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Projective lexicon of the Russian language December 16, 2007

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Word of the year

Dear friends! I’m really looking forward to your letters of nomination for the “Word and Anti-Word of the Year” competition. If you would like your suggestions to be taken into account in full, please send them by Thursday 20 December (inclusive).

Subject: dar, email: russmne@emory.edu

Meanwhile, words of the year continue to be chosen in different countries around the world. According to Tatiana Yamazaki, the 2007 Hieroglyph of the Year in Japan has just been announced: the hieroglyph “tsuwari” - “lie,” “fake,” “deception.” Selected by majority vote due to numerous cases of counterfeit goods and deliberate distortions of release dates. The character for the Year was written on a large sheet of paper by a priest-calligrapher in the courtyard of the Kiyomizu-dera Buddhist temple in Kyoto.

Here's a press release: "The Merriam-Webster dictionary announced Dec. 11 that its word of the year for 2007 was "w00t," an interjection used by online gamers to express joy, reports Reuters. In second place was a new verb. “to facebook”, which is used to mean “add someone to your friends list on Facebook” or “find someone among social network users.” On December 11, the results of another study of words and expressions used in the media and the Internet were published. According to the California-based Global Language Monitor, the top word for 2007 is “hybrid.” In previous years, various researchers cited “blog” and “podcast” as the top terms. URL: http://www .lenta.ru/news/2007/12/12/w00t/

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These are the offers I received last week. Many thanks to the authors who sent them!

1.
Words of the year - iPod (I-Pod), gloss , glamor .
Anti-word of the year - zaputinets , jackal , raider .

(Anti)expression of the year - wild nineties .

Zoya Rysina, biologist, Moscow <zoyary@rambler.ru>

2.
I have long wanted to suggest the word “ extremism ,” although I don’t know where to put it. His negative assessment is imposed on society. In my opinion, it is rather ambivalent.

"Well, let's do an encore, only in a new key,
that radical, extremist music!
That vigorous cocktail of Pol Pot and Che,
flavored with a slice of lemon, let’s have some bread for a snack!”
(from the poem "1968")

Boris Lichtenfeld, poet, St. Petersburg <lichtenfeld@mail.ru>

3.
Dear Mikhail Naumovich,
” as both a word and an anti-word at the same time I propose “ glamor . About five years ago, when “ glamor ” suddenly popped up in Russia, it was (in the media) good, cherished, desirable, beautiful, etc. , Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, were truly glamorous , that is, luxurious, enchanting, seductive Of course, none of those who seriously used this word remembered that the founders of this style and image, the symbols of glamor . Many in Russia generally believed that this word was not from a dictionary, but from the cover of tights of the same name, but they pronounced it with enthusiasm and aspiration. Some time has passed, and now Russian “ glamor ”, along with glamorous girls, things, manners, magazines, parties, has begun to cause irony. In my opinion, it didn’t come to hatred only because emptiness and secondaryness, lack of internality, meaninglessness were revealed. Luxury, but loud. Shine, but as per the order, obligatory, otherwise it’s just “not life, but some kind of hard labor,” without glamor . An extreme degree of consumerism - essentially. The concept has moved from era to era, from symbol to symbol, from Greta Garbo to Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak... It’s funny, even if you cry.

And here are some more nominated words: “ blog ” and “ blogger ”. Bloggers are becoming a force, they are taken into account, and in some places they are already fighting. In the past year, even some pensioners (!) began to use this word in Russia.

If I really have to choose a nomination, I’ll act slyly: the word is glamor , the anti-word is glamorous . The word is blog. Yes, and blogger is also a word. In the second case, the grammatical form is suitable as a kind of “anti”: some persistently write “ blogger ”, phonetically, graphically and in every possible way enhancing novelty and some aggressiveness
called phenomenon.

With gratitude for the "Gift of the Word" and respect -
Elena Chernikova, writer, journalist, radio program host, author of the novels “The Golden Donkey”, “Tell It to God”, “Why?” "Cherry Ray" and the soon to be released "Lust of the Abyss" (about Darwin). Moscow <litera-elena@comtv.ru>

I hope that with the addition of new candidate words, a serious battle will break out between them for the highest step of honor. Passions are heating up. Write!

