Language deviation is a kind of linguistic phenomenon which violates the standard norms of language. In view of an questionaire survey made among the students in Hunan University of Technology, some language deviation characteristics of popular campus catchwords have been generalized, such as using onomatopoeias, sound reduplication and homophones of English alphabets and numerals; creating new words or endowing new meaning to old words, abbreviations, simple words; imitated sentences and mixed use of Chinese and English words.