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IN SLOVAK 197 (265)
Projective lexicon of the Russian language January 13, 2008

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Happy Old New Year to all readers!
Such a long enfilade of holidays - this is the last arch. Happy working days!

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Reviews for the previous issue: Adverbs as predicates.

In the last issue we talked about expanding the category of state, about the fact that all adverbs ending in -o can be used as predicates of impersonal sentences.

The house was warm and loving .
I want us to take it slow. So that we can live forever .
Her cheeks were rosy from the frost.

I received several letters in support of this innovation, with examples to back it up:

1. In Pushkin’s humorous epigram on Kuchelbecker’s protracted visit -

"So it was for me, my friends,
and Kuchelbecker , and sickening."

And with the Word of the Year one can, it seems to me, say:
“Moscow is glamorous ,” etc.

Tatiana Yamazaki. Nagoya, Japan.

2. On the issue of the transition of qualitative adverbs into the “category of state”.
I have heard it more than once in live speech:
"I'm too lazy to do this"
or simply "I'm lazy ."
It seems like the same case.

Sergey Trefilov. "Sergei Trefilov" <st@udmnet.ru>

On my own behalf, I will add the following well-known expressions to the list of predicate adverbs:

to me This is parallel (I don't care, I don't care).

This is perpendicular to me (it’s across me, it won’t work, something needs to be done about it).

I will also note the following Pushkin usages:

and sickening here It’s moldy (Pushkin to N.I. Gnedich,
June 27, 1822)
I wrote to you that Kuchelbecker is for me, on someone else’s
side. Where is Kuchelbecker? (Pushkin to L.S. Pushkin, January 30, 1823)

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Neographemes: interjection icons (Expressive graphics)

Neographema (from the Greek roots neo, new + grapho, writing + suffix -em-, cf. phoneme, morpheme, lexeme ) is a new element of writing, a new graphic sign. include Neographemes emoticons, which over the past decade have significantly expanded the expressive arsenal of online writing. Previously, in "Dar-161" the neographeme ,,, was already discussed - a punctuation mark consisting of three commas , parallel to the ellipsis and called "multi-five".

Today we are looking at 14 more neographemes. We are talking about the expressive graphics of online writing, about those faces, icons, emoticons that are used as interjections that convey the author’s emotional and evaluative attitude towards the interlocutor or the content of his message. Unfortunately, it is difficult to judge the degree of their novelty or, on the contrary, usage: search engines do not allow you to search for punctuation marks (and this is their significant drawback). Therefore, the icons proposed below do not claim to be innovations. It is enough that they are actively used by the authors of this issue - and readers can decide which of these icons will be useful for their own epistolary, diary and other settings.

The last issue featured a letter from the writer Marina Arturovna Vishnevetskaya, author of the book “Experiments”, the novel “Kashchei and Jagda, or Heavenly Apples” and many other famous works for adults and children (including the script for cartoons about the brownie Kuzya). It was her phrases like “the cloud is kudlato”, “the sky is crimson” that laid the foundation for our discussion about predicate adverbs in impersonal sentences. But the letter did not end there. I will quote another fragment from it that sets the theme for this issue.

Marina Arturovna Vishnevetskaya. From characters' correspondence

I’m not sure that the readers of “Dar” may find the new icons that appeared in
correspondence between my two characters. Still, I dare to share them. After all, often
It happens that there are no words or there is no time to look for them. Then they slide off the keyboard
semblance of faces.

This is a sticking out tongue:
(~)
[I'm a little offended, but I don't show it]
[I wrote this to tease you a little, but please don’t be offended]
[I’m feeling crafty today, I just can’t help it!]

This is a tightly clenched mouth:
(``)
[I’m seriously offended, I don’t want to talk!]
[okay, I'll keep quiet while you sulk]

These are eyes, slightly squinted in amazement, and perhaps glasses, slid to one side:
(%)
[I'm shocked!]
[amazing!]
[are you trying to finish me off?]

This is a mouth rounded with joy, with pleasant surprise:
('o')
[Wow!]
[I'm so happy for you]
[I received your letter, and I began to sing]

These are lips all over the face:
(<>)
[I love]
[kiss]

This is a quarrel:
ЯR
[I fall silent for a long time!]

This is reconciliation or a sign of an outstretched hand on any other occasion:
РЯ
[I can’t be silent anymore! world?]
[I completely agree]
[congenially]

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In general, there are a lot of icons invented; blogs, chats, and forums are full of them. There are entire graphons (cf. lexicons) - dictionaries of icons, emoticons. Among them there are many artificial, disposable ones. It seems to me that M. A. Vishnevetskaya’s neographics are distinguished by their visual and semantic clarity, wit and practicality; they are easy to use in written communication.

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Next, I will give several icons that I myself use in correspondence - some more often, others less often.