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About fears

Lately, the topic of fear has come up again. Are we not returning to an era when enemies of the people surrounded us everywhere, and the only defense against them was the genius of all times and peoples? And who is more terrible - enemies, genius, people?

What kind of fears do people suffer from? The list of phobias includes hundreds of names. There is a fear of dust, mirrors, stairs, the number 4 and talking on the phone... There is “genuphobia” (fear of knees) and “pogonophobia” (fear of beards). But for some reason, the much more relevant words “ geniophobia ” or “ fear of the people ” are not yet in the nomenclature of fears.

We will talk about fears that seem real to us and for which, in addition to the Greek “phobia,” “-fear” can be used as the second basis of complex words. In the dictionaries of the Soviet era, which reflected the fearlessness of Soviet people, only the words “hydrophobia” and “photophobia” appeared (they were not afraid of anything except water and light - how happy!). True, in the largest, academic 17-volume Dictionary (1948-65), there are the words “fear of thoughts” and “fear of words,” the meanings of which the Soviet government, with its inherent love of freedom, did not attribute to itself, but still did not leave outside the academic dictionary .

reafObia - fear of the real.
reafOb , reafObka - one or the other who is afraid of reality.

Reaphobia develops in setemans, those who are petrified. They are afraid to go out into real life, to come into direct contact with the very people with whom they casually chat in chat rooms.

The philosopher Plato was an ideophile and a reaphobe , while Nietzsche, on the contrary, positioned himself as an ideophile and a reaphile.

Humanity is the fear of people, society, communication.

Chekhov's story "The Man in a Case" opens with the image of the people-fearing Mavra, who sits behind the stove for years and only goes out at night... Such fear of people is explained by the narrator as a mental relic, an atavism.

Towering over the entire 20th century is a small man, cut exactly according to Akaki Akakievich’s measurements: “short, somewhat pockmarked... and with a complexion that is called hemorrhoidal” - a short man 155 cm tall, with a yellow, pockmarked face. Walled up in an irreplaceable Overcoat. And with the infantile nickname Soso, as if imitating a child’s smack and an obscene repetition of the oral-anal syllable in the name Akaki. A man-fearing leader of a love-loving people. (M. Epstein. Little man in a case. Bashmachkin-Belikov syndrome, in his book. Word and Silence. Metaphysics of Russian Literature "M., Higher School, 2006, P. 57).

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After a loud ovation, pianist Ivanchikov disappeared backstage and sat for a long time in the dark dressing room, waiting for the audience to leave. For some time now he suffered from fear of fame .

N. never publishes his poems. He is afraid of going out into the world, just as some people are afraid of going out into the square. Fear of money is somewhat similar to agoraphobia.

Lust - fear of love, deep personal relationships, fear of being dependent on another and your feelings for him.

Synonym: philophobia (from Greek philia, love + phobos, fear; cf. agoraphobia, xenophobia; English philophobia).

Inquisitive, philophore - one who is afraid of love and the consequences and obligations arising from it.

Egor was fearful from his youth . He often fell in love, but was afraid to give vent to his feelings.

Curiosity determined both Gogol’s personal life and the motives of his work. The writer not only himself experienced a painful fear of sex and marriage, but also endowed his characters with this property. Here is the reflection of the typical philophobe Podkolesin from the comedy “Marriage”: “However, no matter what you say, it’s somehow even scary, no matter how hard you think about it. and after that there is no excuse, no repentance, nothing, nothing - it’s all over, it’s all done.” This is the characteristic rhetoric of curiosity.

Misogyny is the fear of women or marriage.
Husbandphobia - fear of men or marriage.

Podkolesin suffers from pathological misogyny . On the eve of the wedding, he jumps out the window of the bride's house.

Since childhood, Antonina was surrounded only by women and therefore, already as a young girl, she suffered from fear of husbands .

Childhood phobia - fear of having children; fear of communicating with children.

I don't have any particular reason for not having children other than typical male child phobia .

After a difficult birth, a mental complication began: she began to hate her own child. More precisely, she experienced increasing phobia of children .

fearphobia - fear of fear.

