Chapter 3 "Miss" application essay

The word "Miss" has few strokes in Chinese, and it can be used in simple and traditional terms, but its meaning is complicated, and its fate is ups and downs. It is almost the same as the most popular "teacher" in today's social appellation. Those who are called "Miss" today mainly include the following categories: 1. Unmarried women; 2. Married women who, for various reasons, make the other party feel that they are still unmarried or do not know their husband's surname. And those whose husband’s surname is unknown; 3. Female practitioners in the service industry - only the front desk workers, taking restaurants as an example, all knowledgeable customers, waiters, ministers, cashiers, beer salesmen, etc., the background workers are not included here For example, such as female chefs, cleaners, and proprietresses, etc.; fourth, female practitioners in romantic or quasi-fengyue places.For example, sitting on the stage, waiter, mommy, backup dancer, accompanying singer, massage girl, shampoo girl, and so on.

Although Fengyue Place is also a service industry in the industry, it has a special feature, that is, the boundary between front work and back work is confusing.That is to say, when these places are in the "normal" business period, most of its staff, including the proprietress, belong to the front desk workers. Mommy) These two positions are still very clearly defined, but in principle, they can usually be called "Miss"; once the business is impacted by the outside world - such as the "anti-pornography" movement, the above-mentioned front desk workers will immediately collectively transform into "Miss". "Backstage workers", that is to say, immediately refuse others (mainly law enforcement officers) to call (accurately, "identify") themselves as "Miss".

To sum up, it is obvious that "Miss" has changed from a title to a profession or a title.The bad thing is that although there is no need for evaluation, this kind of occupation is an improper occupation in the mainstream value concept.Newspaper headlines sometimes simply use "Miss" instead of "prostitute" or "chicken", and "Looking for a Miss" has become synonymous with recruiting prostitutes.What's worse, as a noun, in terms of general trends, improper "Miss" is or has formed a large-scale coverage of legitimate "Miss"-if it is "subversive", that's all, the problem is serious The difference is that two "Miss" cannot be written in one stroke, and "coverage" has at least caused some major or minor confusion in the current social life. The only safe and reliable meaning of "miss" left today seems to be "woman".

The depreciation of "Miss" is felt by everyone.It said: the world is declining, and the honorific words in the past have become an indecent word.In fact, the word "Miss" in the vernacular is basically a result of civilization/Westernization.Its direct source is the borrowing of English Miss by the New Culture Movement.Interestingly, there happens to be a "Miss" corresponding to it in ancient Chinese.The foreign is used for China, the inside should be combined with the outside, and the use of doctrine has succeeded in one fell swoop.Although it has been endowed with the atmosphere of the times, because the literal meaning of "Miss" has not disappeared after all, some good people at that time thought that the degree of localization of "Miss" was too high, so they used the transliteration of "Miss"—opening the new literature movement to the end. In various Chinese texts before 1949, there were those who called "Miss" - "Miss Zhou is so fashionable today!" (Zhang Ailing's "May 4th Legacy"); That very beautiful Miss Yang asked me: 'That tall man, who is yours?'" (Ding Ling)?; "Miss" and both—"Dear Miss Su, sir Is it lovesickness?" (Qian Zhongshu)

Eileen Chang believes: "It is also fashionable to call an unmarried woman a 'Miss'".In fact, no matter calling an unmarried woman "Miss", "Miss" or "Miss", it was equally fashionable at that time.If you have to judge the best, I think Mr. Qian Zhongshu's favorite "Miss" is the best, because in addition to the words "xin and da", it also has the "elegance" of taste.The "Mies" chosen by Ms. Ding Ling is purely a phonetic transliteration, a bit incomprehensible, a bit masculine, and may even cause people to misunderstand that "Mies" is the name of "Mr. Smith".As for the "secret" that Eileen Chang and most authors used to use, not only does it not read "sweet", but it feels the eerieness of some kind of secret agency.

However, although people are controlled by words, the creators of words are still people.My personal experience on this issue is to strictly distinguish the boundaries of the part of speech of the same noun.For example, the improper "Miss" is a collective noun, and the proper "Miss" is a proper noun; the improper "Miss" is usually an uncountable noun, while the proper "Miss" is generally a countable noun.That is to say, when you want to use "Miss" to address a legitimate female surname, in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, please use the surname before "Miss"—"Miss Wang", "Miss Shen" Or "Miss Lee".Of course, if you are unfortunately in a romantic place due to some kind of force majeure, in order to keep your evening festival (not the old age, but specifically the "evening" morals), in addition to not squinting and sitting still, you must also You might as well try to ask the lady's surname or first name first (if you insist on not saying it, you can give her one on your own), and then from the beginning to the end, give the "Miss" around you as a collective noun a proper noun—"Wang" Miss, I can’t sing”; “Miss Shen, I can’t drink”, “Miss Li, I can’t even eat fruit”.

Whether it is "Miss in eyes but miss in heart" or "Miss in eyes but there is miss in heart", the most subtle "Miss" is always above the verbal, and the use of it is wonderful, with one heart.Sickness enters through the mouth, and misfortune comes out through the mouth. The world is dangerous, and everyone should take care of it.