尽管白话文运动已过去了八十多年 ,白话取代文言亦已是近一世纪的事实 ,但有关“废文言倡白话”的争议却从未止息过。除了语体本身的孰优孰劣外 ,首倡者胡适的一些过激的言谈 ,也是导致人们争执不休的重要原因。其中 ,“死了的文言”一语 ,更是学者议论的焦点。但由于种种缘故 Although the vernacular movement has passed for more than eighty years and the vernacular instead of the classical one has been a fact of nearly a century, the controversy over “nonsense words” has never ceased. Apart from the merits of the style itself, some of the exaggerated discourse by the first advocate Hu Shi is also an important reason leading to endless disputes. Among them, the phrase “dead language” is the focus of scholars’ discussion. But for a variety of reasons