Dear Sam,
You told me you were curious about the network language, for example "shenma", in your last letter. Well, there are thousands of network language words not only in the Web world, but the real everyday life. "shenma", meaning what, is one of them.
On nowadays information times, the highly mutual cyber-media provide as most convenient as possible for people in distant communication and extensive broadcast. On this kind of new space of personal communication, those bearing the particular form or rule cyber-language have been made. The network language have natural relativity with our culture, and people make all kinds of cyber-language through the media of web to express their ideal, convey their particular conception of value and sentimen. That's becoming more of popularity.