Inintially, at a forum, someone post, encourgaing "the development of the wisdom of
people". The strange topic fleetly became a neta, when everyone was doing something he thinks didn*t need to think, then he calls himself a "Monkey"(logic is that the intelligence
cannot be sai to be "Min", only can be said to be "Monkey"), mockeries himself a "Monkey" of score attack or a "Monkey" of dodge. Later, not only the monkey but also other animals were used such as dog. The usage is also going beyond the limit of self-mockery, which
can comment the others.
(*3 It is just like comment on the others using the term "Stupid" or "sabi" nowadays,it is not
regarding the other side is stupid or sabi, but only a meaningless joke. Some players
prefer to using "Cai", while the Nanjing players like using the term "DBWCNM".)
But owing to the first impression, "Dog" is pejorative, so when the term "Dog" and
"Monkey" is putting together, it makes a illusion that "Monkey" is a compliment. This may
be the reason that many people think that "Monkey" is a compliment?
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After that, because of some QQ screenshots, this usage starts to spread. However, since
the QQ screenshots was not complete, the meaning want to express is not same with the
beginning. During the spread, the meaning gradually changed. The meaning of "Monkey" change from "low intelligence and only know to dodge the bullet(pejorative)" to "good at
dodging the bullet(compliment)" and then "only know to dodge the bullet and have a lack
of other ability(neutral)". Certainly, everyone has a different understanding of "Monkey".
Someone thinks it is a derogatory word while someone thinks it is a compliment, it is
unlikely to unify, as long as we know the other side uses the term as a derogatory word or compliment, then no misunderstanding will be produced.
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Although there is miscellaneous understanding of "Monkey", they are all related to dodge.
On this basis, many usage can be extended, for instance, used the term to instead dodge as a verb, named the dodge ability as "Houli", or named the degree of dodge desire as
"Houxing".
Now that the term "dodge ability" was extracted, let*s stop here.