And if new words are being created are new never before seen chinese charactors also being created? Like nui bi again for example. That Bi is obviously used for the word pu%$y , but in written there isnt a word. They will either use english like "niu B"
Or they will use any spelling of that "bi" sound and people will know the meaning. 牛逼 牛比。 when was the last time a new chinese charactor was created??

I think when China opened up... just a ton of new stuff poured in and they didn't really know what to do... they broke it down and tried to directly translate it with compound words... like you said with hotdog. 

Even the words like shou ji (hand device) or dian hua (electronic voice) seem very rushed and simple. If they couldn't directly translate the word then they tried their best with phonetics so that it sounded similar but with sometimes a relative meaning when translated. 

Coca-cola lucked out. Their phonetic translation turned into ke kou ke le... or delicious and happy. Pepsi got screwed over with... bai shi which I believe translates to 100 issues or 100 problems lol. Coca-cola has some insane marketing geniuses. 

Other countries adopt English words into their own language... even Japan. China is just incredibly stubborn. You would think they would promote the use of English (especially words with meaning they don't really have in Chinese) since millions of their people are learning it daily... but you would be wrong. 

Most of their vulgar words have to do with animals. Like you said... Cao ni ma (mud grass horse) but changed, Niu bi (cow pussy), ben dan (idiot but literally turtle egg)...

Chinese is an incredibly complex language that went to hell when Mao killed or tried to "re-educate" all the scholars and tried to dummy it down for everyone. I am not a pro-speaker but this is my understanding. 

Now the new generation like 90S destoried many words.
Like they say 亲 instead of 亲爱的（Dear),麻麻 instead of 妈妈（mum).,etc
Just afraid the younger generation will get bad misleading about language.Those 90S just use any words sound similar to the words they want to say to make fun,which makes no sense.
Btw,to answer your question,I guess Chinese want to keep more original meaning or sound of the foreign words,which I agree with meaning translation or pick up words sound like foreign words to instead of.I studied translation between English and Chinese in college.
The sandwitch resturant called Subway is translated to 赛百味，it means more delicious than any other food while keeping its original sound.It is a creative way as well.

Creating new words would require a level of creative thought rhat does not exist in China.

There are definitely new words being created. With regards to phonetic and contextual (literal) translations, its obviously much easier and quicker to create a phonetic translation of a word that's come from a foreign language. Look at the words for fork, spoon etc. in Japanese. They sound like a Japanese person speaking English, and they're not new translations. 

There was an interesting piece written about the phonetic and literal translation of English words in Chinese (can't find it) because there's no one rule for translating words. The aim by many "extremists" is to create literal translations for all foreign words in the long run, in an effort to preserve and protect the Chinese language. Take for example vitamin. It was originally 维他命 wei ta ming, which is both phonetic and  humoursly has a literal tie-in to the English meaning. Over time, the word 维生素 wei sheng su replaced it and this would be entirely literal. Hot-dog is one of those strange exceptions. Chocolate and coffee are phonetic and I doubt they will ever get literal translations. But that's not to say all foreign words are translated like that. Computer, the internet, airplane, ambulance. None of these fit the "rule" you think exists. The fact is, there is no one rule for how to create the Chinese counterparts for new English (or whatever language) words. 

As for creating completely new words in Chinese, i.e. those that are exclusive to the Chinese language, again it does happen. There's no point me writing some of the new ones down, but there were plenty of new words created last year. 

草泥马 isn't an actual animal. It's a made-up creature that supposedly looks like an alpaca. It was invented in a "baidu answers" article against censorship, which was basically a series of curse words transformed into weird names of made-up creatures and places by changing the tones.

 Nowadays, 草泥马 is used to bypass word filters online, mostly in online games, and basically became an ultra popular meme that spread IRL.

Mike, if you didn't believe me, even the simplest of Google searches would have shown you I was right. Literally, the first result for typing "grass mud horse" . I just checked to make sure I wasn't full of crap myself.

