:色狼
* 犬科:追逐女生，尤其是坛子里的MM
* 狼族:与犬科不同，作风比较正派。经常独自出没于论坛，虽然爱美色，但不死缠硬磨MM。
* 恐龙:长得不太好看的女生
* 老大:常被众人吹捧又常被众人暴打的人
* 楼主:一个讨论序列中发第一个帖子的人
* 楼上的:一个讨论序列中前一个发帖子的人
* n楼的：除了“楼主”以为的依次可称作“2楼的”、“3楼的”……“n楼的”
* 斑竹:版主之意，有时写作板猪等
* 板斧:版副之谐音
* BT:变态
* B4或BS:鄙视
* 马甲:已经注册的论坛成员以不同的ID注册的论坛成员.通常有多个.
* ZT3:猪头3
* ZT4:猪头4(借用流星花园杉菜语)
* 菜鸟:表示什么都不懂，即新手，新人，newbie
* MPJ:马屁精
* ODBC:哦大白痴
* 小白：“白烂”的暱称，指经常在网上无事生非的人。也可指“小白痴”。
有时候，小白也指“小白鼠”（尝试某种新鲜的事物诸如此类）；或者拥有Apple笔记本或其他Apple产品的人;小白有时侯也指canon出品的一只70-200F2.8L镜头,特别是在摄影类网站上。
* XB:“小白”的“拼音化”
* SB:对某些人的蔑称(粗言)[即:傻逼(“逼”音同字不同)]
* LR:烂人
* LJ:垃圾
* JS:奸商
情感类
* 555:呜呜呜(哭声）
* 7456:气死我了
* 9494:就是！就是！
* SE:少恶
* BBS:波霸(Big-Breasted Sister)
* FT:faint的简称，也就是昏倒、厥倒地意思
* XD:大笑，笑到眼睛变成了叉。如果表示更强烈的笑一般在后边加多几个大写字母D。
* YY:意淫.我所知道的出处应该是《红楼梦》，后又经网络上的演化
* ze:贼恶(真恶心吧),真恶（贼：东北部分地区的方言。“非常”之意）
* 澳雪:(英语)Oh, shxx!(香港某个自称销量第一的沐浴露牌子)
* 表:不要.应该是因为将不要两字连读【buyao】而成（上海网民习惯使用）
* 靠:源自闽南语“哭”，但声调较强，作为粗鲁话使用。
* 倒:同晕倒
* 粉:“很”的音变，由台湾女生首先用开。
* 寒:表示惊讶
* 好康:源自台湾闽南语“好孔”。初为矿工用语，指品质优良的矿坑。后衍生其意为好的事情。
* 腊鸭:≈垃圾(来自《麦唛》)，“挂腊鸭”在粤语俗语中指“吊颈自杀”。
* 牛B:又作NB
* 如花:丑女.出于源自周星驰电影里面常出现的一个男扮女装非常雄壮还喜欢挖鼻孔的角色名称。
* 稀饭:喜欢
* 晕倒:夸张地表现。表示不可思议，难以接受
* metoo:我吐
* 酱紫:这样子的连音。台湾作“降子”、“酱子”等。
* 做人要厚道:一句大白话，语出电影《手机》里的台词
动作类
* 75:欺负
* PP:批批，可能是批评指正的意思.
