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IN SLOVAKIA #148 (206)
Projective lexicon of the Russian language
March 19, 2006
In Nezavisimaya Gazeta, in the Ex Libris supplement, last week (16.3) M. Epstein’s article “ On the Properties of the Mind ” was published.
Compound words with stems -suy and suye-
By analogy, we can suggest a number of more complex words with a secondary stem -sui . After all, they stick not only their hands where they shouldn’t, but also other parts of the body: the nose, and eyes, and ears...
UkhosUy - one who sticks his ear where it is not needed, eavesdrops on other people's conversations.
fuesUy - promiscuous in sexual relations, sticking his manhood anywhere.
Internal rhyme (repetition of the syllable "uy") gives this word additional expressiveness.
To form adjectives with the same meaning, it is more convenient to swap the first and second bases, i.e. put sui- in first place, replacing “th” with the connecting vowel “e”, like “superstition”, “fuss”.
suerUchka, suenOzhka, sueglazka - diminutive designation of the same persons.
Aphorism
Projective lexicon of the Russian language
March 19, 2006
In Nezavisimaya Gazeta, in the Ex Libris supplement, last week (16.3) M. Epstein’s article “ On the Properties of the Mind ” was published.
Compound words with stems -suy and suye-
In the last issue ( 147 ) we looked at words with the first stem - superstition : superstition , superstition . Another stem that can act as the second part of complex words is “sui”. It is now used only in one rare word - “rukosuy”, which in D. Ushakov’s Dictionary is defined as “a clumsy person, a mouthful”, and in V. Dahl is not defined at all and is given only as part of the expression: “Chukhloma rukosuy, mittens in your bosom , and is looking for others! "
Obviously, “rukosuy” is the one who “sticks” his hands in the wrong place, or the one who uses them “in vain.” Then he puts them under the neighbor’s skirt and gets slapped on the wrist; then he begins to repair an electrical appliance without skill and dexterity - and receives an electric shock; then he turns some vase aimlessly - and it falls and breaks. Although the words “to poke” (“shove”, “vanes”) and “vanity” have completely different roots and origins, in the case of “rukosuem” their meanings come closer: to poke in the wrong place = to use in vain (i.e. in vain, in vain, not on purpose).
Handiness is the habit or quality of using your hands in vain, sticking them where they shouldn’t be.
to misuse - to put your hands in the wrong place, to act with them in vain.
Oh, you wretched hand ... Well, get out of here!
It's better to be openly violent,
but don’t use your hands little by little .
By analogy, we can suggest a number of more complex words with a secondary stem -sui . After all, they stick not only their hands where they shouldn’t, but also other parts of the body: the nose, and eyes, and ears...
glazosuy - one who sticks his eyes where it is not needed, uses them in vain, runs around, fornicates with his eyes.
From childhood, Peregonov was an eye-catcher - he ran his eyes around, looking for something that his mind did not yet understand.And it serves you right - don’t stare . Don’t let your eyes wander behind the curtain of someone else’s room or into the bosom of your cute neighbor.
UkhosUy - one who sticks his ear where it is not needed, eavesdrops on other people's conversations.
Why are you hiding here? So I’ll pull you by the ear, you unfortunate ear!
fuesUy - promiscuous in sexual relations, sticking his manhood anywhere.
Internal rhyme (repetition of the syllable "uy") gives this word additional expressiveness.
Until the morning he hangs around brothels and train stations, fuck him. Not a single hole will be missed.
To form adjectives with the same meaning, it is more convenient to swap the first and second bases, i.e. put sui- in first place, replacing “th” with the connecting vowel “e”, like “superstition”, “fuss”.
SuerUky, SuenOgy, SuenOsy, Sue-Eyed, Sue-Eared - the one who sticks the corresponding parts of the body where it is not needed uses them in vain.
guest here I came across one arrogant - I walked in and he was stroking my daughter. My punishment was short - I broke his arm.She has become somewhat fussy , runs around the city all day, and comes back with nothing.
Are we talking to you or not? How crazy ! Why are you listening to the neighboring tables?
This droopy-eyed gentleman will get me in trouble if he looks at you like that again.
And your landlady is fussy , she’s about to get wind of what you’re doing here.
suerUchka, suenOzhka, sueglazka - diminutive designation of the same persons.
Oh, my little darling , you were avoided, you were exhausted... no, to ask me, I know where, what and how much.suegAsia, vainness, suenosie, suenOzhie ... - the tendency to stick the corresponding parts of the body where they are not needed, to use them in vain.Hey, fussy-eyed , are you looking at the candies and cake, go ahead and eat your porridge, it’s more useful!
Innate quick -eyedness is a trait of a future spy or informer._________________________________________________________________
Aphorism
There is only one thing worse than hard-heartedness - soft-headedness.
(Тhere is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is
softness of head).
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States.
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Memo (from previous issues)
ambiutopianism ( ambiutopianism ) - a combination of utopianism and anti-utopianism, a contradictory, ambivalent attitude towards the future.
Utopianism and anti-utopianism have common features: increased sensitivity to the future, acute expectations and premonitions, the design of images and models, an extremely enthusiastic or wary attitude towards everything new. Ambiutopianism is a combination of utopianism and anti-utopianism that is charged with all their pros and cons and is intensely worried about their reversibility.
The mood of the early 21st century. can be characterized precisely as ambiutopianism , an ironic-nostalgic attitude towards utopias. We do not abandon utopias because they mobilize passion and imagination, but we do not rush to implement them recklessly. Since we already have behind us, in the 20th century, the experience of both ardent utopianism and no less convinced anti-utopianism, we can measure the thinness of their partition. After all, the worst thing about utopias, as N. Berdyaev said, is that they come true. That is why every utopian impulse is mixed with dystopian fear, which keeps us from hasty and reckless leaps of progress. People are afraid of thinking machines, viruses, clones, artificial genes, a new race of cyborgs, because behind all this they imagine “that same thing,” “The End.” Our knowledge of the dangers of utopia allows us to hope to avoid them, and therefore we, ambiutopians , do not share either the hopes of our grandfathers or the skepticism of our fathers. We are trying to build into utopia a mechanism for its self-limitation, to insert reliable brakes into the accelerating machine of progress.Ambiutopianism is generally inherent in a deep, voluminous attitude towards the future. Let's say, T. More, the author of "Utopia", was undoubtedly a utopian, and J. Orwell, the author of "1984" was a dystopian. It is much more difficult to define in these terms Andrei Platonov, who both dreams of a communist future and at the same time portrays it in terrible images of collapse. A utopian, communist, technophile and technocrat, Platonov, based on his ideals, created the deepest dystopia of a naked, “objectless” society. His novel "Chevengur" is a vivid example of ambiutopia. (issue 67 )
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