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Projective lexicon of the Russian language February 19, 2006
NEWS
Over the past week, two more of my articles have been published:
Zero cycle of the century. Explosion - explosive style of the 2000s (Zvezda, 2, 2006)
http://magazines.russ.ru/zvezda/2006/2/ep16.html
Dear friends! Let me remind you that “The Gift of Speech” is open to your one-word comments. I always look forward to your letters, ideas, comments, observations of new words and especially the new words themselves. Unfortunately, publications are sometimes very late compared to letters, but everything worthy of attention and requiring a response necessarily appears in “The Gift.”
This word was in your article on http://grani.ru/Internet/Netcult/m.2576.html
It’s interesting that I met him in a Riga paper newspaper on computer and Internet topics. Networkers and people living on the Internet.
Anatoly Ukhandeev
I live in Naberezhnye Chelny (Tatarstan), graduated from the journalism department of Kazan State University.
Fully Russified Chuvash. Poet, critic. Poems are nowhere
published (except for the university newspaper and the Internet), articles
I publish in local newspapers, I run a column of book reviews in
weekly. Word lover. Poetic pseudonym: Anton Rair.
can neither read nor write.
nature), when it is impossible to express the beauty of being in words, but
you can only gasp. This definition has just arisen, occasionally,
perhaps unfounded.
Boris Tseytlin (Israel), physicist, literary critic, cultural scientist.
Projective lexicon of the Russian language February 19, 2006
Congratulations to dear readers on the upcoming holiday
Honoring Borders - Happy Terminalia Day (February 23)!
About the historical meaning of this holiday and why it calendar coincides with Defender of the Fatherland Day (formerly the Day of the Soviet Army and Navy),
see the article at the end of this issue (published two years ago in Novaya Gazeta , it marked the beginning of a rethinking of the symbolism of this day).
NEWS
Over the past week, two more of my articles have been published:
Zero cycle of the century. Explosion - explosive style of the 2000s (Zvezda, 2, 2006)
http://magazines.russ.ru/zvezda/2006/2/ep16.html
Variety of love experiences. Talents. Genres. Styles (Topos)
http://www.topos.ru/article/4438
Dear friends! Let me remind you that “The Gift of Speech” is open to your one-word comments. I always look forward to your letters, ideas, comments, observations of new words and especially the new words themselves. Unfortunately, publications are sometimes very late compared to letters, but everything worthy of attention and requiring a response necessarily appears in “The Gift.”
Guest editions feature words submitted by readers and subscribers. Write to me at russmne@emory.edu Mikhail Naumovich Epstein. Subject: dar Encoding KOI8
GUEST EDITION - 18
Guests and authors of this issue are Galina Berdichevskaya, Anatoly Ukhandeev and Boris Tseytlin
Galina Berdichevskaya (Riga, Latvia), participant of guest issue 14.
Cognizer
A person who strives to understand phenomena and events that fall within the scope of his attention.
A child, as a rule, is an innate cognitive learner . He is interested in everything he sees and hears. His endless “whys” and “whys” are an example to follow for most adults, whose sphere of interests is incomparably poorer, with rare exceptions.An educator is a person who willingly shares his knowledge and skills with everyone who is interested in them.
An educator is not necessarily a professional teacher.Setian
Any kind and sympathetic person is by nature an educator for those who do not know, but strive to learn something known to the educator .
This word was in your article on http://grani.ru/Internet/Netcult/m.2576.html
It’s interesting that I met him in a Riga paper newspaper on computer and Internet topics. Networkers and people living on the Internet.
Anatoly Ukhandeev
I live in Naberezhnye Chelny (Tatarstan), graduated from the journalism department of Kazan State University.
Fully Russified Chuvash. Poet, critic. Poems are nowhere
published (except for the university newspaper and the Internet), articles
I publish in local newspapers, I run a column of book reviews in
weekly. Word lover. Poetic pseudonym: Anton Rair.
Hello, Mikhail
Your “Gift of Speech” is a most necessary thing, it’s a pity that the study
still captures mainly online literature (your references to
Yandex and Google, as an indicator of the introduction of words into the language). New
words are necessary for the language, of course. However, often the words you suggest seem dissonant or too artificial to me and some of my friends. For example, “love,” it really sounds like “fuck.” The word “to be loved,” on the contrary, is charming, even though it is not very new (I don’t remember where, but I saw it in Russian classics and in translations).
From the penultimate issue, “ ambiteism ” was very much in the spirit.