I've been studying Chinese for 7 years and I spend most of my time on the internet. If you're going to be wrong, at least try to be modest.

Assuming we are talking about association of characters, not about characters themselves (these are two completely different issues).

Words follow concepts, when concepts are imported, it's likely they are going to be translated from the language they're imported from. This is mainly true for industrial creations (machinery, pharmaceutical, chemical, etc). The infamous 电话 for example is Japanese (so are all the cutely simplistic machine translations from the 20th century, like 电脑).

Nowadays it seems that often conflicting versions of a translated new word (let's say vitamin, or penicillin) are likely to appear at the same time, typically one phonetic and one semantic. Then they eventually coexist or one dies out, there doesn't seem to be a rule for that, so it's a per case phenomenon. So, to get back to penicillin, both 青霉素 (purely semantic) and 盘尼西林 (purely phonetic) coexist nowadays. Professionals will usually have a preference for the semantic words, but again, there is no hard core rule.

Now obviously new compositions of characters appear organically. An interesting example would be 自拍, a worldwide social production that China led instead of following: as far as I remember, I've seen this word spread in China at the same time, if not before, it became "selfie" in English and obviously way before it made it into the dictionaries (and the spell checker still doesn't like it).

I could argue that western alphabetic languages have a ceremonial process for acknowledging a new word, which is fusing two concepts into one word with no space between, while Chinese does not know this.

Because of the nature of Chinese characters and pinyin, of course every word that comes from foreign sources will be Chinglified to fit the Chinese pronunciation. English does this too, but of course through the English alphabet we can create a word of any spelling and length we want. That's cool for us, but you're wrong for thinking that Chinese also doesn't do that, and I'll make a point that Chinese does it in a more interesting way. I'll make some comparisons below.

English words are made of 26 letters arranged in different combinations. 

Chinese words are made of tens of thousands of characters arranged in different combinations. So far there's no real difference between the two.

English letters have no meaning on their own, so the word must be given a meaning by whoever created it. I think this is the "creativity" of English words that you're arguing over.

Each Chinese character has a meaning on its own, so the meaning of the new word created is limited by the meaning of the characters, so there's no real creativity in new Chinese words, and that's the point you're making. But actually both English and Chinese words have taken on different meanings over the years as people have used them in different contexts.

I actually find that Chinese is much more interesting than English, because the meaning of English words are given by whoever makes the word, so I have no idea what the word means if I've never seen it before.

In contrast, if I don't understand a Chinese word, I can at least understand the meaning from knowing the meanings of the individual characters. Also, Chinese is more interesting in that foreign words can be transcribed according to sound, meaning, or a combination of the two. This also makes Chinese a very punny language, as characters with different meanings can be easily substituted for characters of the same sound. That's one aspect of the Chinese language that English can't do as well.

Hi,Mike.

Actually, there are many ways to creat Chinese words. Pictographyic,self-explanatory, echoism, conversion，and borrowing from other culture. And words like,kafei-coffe,tai-feng-typhoon,re gou-hot dog,etc. They  originally came from wetern countries. As for words like niu bi, diao si, They are modern new words from internet talk.

Hope it helps !

What's the word for Segway? Lol.

You really shouldn't ask those kind of questions when you're in your circle. One of its members might miss the biscuit or fail to arrive on time.

Hopefully you can conduct yourself as per the norm in the future.

I am certainly not China language pro but I assume your statement is not taking into consideration different ways how the language creates new words. Usually there are several ways how the languages proceed and just one of them is creation of new words.
Chinese language certainly is not the exception and I assume the words like computer - dian nao (electric brain) or battery - dian chi (electric pool or pool of electricity) could illustrate that.
Also China organizes a competition for creating new characters. But of course you cannot expect hundreds of new characters yearly as this is not how Chinese writing system works and if approached this way so it would end up in chaos.
But I assume your question is more for the linguist rather than "ordinary person", irrespective of this person nationality and if you have a real interest in this topic so it should not be difficult to either find proper literature dealing with this issue or to consult Chinese language department in one of your city universities