Investigation report on street typos and traditional Chinese characters

Investigation time: April 18, 2010 (Sunday)

Investigation location: Market Street

Investigation target: Typos, traditional Chinese characters and other irregular use of words in public places such as street signs and advertisements.

Investigation process:

I specially conducted a survey with two other classmates on street typos. Although we are in the "Century of Culture" and everyone is literate, there are still many typos on the streets. In addition to stores using traditional Chinese characters to register their store names as trademarks, which is in compliance with the "Trademark Law", other typos and odd-shaped characters We discovered many more. For example: we found "copied" food at the entrance of a hotel, "inflated" tires for repairing tires at the entrance of a car repair shop, "for sale" at the entrance of a retail store, "decorated" at the entrance of a decoration store, etc.; some of them are deliberately done by the shop owners. Wrong spellings, such as: Glasses advertisement: "Ming" is amazing, medicine advertisement: "Cough" is urgent... Among all the irregular store signs on this street, 90% use traditional Chinese characters and typos. And all the signboards in one store were in traditional Chinese! Traditional Chinese characters and typos not only bring us a lot of inconvenience. And especially those typos are likely to spread wrong knowledge and have a negative impact.

Reflection on the investigation:

After walking around on the street, we found that there are still quite a lot of irregular words on the street, but there are still many pedestrians who don’t take it seriously after reading them. Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in the world and the most commonly used script in the world. There are a lot of Chinese characters, about 60,000 in total, and about 6,000 commonly used characters. Chinese characters have a long history. The oldest Chinese characters discovered so far are oracle bone inscriptions dating back more than 3,400 years ago. They are already very mature and developed characters. According to scientists' estimates, the history of Chinese characters is about 5,000 years old. Chinese characters are words that record Chinese language. It is the bond of unity of all ethnic groups in our country, a symbol of national unity, and a treasure of Chinese culture. We hope that people will pay attention to it, use the language and characters of the motherland correctly and standardly, and spread the excellent culture of the motherland.