‘Your mum’ aka the perfect response to any question (a real gem used by kids throughout the Nineties. Loaded with connotations) is getting a bad rep in China.
Those who have a whole lot of love for the phrase (best comeback ever) will be outraged by the fact that China want to ban it from the internet.
Lu Wei, head of the government-run Cyberspace Administration of China, said during a cybersecurity conference in Beijing on Tuesday that the Mandarin equivalent is too ‘coarse’.
His spin is part of a strategy to clean up the language used online – President Xi Jinping is in on the action too – and it’s ‘your mum’ they have deemed… Read the full story