Name: Gen Z 和 TikTok 如何改變我們的說話方式？ BBC 世界服務「全球故事」Podcast (How Gen Z and TikTok are changing the way we speak - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service)
Uploaded: 2025-11-07T10:36:38.000Z
Duration: 18 min 33 s

Hello, I'm Lucy Hockings from the BBC World Service.

哈囉，我是 BBC World Service 的 Lucy Hockings。

基礎數量詞

For many thousands of years, language has been changing here in the uk.

數千年來，語言一直在英國這裡演變。

The gradual departure from what became known as the Queen's English is a trend which has often been characterised as a threat to cultural identity.

逐漸偏離被稱為 Queen's English 的現象，常被視為對文化認同的威脅。

But with the advent of social media, the pace of change may be running away from us.

但隨著社交媒體的出現，變化的腳步可能已經失控。

像是「it's giving ris」、「no cap」這樣的說法。

These are all terms which we attribute to Internet culture and specifically to younger, millennial and Gen Z demographics.

這些都是我們歸因於網路文化，特別是年輕的千禧世代和 Z 世代用語。

Today, we're considering how the mass migration to living our lives online is having an impact on the spoken word in the real world.

今天我們要探討，我們大量線上生活化的趨勢，如何影響現實世界中的口語。

對牛津英語詞典也留下了印記。

Well, with me here in the studio today is former BBC journalist, author and linguist Sophia Smith Gaylor and Neil Edgeller, who is from BBC Learning English.

今天在錄音室和我一起的是前 BBC 記者、作家兼語言學家 Sophia Smith Gaylor，以及 BBC Learning English 的 Neil Edgeller。

Sophia, Neil, lovely to have you with us on the pod.

Sophia，Neil，很高興你們來到我們的播客。

Neil, last night I sat with my teenage kids, as I now know you did as well, and

Neil，昨晚我跟我青少年小孩坐在一起，就像我現在知道你也是一樣，

I'm hearing these words from you all the time.

And they were straight away like, mum, don't do it.

Don't use the words, don't embarrass yourself.

You will never come back from this at all.

Pretty much exactly the same conversation.

I've become aware of this whole range of vocabulary used by this generation that seems completely and utterly exclusive.

我意識到這一代人使用的詞彙範圍，似乎完全且徹底地排他。

And they find it funny when I try and use those expressions.

而且他們覺得我試圖用那些說法時很好笑。

If you, basically, you start using these words, you've.

如果你，基本上，你開始用這些詞，你就。

You don't have kids, but, I mean, you're so aware of how language is changing and you're even writing a book at the moment about linguicide.

你沒有小孩，但，我的意思是，你非常清楚語言的變化，而且你現在還在寫一本關於語言滅絕的書。

So linguicide is the phenomenon of a language disappearing and perhaps even dying or becoming extinct.

所以語言滅絕是一種語言消失，甚至可能死亡或滅絕的現象。

And this is happening around the world at an alarming rate.

而且這在全球範圍內正以驚人的速度發生。

So a language disappearing because it's been criminalized.

所以一種語言因為被定罪而消失。

戰爭、種族滅絕，其他明顯的例子。

But linguicide equally can be more covert.

但語言滅絕同樣可以是更隱蔽的。

So linguists also described a language becoming associated with shame and speakers being so ashamed of speaking that language, they begin to speak another.

所以語言學家也描述過一種語言會與羞恥感連結，而使用者因為羞於說那種語言，進而開始說另一種語言。

Neil，可以跟我們說說你的工作嗎？

You're creating content to help people learn English.

你正在創作內容來幫助大家學習英文。

We make videos and podcasts and web pages to help learners of English around the world at whatever level they are to teach them English, but

我們製作影片、播客和網頁，來幫助世界各地的英文學習者，無論他們處於什麼程度，教他們英文，但

also to help them to enjoy themselves in English.

同時也幫助他們享受英文的樂趣。

Well, language is obviously the social tool that we all use to communicate, but

嗯，語言顯然是我們用來溝通的社交工具，但

as we've already discussed, it's so different depending on the generation that's talking.

正如我們已經討論過的，這取決於說話的世代，差異非常大。

And we alter our language depending on who we're talking to when it comes to our kids and what we're seeing, particularly with the younger generations.

當我們跟孩子們說話，還有我們看到的情況，特別是年輕一代，我們會根據對象改變我們的語言。

Neil, what sort of words are you seeing emerge at the moment?

Neil，你現在看到哪些詞彙正在出現？

Now we're going to mention some of the words that we're not supposed to.

現在我們要來提一些我們不該說的詞。

So I think of all of the things I've heard recently, the most fascinating is this word skibidi.

所以我想，我最近聽到的所有事情中，最吸引人的是這個詞 skibidi。

That was the first one that came up at my dinner table as well.

