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vague. I perceived that at least we should describe its behavior, characteristics,
living habits, or any other specialty in order to make our speech more logical
or reasonable.
Pei Pei described that the language generated through “word coinage” was like
“Mars Language”:
My languages produced through “word coinage” might not be comprehended
quickly by foreigners, because I usually translated Chinese into English as a
newly created word. For example, I would say “Record Sound Tape” to
represent tape. Words created through “word coinage” were like some “Mars
Languages” that were prevalent on the internet. You had to think for a while
and then you would be able to figure out what it meant. Some of them were
very strange and not comprehensible. For example, “ORZ” meant “Admire
Very Much.” It looks like a person, who is bending the knees and worshiping.
Pei Pei believed that the “restructuring” was not easy to use:
“Restructuring” was very hard for me. I was nervous and stressed when I
changed my plan in the middle of a sentence. I might require many in-class
practices in order to use this strategy naturally. This strategy might be useful
for those people who could react to a difficult meaning in a short time.
In the second interview, Pei Pei perceived that she refered to the method of Chinese
work maker, Tsang Chieh’s method, and created interlanguage: