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IN SLOVAKIA #140 (195)
Projective lexicon of the Russian language December 25, 2005
I wish you peace, health, happiness, good luck!
May you hear many kind and wise words, words of love, hope and promises in the New Year - and may they all come true!
Topic of the week: Root -gon- and its derivatives
The root - gon - can be used as the second stem of compound words. Of these, only “moonshine” is used in modern language; are rare The archaisms and historicisms Konogon, Plotogon, Smologon, and the colloquial vetrogon (windy man) . According to this model, a number of new words are formed.
thoughtHe is the one who produces mental products in large and even excessive quantities.
He is the one who produces a lot of hastily made things.
materialism - the desire to increase the gross volume of production, regardless of the criteria of quality and expediency
any one , any one - one or the other who loves passionately, frantically, sometimes indiscriminately, loves love itself, brings a lot of pathos and affect into love relationships.
wave racing (cf. bicycle racing) - windsurfing, a type of sailing, racing on the waves of the surf on a special board with a rotating mast mounted on it.
Persons or organizations wishing to use the words wave racer , wave racer , Vologonia for commercial or advertising purposes should seek permission and copyright from their author, Mikhail Epshtein, at russmne@emory.edu
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Projective lexicon of the Russian language December 25, 2005
Dear friends!
Happy New Year,I wish you peace, health, happiness, good luck!
May you hear many kind and wise words, words of love, hope and promises in the New Year - and may they all come true!
Every New Year is a new beginning of time, a memory of the creation of the world. The world was created by the Word. The creativity of words that replenishes our language is another small tribute to this creative power of the Word.
The next episode of "The Gift" will be released on January 8, 2006.
Topic of the week: Root -gon- and its derivatives
Hon
verbiage, verbiage
string chaser
thoughtgon, thoughtgonny
prophetic, prophetic
anyman, anyman, anyman, anyman
waverunners, waverunner, waverunner, waverunner,
Vologony
In previous issues, we discussed the formation of words from such monosyllabic roots as met, mol'n, vyan, styn, yam, molk ...
As an independent word, "gon" is little used in the Russian language. It is used rarely, in the sense of “action on the verbs “drive” and “chase””, as well as “pursuit, baiting of animals during the hunt” and “the behavior of animals during the mating season” (“deer rut”, “wolves rut”). Meanwhile, the current acceleration of the pace of life and historical processes could significantly expand its meaning and strengthen its place in the language. For example, the title of the famous book "Faster" (lit. "Hurry!") by James Gleick - about the acceleration of everything and everyone in the modern world - could be translated exactly as "Get."
rut - accelerated movement, rapid development, hasty, feverish lifestyle.
The noun " gon ", in contrast to the words "race (for whom/what)", "races (with whom/what)", does not imply an addition, but self-sufficiently conveys the meaning
accelerated movement.
“And he’s in a hurry to live, and he’s in a hurry to feel.” begin for us When did this psychological rush ? In the Pushkin era? From Onegin?
The rut is the main source of stress for residents of large cities.How did you spend this day? - No way, you know it, it’s a continuous rush from morning to evening.
With this daily rush of yours on patients, you will create a mental disorder for yourself.
The root - gon - can be used as the second stem of compound words. Of these, only “moonshine” is used in modern language; are rare The archaisms and historicisms Konogon, Plotogon, Smologon, and the colloquial vetrogon (windy man) . According to this model, a number of new words are formed.
-gon - one who drives any product, produces quickly in large quantities, often of reduced quality.
wordsmithHe is the one who persecutes words, regardless of their measure and quality.
verbiage - verbal overproduction, the pursuit of literary quantity at the expense of quality.
What kind of writer is this, it’s just a bunch of words , I’m confusedstrokogHe is a poet who produces more lines to increase his fee.
thirty volumes that no one reads.Where there is epigonism, there is also verbiage . After all, it is easier to repeat the same steps than to pave new paths.
Mayakovsky of the Soviet period was not only a singer of the revolution, but also a successful strogogon , who arranged his poems in a ladder so that each word was paid at the price of a line.
thoughtHe is the one who produces mental products in large and even excessive quantities.
mental - facilitating the production of thoughts.
He becomes choked in his thoughts and does not have time not only to live them, but even to express them coherently. An inveterate thinker , a sybarite and a thought addict.Every night he takes a thought suppressant at night - he reads several pages of Pascal or Nietzsche, in the expectation that dreams will bring him morning insight.
He is the one who produces a lot of hastily made things.
materialism - the desire to increase the gross volume of production, regardless of the criteria of quality and expediency
This company is not worth doing business with. There are only prophetic people there . Don't buy anything from them!Light industry of the Soviet era was pure materialism . She drove the shaft without thinking about the needs of the consumer.
any one , any one - one or the other who loves passionately, frantically, sometimes indiscriminately, loves love itself, brings a lot of pathos and affect into love relationships.
It will be hard for you with this guy ! He can only love at the full limit of all his strength, like crazy.A lover, a lover - one or the other who chases love victories, the number of conquered people.Tsvetaeva? Yes, she is an artist of love! She needs to infuse every feeling with as much lyricism and tragedy as possible! A real lover !
Lyubogon needs as much love and passion as possible. The lover needs more loved ones and unloved ones.The lover does not chase love, he loves the race itself.
This is my first time meeting such a lover . She needs the shadow of the man leaving to fall on the shadow of the man entering.love , love - love sport, hunting, seeking amorous adventures.
These friends gathered at the resort to compete in any race - who is the biggest and the fastest. This is their summer Olympics.
Once upon a time this was called red tape, in the era of scientific and technological revolution - framing, and now it sounds like sportsmanship - any kind of vanity.
wave racing (cf. bicycle racing) - windsurfing, a type of sailing, racing on the waves of the surf on a special board with a rotating mast mounted on it.
waverunner (cf. cyclist) - windsurfer.
wave-related - related to windsurfing.
wave surfing - windsurfing.
