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Tang Jun (Guangzhou Daily)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u5fae\u8f6f (W\u0113iru\u01cen): Microsoft<\/a><\/p>\n

This\u00a0calque<\/a>\u00a0can also mean \u201cslightly soft.\u201d Since a microblog can be called a \u201cslight erection<\/a>,\u201d netizens have asked whether it is better to be \u201cslightly firm\u201d or \u201cSlightlysoft.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tang Jun<\/a>, the former president of Microsoft China, became a butt of this pun after he was accused of r\u00e9sum\u00e9 fraud.\u00a0Tang also became embroiled in a financial scandal case soon after the public learned that his PhD from the California Institute of Technology was fake.<\/a>\u00a0Netizens have joked, \u201cSlightlysoft got Tang Jun hard, while a\u00a0slight erection<\/a>\u00a0made Tang Jun soft (\u5fae\u8f6f\u8ba9\u5510\u9a8f\u786c\u4e86\u8d77\u6765\uff0c\u5fae\u52c3\u8ba9\u5510\u9a8f\u840e\u4e86\u4e0b\u53bb<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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The Grass-Mud Horse\u00a0eBook<\/a>\u00a0is your guide to the Chinese Internet. Available from\u00a0Kindle<\/a>,\u00a0iTunes<\/a>, and\u00a0Google Play<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"grass-mud<\/a>The\u00a0Word of the Week<\/a>\u00a0comes from China Digital Space\u2019s\u00a0Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon<\/a>, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China\u2019s online \u201cresistance discourse,\u201d used to mock and subvert the official language around\u00a0censorship<\/a>\u00a0and political correctness.<\/em><\/p>\n

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