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IN SLOVAKIA #156 (216)
Projective lexicon of the Russian language October 1, 2006

Series "Words about language" (4)
Topic of the week: words with a second stem -letter (1)

star painting
fire painting
sparkle
wood painting
snow painting
sky painting

The language has many complex words with the second stem -writing : painting, sound writing, manuscript, chronicle, cuneiform, icon painting, secret writing, cursive writing, light painting ...
However, the meaning-forming potential of this basis is not limited to this lexical series. Below are several words formed according to the same model. They seem very colorful to me, although the area of their use may
be relatively narrow.

star painting is a star pattern, a set of star signs in the sky.

The star record disturbed the imagination of the ancients and populated the sky with ghosts of animals - lion, she-bear, capricorn, wolf, lynx, whale...

Study the star chart in the celestial book! This alphabet is more basic and universal than any language.

Fire painting - fire pattern, fire writing.

Spark writing is a pattern or writing formed by sparks.

I love fire writing in a dark garden, the hieroglyph of a fire that changes its shape from time to time, so that in one evening a sinologist could read a line from Lao Tzu or Du Fu.

- Yes, and the sparkle rising above it on the black velvet in the star punctures.

wood painting - wood pattern.

Why are you sitting locked up? Look at this autumn tree painting , bare branches on pale blue paper with the emblem of the sun.

snow painting - snow pattern.

the most Of all types of literature, I love the first snow painting on the black November fields . And also drafts of streams and thawed patches on the whiteness of March snow.

“The snowstorm sculpted circles and arrows on the glass...” Look, what a clear snow painting , a real love letter!

skywriting - a description of the sky or heavenly description, as a special property of a style or genre.

In this mythological prose there is an atmosphere of all-encompassing tenderness, blissful clarity, and heavenly sensuality. Something cloudy-cumulus in the style itself. I would like to call it “ sky painting ”... Sky painting is such transparency of writing that all the colors glow with meaning, like clouds glow with light.
“The Divorce of Marriage” by C.S. Lewis is a story about the regions of absentia, a book of high standard.

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Aphorism

There would be much less controversy in the world if words were taken for what they are, as signs of ideas, and not for things as such.
John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher

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Memo

loving - one who is disposed to love, lends himself well to this feeling.

A loving girl is one who is easy to love, with whom you can fall in love.

The bee looks for where it is sticky, and the heart, where it is loving .

Sasha is good, smart, but somehow unloving . There is nothing in him that can be liked or captivated.
( issue 88 )

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