* SF:沙发，就是第一个回贴，“First Post!”的意思。
* tjjtds:是“弹鸡鸡弹到死”的拼音简写，同样来自猫扑。
* ZC:支持。
* ZT:转贴。
* 灌水:又作“侃大山”，原指在网上聊天。现常指无意义的发帖或回帖。
* 考古:指回帖很老的帖子。
* 版聊：两个会员相互回帖在某帖子里聊天
* 砍大山:“侃大山”手民之误。“侃”是古汉语，意思就是聊天。
* 抛砖: 发贴，抛砖引玉之意
* 拍砖头:跟贴，常有欢迎批判之意
* 闪:离开
* 踢一脚:也是跟贴的意思吧？？（视具体情况而定，多表示有异议。“踩一脚”才是跟帖之意。）
* 路过:不用解释吧？
* 停车做爱:有点不雅，从“停车坐爱枫林晚，霜叶红于二月花”引申而来。
* 古的白:再见，从英语Goodbye音译。
其他类
* 874:打别人耳光。来自猫扑编号第874号GIF动画(图例 ( http://img.mop.com/images/face/874.gif ))。
* BC:白痴(Bai Chi)
* BS:鄙视(Bi Shi)
* js:奸商(Jian Shang)，原指坑骗顾客的商家，在大陆的网络上多用来特指IT业经营计算机配件、外设、整机的不良店主。
* pmp:拍马屁
* pmpmp:拼命拍马屁！
* pp:照片或“屁屁”(屁股)
* TMD:(骂人之语,禁止使用)
* TNND:(骂人之语,禁止使用)
* th:土豪(游戏中的常用语)
* 弓虽:强，这类词还有很多，反正左右边旁的都可以这样拆。只是“强”的用法比较多
* 纯净水:无任何内容的灌水
* 水蒸气:也是无任何内容的灌水吧
* 米：钱，没钱常写作“没有米”，也作“木有米”
台湾因特网常用语
* 白目：语出台湾鹤佬话，指人不知好歹。
* 38：语出台湾鹤佬话，指女子扭捏作态的样子。
韩国互联网常用语
* “즐”
* “아햏햏”：又作“亚行杏”，指经常在贴文作怪笑“아햏햏”的人。
* “쀍”─读作“bwerk”，是韩国歌用文熙俊在唱'I'这首歌时将"왜 날 Break!"这一句的"Break"唸成了"쀍"，为一些年青人所效法。但长时间的模仿使人生厌，而这些人也被称之为"쀍"。
* 又，经常将以上两句挂在口边的人、以及经常在数码相讨论区发表明星合成裸照、以及一切经常在网上无事生非的人，都统称为“Internet废人”。
(Bingfeng) Abbreviated slang used by young Chinese netizens. March 16, 2005.
pp = 片片(pian pian) = picture
mm = 美眉(mei mei) = girl (beautiful eyebrows)
ppmm = 漂亮美眉(piao liang mei mei) = pretty girl
fb = 腐败(fu bai) = dining out (corruption)
bt = 变态(bian tai) = abnormal
opa = 好的 = OK
ding = 顶(ding) = support, agree
3x = 谢谢 = thanks
88 = 再见 = bye-bye
286 = 落伍 = old-style, not trendy
ft = 晕 = faint
BB = 小孩 = baby
偶 = 我
分特 = faint
泥 = 你
东东 = 东西
史弟弟 = 傻瓜 (stupid 史努比的弟弟)
偶稀饭 = 我喜欢
(中国网络语言词典)
现在流行的“网语”的组成方式分为三类：
1、 由英文字母、数字组成。
例如：【B4】Before的意思。
【QQ 】网友对ICQ的爱称。
2、 出于对视觉感官的刺激而制作出来的符号。
例如：【Zzzz……】 在睡觉的意思。几个Z连在一起，是把漫画中描绘人打呼噜时发出声音的画法引入到了聊天室中。
【?-? 】是指人在笑的意思。用符号表达出自己的表情，很形象。
3、 谐音类。
1) 数字谐音。
例如：【3166】“撒优那拉”(日本语)再见的意思
【771】亲亲我。
【55555～】呜呜，他在哭
【886】 Bye-bye喽
【8147】不要生气
【7456】 气死我了
【94】就是
2) 汉语拼音的缩写。
例如：【MM】妹妹
【GG】哥哥
【BB】宝贝
组句：“TMD，7456，今天GG、MM都上哪了，一个也没来，我只好也886。”
“8147，BB。我来和你聊天。”
3) 汉字谐音。
例如：【班主】【斑竹】【版猪】【版竹】聊天站、论坛的管理人员。即版主。“她说做斑竹很荣耀，可以满足虚荣心，有成就感。”
【大虾】又称老鸟：指已经在网上呆了很长时间、对网络非常熟悉的人。
“大侠”的谐音，指计算机高手，有戏谑意。包括两层意思，一是一些水平较高的电脑爱好者因长期沉迷于电脑而弯腰驼背，形似大虾。一是网友称呼这些人时通常采用拼音输入法，由于“大虾”先于“大侠”出现，且诙谐幽默，故以谐音称之。
【瘟到】Windows的译名，带有极强的戏谑色彩，夸张地形容电脑像瘟疫一样传播迅速，人一旦接触不可解脱。如：“如果你是一个受虐狂，无时无刻都 想处在失望、焦急、狂怒、痛恨等感觉中，你就应该去买一台装有瘟到系列软件的PC机，从此你就可以永无宁日，并使你心理承受能力得到巨大锻炼。”
【瘟都死】
一些人对一种著名的软件Windows的带贬义和谐趣意味的汉字译音。如：“我说不会吧，我脑子里装的是‘比而该死’(比尔.盖茨)给俺定做的‘瘟都死’ （Windows）2500呀。她说别提‘瘟都死’了，我的‘瘟都死’的‘瘟’都没死，反而机子老死。”
【瘟酒吧】 Windows
98的谐音，带有谐趣色彩。如：“……运行时所需要的内存越来越多，加上瘟酒吧的作用，当打开的程序窗口稍多的时候，电脑的速度就如蜗牛爬了。”
【烘培机】homepage（个人主页）的谐音。
【酱紫】这样子的谐音。
“网语”是沟通方便的需要
《中国网络语言词典》的主编是北京广播学院播音主持艺术学院研究员于根元教授，他曾经担任过国家语委语言文字应用研究所副所长，目前是教育部“新词新 语规范基本原则”的第一负责人。他对记者说：“互联网是高科技，越是高科技的东西就得越有人情味。网语的出现是因为它是网民减少语言障碍、上网方便的需 要。”
当记者问道“‘网语’是否与我国的文字规范相悖”这个问题时，于教授说：“语汇系统如果只有基本词，永远稳稳当当，语言就没有生命力可言。语言在发 展，语言也需要规范，但规范是要推动发展，限制了发展的不是规范。”负责该书出版的《经济出版社》苏耀彬编辑认为，编辑这本词典可以使一些新网民较快地克 服词语方面的障碍，同时也便于有关人士了解网络用语，另外它也是社会语言学和新词新语领域的研究成果。
“网语”有它存在的空间
于教授说：“‘网语’是互联网的产物。在网络日益普及的虚拟空间里，人们表达思想、情感的方式也应与现实生活中的表达习惯有所不同，于是有的人创造出 令人新奇也令人愤怒和不懂的‘网语’。大部分‘网语’是网民为提高输入速度，对一些汉语和英语词汇进行改造，对文字、图片、符号等随意链接和镶嵌。从规范 的语言表达方式来看，‘网语’中的汉字、数字、英文字母混杂在一起使用，会出现一些怪字、错字、别字，完全是病句。但是在网络中，它却是深受网民喜爱的正 宗语言。
于教授强调说：“语言是用来交际用的，规范不能限制交际。语言的多样化也是生活的需要。‘网语’是鲜活的时代语言。”
“在现在年青人的生活里，像‘美眉（妹妹）’、‘GG（哥哥）’这些称呼已非常流行，它给我们带来了很多‘一本正经’所没有的乐趣。因此，‘网语’有它存在的意义。”
ORG -- Brown-skinned Subway Riders
You Can't Fight Terrorism With Racism
By Colbert I. King
Saturday, July 30, 2005; A19
During my day job I work under the title of deputy editorial page editor. That entails paying more than passing attention to articles that appear on the op-ed page. Opinion writers, in my view, should have a wide range in which to roam, especially when it comes to edgy, thought-provoking pieces. Still, I wasn't quite ready for what appeared on the op-ed pages of Thursday's New York Times or Friday's Post.
A New York Times op-ed piece by Paul Sperry, a Hoover Institution media fellow ["It's the Age of Terror: What Would You Do?"], and a Post column by Charles Krauthammer ["Give Grandma a Pass; Politically Correct Screening Won't Catch Jihadists"] endorsed the practice of using ethnicity, national origin and religion as primary factors in deciding whom police should regard as possible terrorists -- in other words, racial profiling. A second Times column, on Thursday, by Haim Watzman ["When You Have to Shoot First"] argued that the London police officer who chased down and put seven bullets into the head of a Brazilian electrician without asking him any questions or giving him any warning "did the right thing."
The three articles blessed behavior that makes a mockery of the rights to which people in this country are entitled.
Krauthammer blasted the random-bag-checks program adopted in the New York subway in response to the London bombings, calling it absurd and a waste of effort and resources. His answer: Security officials should concentrate on "young Muslim men of North African, Middle Eastern and South Asian origin." Krauthammer doesn't say how authorities should go about identifying "Muslim men" or how to distinguish non-Muslim men from Muslim men entering a subway station. Probably just a small detail easily overlooked.
