Vietnamese, and almost all the words are homonyms or some form of wordplay. Some examples include: There are debates on the prevalence of uses of slang among young people in Vietnam, as specific teen speak conversations become difficult to understand for older generations. Many critics believed that incorporating teen-speak or internet slang into a daily conversation among teenagers would affect the formality and cadence of speech. Others argue that it is not the slang that is the problem but rather the lack of communication techniques for the instant internet messaging era. They believe slang should not be dismissed, but instead, youth should be informed enough to know when to use them and when it is appropriate. Quê, a word in Vietnamese, in English means "hometown", but it's a slang people use to make others feel embarrassed or guilty Writing systems After ending a millennium of Chinese rule in 938, the Vietnamese state adopted Literary Chinese (called or in Vietnamese) for official purposes. Up to the late 19th century (except for two brief interludes), all formal writing, including government business, scholarship and formal literature, was done in Literary Chinese, written with Chinese characters (). Although the writing system is now mostly in chữ quốc ngữ (Latin script), Chinese script known as chữ Hán in Vietnamese as well as Chữ Nôm (together, Hán-Nôm) is still present in such activities such as Vietnamese calligraphy. Chữ Nôm From around the 13th century, Vietnamese scholars used their knowledge of the Chinese script to develop the () script to record folk literature in Vietnamese. The script used Chinese characters to represent both borrowed Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and native words with similar pronunciation or meaning. In addition, thousands of new compound characters were created to write Vietnamese words using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. For example, in the opening lines of the classic poem The Tale of Kiều, the Sino-Vietnamese word 'destiny' was written with its original character ; the native Vietnamese word 'our' was written with the character of the homophonous Sino-Vietnamese word 'little, few; rather, somewhat'; the native Vietnamese word 'year' was written with a new character 𢆥 that is compounded from and 'year'. writing reached its zenith in the 18th century when many Vietnamese writers and poets composed their works in , most notably Nguyễn Du and Hồ Xuân Hương (dubbed "the Queen of Nôm poetry"). However, it was only used for official