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IN SLOVAKIA #167
Projective lexicon of the Russian language February 21, 2005
Dear friends! I congratulate you on the upcoming holiday of February 23 - Terminal Day. Officially it is celebrated as Defender of the Fatherland Day, but it has a deeper history and meaning. About the ancient origins of this holiday of borders and its modern meaning, see the appendix to this issue - an article published a year ago in Novaya Gazeta and which marked the beginning of a rethinking of the symbolism of this day.
GUEST EDITION - 14
Galina Berdichevskaya, Riga, Latvia.
I would like to suggest a number of new words. some of them have been in our family's use for many years.
Efim Pokhis made his first appearance in "The Gift" in Guest Issue 6 (words about time). This is how he talks about himself. Born after the war in Chisinau. Graduated from Polytechnic. Electrical Engineer. Specialization - automation, telemechanics, metrology. Professional experience - 40 years. 20 years of them - management of government agencies. Emigrated to the USA in 1996. In the USA he founded the company Pole US Co. Intul, Export management & International consulting. Married. 1 son. Interests other than professional ones: Russian and world poetry, literature, science fiction, philosophy, futurology. Recently - interaction of cultures, cultural clench, cultural shock.
Kalina Radicheva (Bulgaria)
Projective lexicon of the Russian language February 21, 2005
Dear friends! I congratulate you on the upcoming holiday of February 23 - Terminal Day. Officially it is celebrated as Defender of the Fatherland Day, but it has a deeper history and meaning. About the ancient origins of this holiday of borders and its modern meaning, see the appendix to this issue - an article published a year ago in Novaya Gazeta and which marked the beginning of a rethinking of the symbolism of this day.
GUEST EDITION - 14
In this guest episode, we have several authors submitting their new words. I will present them in alphabetical order: Galina Berdichevskaya, Efim Pokhis, Kalina Radiccheva, Dmitry Tortev. Another guest issue with monologues by Boris Tseytlin, Igor Churbanov, and Yan Sheredeko will be released soon.
Galina Berdichevskaya, Riga, Latvia.
I would like to suggest a number of new words. some of them have been in our family's use for many years.
1. Spirituality - a sudden feeling of the presence of unearthly, otherworldly, higher powers.
The weather was beautiful, there was not a soul on the beach. An inexplicable, but previously experienced spirituality filled the entire being with bliss and joy of existence. I wanted to turn to this “someone” and communicate with him, to let him know that I am always glad to meet him.2. Shaggy - an affectionate term for a person with wild hair.
My dear shaggy man, I miss you.3. Lysik is the opposite of “shaggy”.
Our friend was a charming bald man .4. Shustik is an active child, an animal.
The lack of hair did not bother him and did not prevent him from being the life of the party.
, a naughty boy and everyone’s favorite, lived with us For many years, Shustik .5. Television - a photographic lens with magnification, zoom in the camera.
The kitten got its name because of its playfulness and omnipresence.
How did you get such wonderful photos?6. Nenada is the name of a woman who has an automatic negative reaction (before comprehension) to any proposal.
So we have a decent TV in the device.
Our Nenada Matveevna in her repertoire.
7. Mikroshka , mikrik - regular minibus.
In the morning I was late for work - the microphone was full and did not stop.
nearby Where can you intercept a microshka ?
” that completely fascinated me 8. Recently I came across in one forum the word “ Piggy as a designation for the Windows XP operating system.
From the same series, “ window windows ” are a free translation of “Windows,” however, such “gems” are a dime a dozen on computer forums.
Efim Pokhis made his first appearance in "The Gift" in Guest Issue 6 (words about time). This is how he talks about himself. Born after the war in Chisinau. Graduated from Polytechnic. Electrical Engineer. Specialization - automation, telemechanics, metrology. Professional experience - 40 years. 20 years of them - management of government agencies. Emigrated to the USA in 1996. In the USA he founded the company Pole US Co. Intul, Export management & International consulting. Married. 1 son. Interests other than professional ones: Russian and world poetry, literature, science fiction, philosophy, futurology. Recently - interaction of cultures, cultural clench, cultural shock.