All you need to know is that the culprit who is going to blow you to bits, Krauthammer wrote, "traces his origins to the Islamic belt stretching from Mauritania to Indonesia." For the geographically challenged, Krauthammer's birthplace of the suicide bomber starts with countries in black Africa and stops somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. By his reckoning, the rights and freedoms enjoyed by all should be limited to a select group. Krauthammer argued that authorities should work backward and "eliminate classes of people who are obviously not suspects." In the category of the innocent, Krauthammer would place children younger than 13, people older than 60 and "whole ethnic populations" starting with "Hispanics, Scandinavians and East Asians . . . and women," except "perhaps the most fidgety, sweaty, suspicious-looking, overcoat-wearing, knapsack-bearing young women."
Of course, by eliminating Scandinavians from his list of obvious terror suspects, Krauthammer would have authorities give a pass to all white people, since subway cops don't check passengers' passports for country of origin. As for sweaty, fidgety, knapsack-bearing, overcoat-wearing young women who happen to be black, brown or yellow? Tough nuggies, in Krauthammer's book. The age-60 cutoff is meaningless, too, since subway cops aren't especially noted for accuracy in pinning down stages of life. In Krauthammer's worldview, it's all quite simple: Ignore him and his son; suspect me and mine.
Sperry also has his own proxy for suspicious characters. He warned security and subway commuters to be on the lookout for "young men praying to Allah and smelling of flower water." Keep your eyes open, he said, for "a shaved head or short haircut" or a recently shaved beard or moustache. Men who look like that, in his book, are "the most suspicious train passengers."
It appears to matter not to Sperry that his description also includes huge numbers of men of color, including my younger son, a brown-skinned occasional New York subway rider who shaves his head and moustache. He also happens to be a former federal prosecutor and until a few years ago was a homeland security official in Washington. Sperry's profile also ensnares my older brown-skinned son, who wears a very short haircut, may wear cologne at times, and has the complexion of many men I have seen in Africa and the Middle East. He happens to be a television executive. But what the hell, according to Sperry, "young Muslim men of Arab or South Asian origin" fit the terrorist profile. How, just by looking, can security personnel identify a Muslim male of Arab or South Asian origin goes unexplained.
Reportedly, after Sept. 11, 2001, some good citizens of California took out after members of the Sikh community, mistaking them for Arabs. Oh, well, what's a little political incorrectness in the name of national security. Bang, bang -- oops, he was Brazilian. Two young black guys were London bombers: one Jamaican, the other Somalian. Muslim, too. Ergo: Watch your back when around black men -- they could be, ta-dum, Muslims.
So while advocates of racial profiling would have authorities subject men and women of black and brown hues to close scrutiny for criminal suspicion, they would look right past:
· White male Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people, including 19 children, and damaged 220 buildings.
· White male Eric Rudolph, whose remote-controlled bomb killed a woman and an off-duty police officer at a clinic, whose Olympic Park pipe bomb killed a woman and injured more than 100, and whose bombs hit a gay club and woman's clinic.
· White male Dennis Rader, the "bind, torture, kill" (BTK) serial killer who terrorized Wichita for 31 years.
· D.C.-born and Silver Spring-raised white male John Walker Lindh, who converted to Islam and was captured in Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban.
· The IRA bombers who killed and wounded hundreds; the neo-fascist bombers who killed 80 people and injured nearly 300 in Bologna, Italy; and the truck bombings in Colombia by Pedro Escobar's gang.
But let's get really current. What about those non-Arab, non-South Asians without black or brown skins who are bombing apartment buildings, train stations and theaters in Russia. They've taken down passenger jets, hijacked schools and used female suicide bombers to a fare-thee-well, killing hundreds and wounding thousands. They are Muslims from Chechnya, and would pass the Krauthammer/Sperry eyeball test for terrorists with ease. After all, these folks hail from the Caucasus; you can't get any more Caucasian than that.
What the racial profilers are proposing is insulting, offensive and -- by thought, word and deed, whether intentional or not -- racist. You want estrangement? Start down that road of using ethnicity, national origin and religion as a basis for police action and there's going to be a push-back unlike any seen in this country in many years.
kingc@washpost.com