這也是我餐桌上第一個出現的詞。

嗯，我不認為我能有效率地做到。

I can try and I get laughed at, but it's very, very fluid grammatically.

我可以試試看，然後被嘲笑，但它在語法上非常、非常流暢。

So, for example, I have heard the expression the skibidi Rizzler.

所以，舉例來說，我聽過「the skibidi Rizzler」這個說法。

Rizzler's connected to this word riz, which we may come on to talk about as well.

Rizzler 跟這個詞 riz 有關，我們之後也許也會談到。

But skibidi seems to be able to be thrown in almost anywhere and nobody, including my kids, can tell me what it really means.

但 skibidi 似乎可以隨意丟進任何地方，而且沒有人，包括我的孩子，能告訴我它到底是什麼意思。

I think that's part of the whole sort of exclusivity of each generation's use of language, to the point about exclusivity and saying, mom, please don't say this word.

我認為這就是每個世代語言使用獨特性的一部分，就像關於獨特性和說「媽，請不要說這個詞」一樣。

We should think of language speaking also as identity making.

我們應該把語言的使用也視為一種身份的建構。

So if you are in a subgroup and you use particular phrases to signify, I am part of this group, the minute you start hearing these phrases adopted outside of the group, it's not the in group language anymore.

所以，如果你屬於一個次群體，並且使用特定的詞語來標示「我是這個群體的一份子」，一旦你聽到這些詞語被群體外的人採用，它就不再是這個群體的語言了。

So it stops being the in group language of teenagers, for example, because Mum's using it, and

所以，它就不再是青少年的群體語言了，例如，因為媽媽在用，

then they'll just start using another one.

然後他們就會開始使用另一個詞。

But Sophia, what Neil and I are finding challenging is this is changing so quickly all the time.

但 Sophia，Neil 和我發現具有挑戰性的是，這一切變化得非常快。

I remember doing quite a kind of academic interview around the word riz when it was the Oxford Word of the Year.

我記得在 Riz 被選為牛津年度風雲字時，我做了一個相當學術的採訪。

The Oxford Word of the Year has been revealed and this year it's Riz.

牛津年度風雲字已經公佈了，今年的字是 Riz。

Now, if you've no idea what that means, don't worry.

現在，如果你完全不知道這是什麼意思，別擔心。

They might use it in a slightly patronising, ironic way, but.

他們可能會用一種有點居高臨下、諷刺的方式來用，但是。

But Neil's now saying they're using Rizzler.

但 Neil 現在說他們正在用 Rizzler。

See, I'm getting myself into all sorts of trouble here and all sorts of traps.

看看，我這樣讓自己陷入了各種麻煩和陷阱。

And if you think about in the past how languages developed and changed, a language will always change because our needs as people change and different and new things happen.

如果你回想過去語言是如何發展和變化的，語言總是會改變，因為我們作為人的需求在變，而且會發生各種新的事情。

And in the past, you may have lived in a remote village and the only language contact or contact you had with any kind of linguistic innovation would have been some trader rolling into town and then moving forward.

以前，你可能住在一個偏遠的村莊，唯一能接觸到語言創新或任何形式的語言革新，就是有商人來到鎮上然後離開。

如今，如果你正在接觸大眾傳媒。

In social media, you're actually seeing a very diverse array of different voices from around the world.

在社交媒體上，你實際上看到了來自世界各地各種不同的聲音。

I can be speaking to my nephews at home in New Zealand, a world away, it seems to me, and

我可以在紐西蘭的家裡和我的姪子姪女講話，對我來說，這似乎是天涯海角，而且

yet they're using the same words as my teenage kids here in London.

他們用的詞彙跟我倫敦的青少年小孩一樣。

That wasn't the case when we were younger.

And that's part of this homogenisation that social media brings, that the kids are using the same slang globally.

這就是社交媒體帶來的同質化的一部分，全球的小孩都在用一樣的流行語。

When I was at school, the words that we would use to describe a really bright person or a less bright person might be different from the words used by someone who was brought up in a different part of the same country.

我以前上學時，用來形容一個很聰明或不太聰明的人的詞，可能跟在同一個國家不同地方長大的人用的詞不一樣。

Neil, is it just video based social media or is there influence here around text sites and microblogging and things as well?

Neil，這只是影片為主的社交媒體嗎？還是文字網站、微網誌之類的也有影響？

And a lot of the new vocabulary that we've seen emerging over the last few years comes from blogging and from online communities communicating through text.

而且我們這幾年看到很多新詞彙，都來自部落格和線上社群透過文字溝通。

People are walking around and saying LOL and FOMO and YOLO to each other.

人們走在路上會互相說 LOL、FOMO 和 YOLO。

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