Your ChelotEma involuntarily echoed in me. I am sending for your consideration a few words-hypotheses, born in the continuation of your thoughts in THE GIFT OF THE WORD #104 (154). I have arranged them according to your classification.
1. “Gradually, people will become more and more detached from their eyelids , acquiring independence as the biological basis of the mind is replaced by a more mobile, technical basis (“artificial intelligence”, “cyborg” - cybernetic organism)” (M.E. THE GIFT OF WORDS #104 (154), choosing your historical man .
ChelopUt is a direction of development of civilization that uses
knowledge in the field of cybernetics
Humanoid is an integrated circuit that has the emotions and logic characteristic of people, which is built into machines and turns them into humanoid robots.
A person is a performer of routine work in the distant future, differing from today's official by an incomparably lower level of uncontrolled and meaningless actions
ChelofAn ( chelofAnia ) - robot - a passionate admirer of people
ChelofOb ( chelophobia ) misanthropic robot
2. “It can be assumed that, along with natural bodies, the human mind will eventually be able to acquire other, more subtle and mobile bodies, which will outwardly liken it to a car, an airplane, a ray of light, sound vibrations in the air, etc.” (M.E. THE GIFT OF THE WORD #104 (154)
ChelobUkva is the basic open multilayer structure of CheloalfAvit .
CheloalfAvit - a set of cheloletters . Vaguely reminiscent of the table of periodic elements, the human alphabet can be in various physical, chemical and psychological states, the essence of which is an endless search and merging of various knowledge into unified forms. The result is the appearance of new person letters .
Human figure is a qualitative-quantitative identity.
..." a person is - a person as a message, information" (M.E. THE GIFTS OF WORDS #104 (154)), and the petition as a unit of this information.
ChelonAut (humonaut, English version) - cosmonaut, astronaut with a human mind, but not a body
Man-Man - “In my view, the man of the future is not a rational animal prowling the earth in search of food, but man-light and man-sound , spreading meaning and reason to all directions of the universe” (M.E. THE GIFT OF WORDS #104 (154), but laws physicists are inexorable, and silent people surround us, and the human echo sounds incessantly.
Man-eater - a retinue of man-consultants , hovering around the power holder, but unlike other robots, does not need daily recharging and programming
Chelohods , cheloveos - the general name of a group of moving human objects : “ chelomobil , manplane , chelolet ” (M.E. THE GIFT OF WORDS #104 (154), as well as chelopEd , cheloKat , chelotsIkl , cheloSani , cheloAter , cheloYacht , cheloskUter , cheloYoln , etc.
shuttle - hang out in crowded groups , preferring the dark...and his thought, like an inaudible canoe,
rushed into the darkness by the will of the waves,
when would he know that the Almighty
was sent there a human being ...
Kalina Radicheva (Bulgaria)
Hello Mikhail Naumovich,
I am the author of the translated one-word " musyurprise" . I am writing to you about verbs from surnames and, more specifically, about the surname of Joseph Brodsky.
As a student of Russian philology at Sofia University in 1994, I wrote a term paper on the topic “Christmas poems by Joseph Brodsky.” This text was the result of a long and detached period of Wandering on my part. The passion for Wandering continued even after the creation of this text. Its trace is easy to detect in the nature of my real preferences.
The verb WANDER is missing the letter "K", however, I like the way it sounds and approaches in meaning to the verb "wander" and the noun "brod". I would not like to deny my stable state of pleasure from delving into the written word of Joseph Alexandrovich in this verb.
Dmitry Tortev (N. Novgorod) gordon@vvags.ru
I offer you the words in stock that reflect the ways of moving in the city.
take the bus
To get to the square, I need to take the bus four stops, and then I walk.Today I'm taking the bus , because... The car broke down.
trolleybus ( trolleybust )
trams
highway
To get from the suburbs to the center, I take the new highway.