In the Russian language, the ugly, cumbersome, difficult to read and pronounce word “windsurfing” has taken hold to denote this popular sport. In English, where this word is borrowed from, it sounds quite clearly: wind - wind, surf - surf, gliding over the waves on a board during the surf. In this sport, a person moves along the waves, as if racing against them. Hence the simple, clear, succinct name: wave racers and, accordingly , wave racer , wave racer.
Note that in the word “ wave racing a wave, rolls roundly ” there is something wavy: the triple “o”, like across the entire word, ringingly breaking on the shore with the sonorant sounds “l” and “n”, which are also repeated. Resonance, wave swing and splashing pass through these syllables: ol-no-on ... The consonance with the words “bicycle racing”, “cyclist” enhances the visuality of the image.
The wave riders rode the wave like cyclists ride bicycles and rushed into the race.
championship The next wave racing will be held in Feodosia.Have you been driving waves for a long time ? - Since I was ten years old. Wherever I've been!... This summer I'll be surfing the California coast.
It’s not enough for a wave racer to overtake his opponent; he wants to be ahead of the waves themselves.
We had to quickly remove all the wave-propelling equipment to the shore because of the storm. And the wave riders scattered to their tents and took up cards, some took up guitars.
Italian Petrollini was awarded the prestigious Vetro d'Or award, given to the best wave rider of the season. in determining the strongest wave racers . 17 world sports publications, including Wind Express, took part13-year-old American wave racer Bethany Hamilton, a champion in her age among amateurs, lost her arm as a result of a shark attack. The girl and her friend were surfing near Tunnels Beach when she was attacked by a 5-meter predatory fish. She smashed the waverunner board into pieces, after which she rushed at Bethany and bit off her left arm right up to her shoulder... Now the life of the young waverunner is out of danger.
sports club Slogan of the wave racingVolnogonia is a country of waves and those brave who challenge them and race with them.
RACE WITH THE WAVES. Racing with waves.
The word “ Vologonia ”, thanks to its ending “iya”, as in the names of the countries “Russia”, “Germany”, “Italy”, “Japan”, evokes the idea of a whole fairy-tale country, where people compete with the waves, where it is easy, free, lives and moves undulatingly. The word “ Vologonia ” can stand on a par with such names of blessed lands as the country “Inonia” by S. Yesenin or “Muravia” by A. Tvardovsky. This name sounds especially beautiful and significant in the context of such words as “theogony”, “cosmogony”. In Greek, "gony" means "creation", "formation", "origin", so " wavegony " can mean "the origin of the wave" or "coming from the waves, created by the waves", which is quite suitable for the sport designated. So the meaning of the Russian root "gon" and the international "goniya" in the word " wavegony " successfully complement each other.
company is VOLNOGONIA called ; Our is also the name of the magazine we publish for all fans of this sport.Note to readers:
Persons or organizations wishing to use the words wave racer , wave racer , Vologonia for commercial or advertising purposes should seek permission and copyright from their author, Mikhail Epshtein, at russmne@emory.edu
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Aphorism
All the time feeling guilty of my own loneliness,
writing nevertheless greedily dreams of the time when words will finally be happy, it dreams of a language whose naturalness is ideal
image would have anticipated that new and completely Adamic world, where language
will be free from alienation. ...Literature becomes the utopia of language.
Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French thinker, writer, semiotician, critic. "Zero degree of writing."
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Memo (from previous issues)
schastica - a small share, particle, grain of happiness; a brief moment of happiness, the smallness and fleetingness of which makes its experience even more acute.
Elizaveta Yuryevna was quite happy with her family and work, but when she first attended a poetry evening, she suddenly realized what a particle was missing in her life._________________________________________________________________You are still waiting for great happiness, in a year, in two, and yet yesterday a particle flew past you and you did not notice it. And today, now it’s flying. So catch her quickly!
A person is never completely happy. some part He is always missing . For some, this particle is a feature of their own appearance: a straight nose or a slender leg. For some - a summer cottage or a bank account. And in Mishka’s life, such a piece of luck suddenly turned out to be a stamp from the Belgian Congo with the image of a giraffe that he had seen in childhood.
People chase happiness, torture it, never get enough - and yet all their lives they are visited by small particles . A cloud, a lake, a tower... The exact location of objects, a smell, smoke, someone's voice... A flash, a flicker. It is possible to catch a particle , but the cause cannot be established or its path traced. Maybe the soul, like matter, has its own elementary particles - photons, electrons, neutrinos. They instantly flash, flicker, passing through the spiritual field, but their mass and location cannot be determined, they are only where we are able to experience them. They do not have an inert mass of peace - what we call happiness. As the poet said, there is no happiness in the world... But there are particles . (issue 24 )
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1. The word “predictionary” (created by M. Epstein in 2000, published in 2003) is registered as a new word in the English language and is included in the American Dictionary of Neologisms.
Predictionary is a proto-dictionary (pre-dictionary) and at the same time
dictionary-predictor of future words (predict-ionary).
2. In the 10th issue of the magazine “Zvezda” (2005), an article by M. Epstein “ Word and Silence in Russian Culture ” was published.
3. In the 6th issue of the journal “Voprosy Literatury” the article “ Little Man in a Case: Bashmachkin-Belikov Syndrome ” was published.
4. The Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Ex Libris) published an article Sensitive people, sensitive books. On the merits of readers to literature (Dec. 8, 2005).
5. The online magazine “Topos” published the articles “ Four Sides of Love ” (desire, inspiration, tenderness and pity) and “ Lyubol ” (love and pain).
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