Selected icons from chats with friends

0.
The most common (and generally accepted) sign is a smile, reduced to a graphic minimum: a colon plus a parenthesis.
:)
Of course it can expand
turn into laughter :::)))
and even into laughter :::::)))))

1.
Quite often I have to mix a smile with tears, i.e. express ambivalent feelings, laughter and grief in half. This is indicated by the symbol: semicolon plus parenthesis.
;)

One eye (dot) laughs, the other (comma) cries, sheds a tear. I call this sign “Gogolian”, since it was Gogol who spoke about his prevailing feeling: “laughter visible to the world and invisible, unknown to him tears.” Let me give you a recent example from correspondence with friends:

Without my knowledge, they gave the article the wildest, meaningless title: “Sonya, Dostoevsky and bribes.” Apparently, they think that the stupider they are, the more attention they will attract. ;)

So, the expressive meaning of this sign is: a bitter smile; sarcasm; both laughter and sin.

2.

Sometimes tears predominate. Then you have to denote them with a series of solid quotation marks: the longer it is, the more abundantly the tears flow.
""""""""""""
Recently there was a message that Russia is preparing to switch to Cyrillic domain names, which could lead to its closure and autarky in the global network space. My reaction:

Did all the turbulent changes of the last two decades boil down to replacing the Iron Curtain with an electronic one? """"""""""" (Solid tears).

3.

Another typical reaction to the events of our crazy, crazy, crazy world is the sign
"the roof has gone crazy":
^>
This is exactly how it slides down, in two triangles: the roof, which is at the top, turns out to be on the side. Meaning: “have they gone crazy there?”, “completely crazy”, etc. This sign, for example, was awarded to the recent election campaign of educators and propagandists who founded the “bears” children’s movement in support of the United Russia big bears:

They also established a hierarchy of organizers and leaders of this movement, at the head of which is the connecting rod bear, the most dangerous of bears, easily bullying a person. This is how they present themselves. ^>

4.

Not everything in this world is human madness and arbitrariness. There are also higher forces, the action of which we sometimes recognize in accidents, unforeseen events, and abrupt turns of events. Such intervention of higher powers is indicated by the corners raised upward. There can be as many of them as you like, depending on the miraculousness of the event and references to the symbolism of a particular denomination. I prefer three corners.

^^^

She was unemployed for six months, then she was invited to work as an hourly translator for a large company trading with Russia - and now she is already a top manager. ^^^

On the way to the conference, our mutual friend accidentally forgot his papers. ^^^
The performance was canceled - to his own good, otherwise he would have ruined his reputation in half an hour.

^^^ reads like this: this cannot be an accident! This is a sign of fate, this is an indication of providence, this is the will of providence.

5.

Sometimes, instead of straight lines and angles, it is appropriate to use a wavy line, which indicates the modality of judgment: hesitation, uncertainty, uncertainty, possibility, fantasy.
~~~~~~~~~~

I’ll quit this damn job and apply to emigrate to Australia. ~~~
Is it better to live among kangaroos than among these bats? ;)

~~~ resembles birds in the sky and reads something like this: who knows! This is what my grandmother said in two. This is still written with a pitchfork on water. These are all dreams, rumors, possibilities, pie in the sky. But why not imagine? What if this is exactly what happens? What doesn’t happen in the world!

They say BG is moving to Moscow. ~~~ Have you heard anything about this?

6.

It’s natural to denote all sorts of difficulties, dangers, and challenges in life with a lattice.
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It is not necessarily a prison or a trap - it is any crossroads, a tangled tangle, a complex interweaving of circumstances, something that it is desirable to avoid or from which one must get out.

Apply for a visa to the American Embassy as soon as possible! You know how long they can mug there. ###

Is it worth pursuing this acquaintance this way? Well, he’ll come and sit and you won’t like it. ### Why unnecessary complications?

7.

Let's return to the smile. Sometimes it spreads over the entire face and becomes a sign of joy and happiness. And how many eyes shine on this face depends on the degree of bliss (colon in parentheses):
(:) joy
(::) jubilation
( :::) happiness
(:::::) bliss
(:::::::) Seventh heaven

In parentheses, closed on themselves, only the eyes remained. This is a blissful smile that spreads across the entire face, filling and rounding it. The sign reads: What joy! I can't believe myself! I'm drowning in bliss!

So did you like my idea? (:::)

After so many delays, the publisher finally sent the contract! (:::::)

Are you really coming? And we will celebrate the New Year together!?! (:::::::)

Of course, it is possible that these signs are already used in a different meaning, or that the same meanings are expressed by other signs. Homonymy and synonymy among graphemes is the same natural phenomenon as among lexemes.

The main thing in graphic signs is the speed of their writing and instant recognition.
If these signs appeal to you, use them!

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