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TERMINAL DAY
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Historians find it difficult to explain exactly why February 23 was chosen by the communist leaders as the date of the military holiday - “Day of the Soviet Army and Navy.” Official explanation: “in commemoration of the massive entry of volunteers into the Red Army in 1918 and courageous resistance to the German invaders, in honor of the repulse to the Kaiser’s troops near Pskov and Narva.” In fact, if there were any battles on February 23, 1918, they had an unfavorable outcome for the Soviet side. Thus, Pskov was occupied on February 24 by a company of German scooter riders, and, according to a report from the Soviet command, the city could have been defended if at least some resistance had been offered.
The choice of February 23, when Leon Trotsky wrote the appeal “The Socialist Fatherland is in Danger!”, may be associated with a wider range of historical or even mythological patterns. Like the French revolutionary regime, the Bolshevik government loved to try on the costumes of ancient Rome - republican and imperial. It was February 23 that was celebrated in Rome as a holiday of sacred borders, inviolable boundaries - “terms”. The terms meant both state borders and boundaries of private property. In addition to a large number of field terms, there was a cult of one Term: the stone depicting it was placed in the Capitoline Temple, which symbolized the inviolability of the borders of Rome.
The lands of other peoples are limited by a fixed limit;
Rome's limit is the same as that given to the world.
Ovid, "Fasti" [1]
It was precisely this symbolism of state borders, potentially coinciding with the borders of the world, that was consciously or unconsciously adopted by the Soviet regime - while completely violating the original meaning of this holiday as the consecration of borders between private possessions.
For Russian society, in the initial period of the formation of private property institutions, the holiday of Terminalia should be especially close. We propose to restore the original meaning of this holiday Between and Borders and celebrate February 23 not only as Defender of the Fatherland Day, but also as the holiday of Terminalia .
Next, we will talk in more detail about this Roman custom and outline possible ways to revive its social and moral meanings in modern conditions.
The Terminalia is described in Ovid's epic poem "Fasti", which sets out the calendar of Roman festivities and related legends:
The night is over, and now we praise God, whoThe establishment of the cult of Terminus in Ancient Rome was attributed to the second king, Numa Pompilius (8-7 centuries BC) and is associated with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe sanctity and inviolability of private ownership. Terminus - in Latin, boundary stone or pillar, boundary sign; border, limit (from the verb "terminare", to demarcate, separate, delimit, end). Hence “term” is a word with a precisely defined meaning, for example, denoting a special concept in science; “terminal” is an input and output device of a computer system; part of the port intended for loading and unloading; "termination" - completion, end. It is significant that February 23 was the last day of the old Roman year, thereby marking the most important boundary in time.
Indicates field boundaries with its sign.
The term, whether you are a stone or a tree trunk buried in a field,
You were deified long ago by our ancestors.
The Romans performed rites of veneration and sacrifice over boundary signs, terms . Anyone who moved the boundary stone was considered cursed and could be executed; the death sentence was subsequently commuted to a fine. From this veneration of boundary stones developed the worship of the god Terminus. The owners of the adjacent fields gathered at a common boundary marker, and each decorated his side of the stone or pillar with garlands. Sacrifices and libations were brought - honey, wine, milk, grain, pies; a sheep or pig was slaughtered. When marking the land and installing signs, sacrifices were also made to sanctify the border of the property.
The border is a place of co-division of living conditions and work. Terminalia are celebrated in order to consecrate borders as the basis of peace and commonwealth between neighbors, employees, co-workers, colleagues, compatriots, members of different parties, everyone who is separated by borders - and connected by them. A successfully drawn border is the key to good neighborliness. Without terms consecrating boundaries, civil strife and a war of all against all would begin. We have nothing more in common than the borders that separate us. Here's how Ovid refers to the term:
You are the edge of the people, and the edge of the cities and great powers,Terms should be as revered in a society deprived of revolutions and civil wars as the Penates - the Roman deities of domestic life, guardians of the hearth. In essence, penates and terms together protect the peace of society, some sanctifying the inside of the house , and others - the border of the site (yard, field, allotment).