Synonym: phobiofObia (from Greek phobos, fear)

Fear can be healthy and healing, but fear of fear is nervous
fear squared.

Franklin Roosevelt said: "The only thing we have to fear is our
fear." So Robert was afraid not so much of the war as of his fear of
war. There are people so fearful that in times of danger they
become heroes.

FearLubie is the love of fear.
fearolYub , fearolYubka - one who loves scary things enjoys fear.

Why are you listening to this fear-lover ! Don't feed her bread, give her something to be scared of. “What passions, what horrors” - and this is about the most innocent things!

among children There are many fear lovers : they are afraid of the dark or creepy stories.
and at the same time they love to be frightened.

For some people, fear is a source of high or low pleasure; they cherish it within themselves, and cannot do without small or large fear. Belikov, who is constantly afraid that something might not happen - maybe he is not a coward, but a lover of fear ?

Sometimes those whom we take for daredevils are fear lovers : they are not only
They are no strangers to fear, but they revel in it, like a masochist in pain.

Fear is the driving force behind many leisure industries. Gothic novels, horror films, extreme forms of tourism. Rock climbers, divers, travelers, pioneers, predator hunters, lovers of hot air balloons and parachute descents, space tourists... All of them are fear lovers to one degree or another .

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Books by Mikhail Epstein

Philosophy, humanities

Philosophy of the Possible . St. Petersburg, Aletheia, 2001, 334 pp.

Projective Philosophical Dictionary: New Terms and Concepts . St. Petersburg: Aletheya, 2003, 512 pp. (co-editor, author of the foreword and 90 articles out of 165).

Space sign. On the Future of the Humanities . M.: New Literary Review, 2004, 864 pp.

Metaphysics of everyday life

Paternity. Metaphysical Diary . St. Petersburg Aletheia, 2003, 246 pp.

Philosophy of the body . St. Petersburg: Aletheya, 2006, 194 pp.

Russian literature

Postmodernity in Russian literature . M., Higher School, 2005, 495 pp.

Word and silence. Metaphysics of Russian literature "M., "Higher School", 2006, 559 pp.

Poems and elements. Nature in Russian poetry of the 18th - 20th centuries (series "Rainbow of Thought"). Samara, Bakhrakh-M, 2007, 352 pp.

Mythology, theology, ideology

New sectarianism. Types of religious and philosophical mindsets in Russia in the 1970s - 1980s . (series "Rainbow of Thought"). Samara: Bakhrakh-M, 2005, 256 pp.

Great Owl. Soviet mythology. (series "Rainbow of Thought"). Samara: Bakhrakh-M, 2006, 268 pp.

Essays

All essays , in 2 vols. vol. 1. In Russia; v. 2. From America. Ekaterinburg: U-Factoria, 2005, 544 pp. + 704 ss.

Amerossia. Selected essays (series "Parallel Texts", in Russian and English) M., Silver Threads, 2007, 504 pp.

Mikhail Epstein's books can be purchased in major bookstores, as well as on the Internet. In Moscow, almost all of them are in the Biblioglobus stores (metro station Lubyanka, Myasnitskaya st. 6/3, tel. 928-35-67, 924-46-80); NINA (Consent) (metro Paveletskaya, Bakhrushina st., 28, t. (095) 959-2094); Ad Marginem (metro Paveletskaya, 1st Novokuznetsky lane, 5/7, corner of Novokuznetskaya street, t. 951-93-60); Bookstore of the Literary Institute (Tverskoy Boulevard, 25, entrance is open only from Bolshaya Bronnaya Street, walk 3 minutes from Pushkinskaya metro station, on the left side, to the sign: Literary Institute, freely through the entrance, tel. 202-8608) .

Three books in the Rainbow of Thought series can be purchased at the Moscow trade representative office of the Bakhrakh-M publishing house. Tel.: (495) 304-84-25; 8-903-193-80-45. Olga Logacheva. Address: Martenovskaya, 3 (metro station Novogireevo).

Books published by the publishing house " Vysshaya Shkola " can be bought at the lowest price in the publishing house's store: Moscow, Trubnaya sq., Neglinnaya st., 29/14. (metro Trubnaya or Tsvetnoy Boulevard).