I’ll offer my word, a long time ago, since my youthful exercises in
word creation, is cherished by me and caressed by rare pronunciation in
circle of friends.
Restlessness
1. (oxymoron) A poem without verses, in which there is not a single
lines. Can be used ironically in relation to bad people,
mediocre poetry, especially poor free verse.
“Vasya again brought some kind of nonsense to our meeting , read for about ten minutes and at least one line with mystery, with poetry in sounds.”2. The state of the creator in which he does not hear, does not feel poetry,
can neither read nor write.
“Vanya was attacked by such insanity , even a howl!”3. The state of the world, the universe, when there are no poems, when poetry has died.
"The true death for humanity will be silence ."4. (poetic) A quiet joyful feeling when contemplating (especially
“Those who have gone cannot be returned to the brutality ...”
nature), when it is impossible to express the beauty of being in words, but
you can only gasp. This definition has just arisen, occasionally,
perhaps unfounded.
“A truly joyful experience for a poet is verselessness , when it is not darkness and hopelessness, but a kind of shock from the simultaneous feeling of one’s insignificance and one’s inseparability from a beautiful existence.”With your help, I would like to make public one more word:
Godless - deprived of God.
To de-godize is to deprive of God.
Godlessness is the absence of God.
The word very well, in my opinion, expresses the meaning of the past Soviet years,
when by word and deed people were deprived of the idea of God, faith, sin -
deified the people. But to no less an extent we can talk about
godlessness of modern consumer culture. Talk about God
It’s a shame(!), believing in God is ridiculous(!), reading the Bible is extravagance(!). Christians attract more surprise and resistance than Satanists. We can talk about the godlessness of modern churches and religions: when actions and thoughts without God are hidden behind stereotypical and cynically repeated general phrases from scriptures and laws.
I first used this word in an article about the book by L. Petrushevskaya,
which is called “ Godless ” (zhurnal.lib.ru/r/rair_a_a). IN
in the book “Unripe gooseberries” Petrushevskaya mercilessly describes
people who have lost not only God, but also any
landmark in life. Devoutly religious people see the tendency towards the deification of civilization as a harbinger of the Last Judgment.
Existentialists Camus and Sartre may seem like godless people ,
but disbelief in God is not yet godlessness. It's no coincidence that Dante refused
to place Homer and other great pagans in hell. No-belief, no-belief
does not mean the absence, destruction of God, but only the absence of faith in
him or conscious resistance to him. Godlessness in absolute -
a state when not only is religion lost (and this word translated from Latin means “connection”), but the idea of the possibility of religion or faith is completely lost.
Godless
1. Deprived of God. Can mean a person or a community
people, or the idea, deprived of a spiritual connection with God, deprived
ideas about God, faith, religion. Especially thirsty for faith, but not
able to find her.
2. (rarely and only in the mouths of devout believers) Having lost faith and religion
Human. Stopped believing in God and his teachings. In a narrower sense
- a person excommunicated from the church, although excommunication does not always mean
deification
3. A people or settlement deprived of symbols of faith (temples, icons, statues).
Can be used colloquially. However, this meaning is much less
desirable for the word.
With respect to your work,
Anatoly Ukhandeev
Boris Tseytlin (Israel), physicist, literary critic, cultural scientist.
I just read your article about the Russian language in the 21st century . I completely agree with you, and this worries me no less than you. It seems that language for the people has become nothing more than a tool of communication, the insensitivity of language is absolutely terrifying - and this, if we remember Mandelstam, is a sure sign that the people themselves are commanding to live long. It's either Hebrew! Now, however, it is also deteriorating. And it is still amazing that almost all the words are “our own”, and of the borrowed ones, Greek ones predominate, like “theatron” and “museon”, which got there already in Hellenistic times. Even computer vocabulary is almost all from “its” roots. For example, “computer” is “makhshev”, which can be translated into Russian as “ dumnik ”. Why not use this word to call a computer in Russian?
In one of the guest issues, a reader from Israel suggested introducing Hebrew words meaning this day, this month, etc. into the Russian language. The proposal would be reasonable if the Russian words were changed accordingly. So I propose to add to the already existing DAY: NIGHT, MORNING, EVENING, WEEK, GOOD, MONTH.
I didn't get enough sleep this morning.
I'm going to a show this evening.
I hope to change my job this MONTH.
THE round date is one year old.
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TERMINAL DAY
1.
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 consecrating 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!..”
2.
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.
Despite all Russia’s sometimes excessive love for holidays, this does not yet 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.
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