And without you, fields everywhere would be controversial.
You are not partial at all, and you are incorruptible with gold,
And according to the law, you always keep rural boundaries....
If they move you either with a plow or with a hoe,
You cry out: “This is your field, and this is his!..”
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How can we celebrate this holiday on February 23 - Terminalia Day - in modern conditions? On this day, try to invite not only loved ones, but also distant ones to your home, to your celebration, and pay tribute to the differences that unite you. One of the rules of this holiday: do not identify with anything, do not resist anything . Both identities and opposites are degenerate differences. We will term all relationships as consisting of differences and therefore calling for sympathy, co-participation, co-thinking, co-action. For every " once- "has his own " co- ". Let the physiologist honor the physicist, and the physicist the metaphysician. Let the radical honor the conservative, and the conservative the liberal. Let them together, from different sides, approach those terms that separate them, as in In ancient Rome, the owners of neighboring fields converged on a common term to honor the deity who bestowed peace on them.The festival of Terminalia reminds us of the friendly meaning of the border , that without the division of possessions good neighborliness is impossible, without the division of tools collaboration is impossible, without the division of labor no common cause is possible .
On both sides you are crowned by two gentlemen,Borders are not only in space. Terminate , i.e. to celebrate Terminalia, to act in the spirit of reverence for terms, means to limit your relationships with other people, with representatives of other ages, professions, religions, incomes, and political views. The art of termination is perhaps the most difficult of all the arts that Russia, more accustomed to the feats of overcoming borders, is now mastering. Termination has nothing to do with aggression, asceticism, military prowess, or humble asceticism - it is the art of drawing boundaries, isolating form from chaos.
Two pies for you, two wreaths for each...
Simply everyone celebrates, and the neighbors feast together,
And they glorify you with songs, Holy term!
To terminate means to establish the terms in which conversations are conducted and all interactions with other people are constructed. Termination is giving words a certain meaning, articulating linguistic meanings, since, as F. de Saussure noted, “there is nothing in language but differences.” There is a ubiquitous expression in English, "in terms of", which is considered a parasite - and yet it is rarely avoided, since it establishes "in terms of what" the conversation is being conducted, i.e. serves as a means of articulation of any topic. A person thinks and speaks, loves or hates, achieves or avoids something “in certain terms.” This kind of termination is the unconscious veneration of Term as the god of borders and boundaries - and on the day of Terminalia, let us honor him consciously and pour honey and wine on those borders that divide us.
It is no coincidence that the holiday between borders was celebrated so solemnly in the most grandiose of all the empires of the ancient world. Empires are sewn together piece by piece, and the consecration of the seams is a celebration of the imperial idea itself as the internal indivisibility and unity of its constituent regions and provinces. That is why for modern Russia, still remaining an empire, it is so important to consecrate not only external, but also internal borders, as signs of its complex integrity. In this regard, of all the Roman customs, it is Terminalia that can occupy a special place in the New Russian calendar.
Defender of the Fatherland Day and the Terminalia holiday are essentially a two-pronged holiday: the protection of external, state borders - and the veneration of internal borders, the boundaries of private property, material and intellectual possessions.
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A holiday, or a secular sacrament, is the basis of the internal organization of any society. The holiday brings together the beginnings and ends of the process (history, evolution) in the middle of which we find ourselves. A holiday is a meeting of memory and imagination within those everyday life where simple habit works, the pathetic art of surviving and keeping up with the current day.
For all Russia’s sometimes excessive love for holidays, this does not apply to private property. Among the national holidays there should be one that celebrates the heterogeneity of this very people , the diversity of possessions, ways of life, internal boundaries and borders that make up such a huge land. The larger it is, the more divisible it should be, the more fancy folds it should contain. That's why we offer Terminalia Day as the first in the new holiday cycle.
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1. Here and below, quotes are given from the book: Ovid, Metamorphoses, M.-Kharkov, Folio, 2000, pp. 395-396.