Nursery rhymes should not be punctuated
In the practice of children's rhyme writing, it was found that some authors did not like punctuation. Recently, a certain publishing house published a series of nursery rhymes, and actually removed the punctuation marks in the work, causing readers to misunderstand, which attracted my attention.
Nursery rhymes should not be punctuatedThe first thing to do is to understand the role of punctuation.
The National Standard of the People's Republic of China "Punctuation Usage" states: "Punctuation marks are symbols that assist in the written record language, and are an integral part of the written language, which is used to indicate pauses, tone, and the nature and function of words. "It helps people to express their thoughts and feelings accurately and to understand written language.
Some people say: Ancient Chinese poetry has no punctuation. Yes, there is no punctuation in ancient poetry, and people can only break sentences through the sense of language, mood particles, grammatical structures, etc., but this is not good, and ambiguity often occurs, causing later generations to misunderstand the words. For example, there are several interpretations of the sentence "stay in the guest on a rainy day, stay in the guest day, leave me in the new collection" in the Qing dynasty Zhao Tianyang's "Supplement to the New Collection of Interpreting the People", such as "On a rainy day, stay in the guest day." Leave me alone? Stay. "Rainy days, guest days. Stay with me? Do not stay. "When it rains, the sky stays, the sky stays, I don't stay." ”
The author believes that children's rhymes should be punctuated, because children's songs are also written language, not oral folk nursery rhymes. Since it is presented in books and newspapers, there should be punctuation.
Some people think that children's songs are short and concise, the language is simple and easy to understand, and you can understand it when you listen to it, and you don't need punctuation. Actually, this is a misunderstanding. Because nursery rhymes are read to children, readers should master the content, rhythm, tone, and emotion of nursery rhymes to help children understand, and punctuation can play a good role in helping.
Little spider, go online. What web? Spider web. What do you do online? Go online to find rations.
If the punctuation marks are removed, it is necessary to carefully figure out how to express it when reciting, which is time-consuming and laborious. With punctuation, it is clear at a glance and clearly understood. Especially in fairy tales with characters, stories and dialogues, punctuation is even more indispensable. Such as Zhang Jilou's "Little Grasshopper":
Little grasshopper, learn high jump,
If the punctuation is removed, the rhythm, tone and emotion may not be grasped when reciting, which will affect the effect, especially if the pronunciation is removed.
The author has a song "Paper Kite", the full text of which is as follows:
Paper kites, floating in the sky, head wagging, tail cocking: "The white clouds are not as fast as me, and the swallows are not as high as me." The wind let go of his hand, and the kite fell and hung on the treetops.
All punctuation marks were removed by the editor when the set was included. Originally, the "I" in "The white clouds are not as fast as me, and the swallows are not as high as me" refers to the paper kite, which is said when it is triumphant. But when the punctuation is removed, the "I" in this sentence can easily be misinterpreted as the author himself. When Zhang Jilou watched this children's song, he had such a misunderstanding and questioned the song, thinking that the conception is not uniform, that is, the person is not unified before and after, the beginning and end are in the third person, and the middle is in the first person.
It can be seen that children's songs published in newspapers and magazines should have punctuation. Even if it is a traditional nursery rhyme circulated among the people, when collecting, sorting and publishing, punctuation marks should be added to it according to the content and tone of the nursery rhyme, so that readers can read and understand it, which is more conducive to recitation and performance.
The author found that the editors of the nursery rhyme series also seem to recognize this, so after canceling all the punctuation, it was found that it affected the reading effect, and not all of them were cleaned, so this strange phenomenon appeared: only a few places in the whole children's rhyme retained punctuation. For example, "Little Grasshopper" only retains "Which one has me jumping high!" "One sentence after another"! In "Butterfly", there is no punctuation mark in the whole poem, only the language symbols of the characters are retained, such as: the butterfly says "You don't have a flower skirt"; In "Ah Niu", there is no punctuation in the first four sentences, but the punctuation marks of the last two sentences "Don't run, don't run, I want to give birth to a baby on you" are completely retained. Literally, it looks nondescript and does not meet the requirements for the use of punctuation marks.
In this way, the punctuation marks in easy-to-understand and catchy children's songs are not the ears of the deaf - ornaments.
Qi Wankai).