Ivan Davydov. Interpol, issue twenty-nine. New meanings of old words, as well as prospects for saving the language

Interpol, issue twenty-nine. New meanings of old words, as well as prospects for saving the language
Ivan Davydov

Publication date: November 17, 2000

Poetry and truth

"Faggots!" - Khrushchev shouted when he got to the Manege exhibition of abstractionists.

If he got into today's Russian Internet, he would decide that he had completely gone crazy."

It was at the recent “Literature Day” that a certain Valery Serdyuchenko presented an article “Pictures from the life of the Russian Internet” . Actually, it’s not so much the title that is important, but the subtitle - “Homo Interneticus. General diagnosis” .

Actually, the article is not worth reading, and it was not worth writing, because the diagnosis is given in the quoted lines, and the article begins with them. Moreover, the author then boringly describes guest books and calls some people even less famous than himself as heroes and builders of the Internet.

However, as many people as there are internets, apparently. And everyone cultivates their own site. So after this write the word “Internet” with a capital letter.

In addition, the article uses a new word "offline".

In general, the appearance of this article indicates that the comrades accepted G. (Gennady, not Mr., God forbid) Zyuganov’s instructions to turn to the Internet. Apparently, there are discussions going on within the party about which side to turn to.

In addition, “The Bottom of Literature” pleases with another hymn text set to old music.

Glory, Fatherland, to our spirit
source and strength and shield from enemies!
The homeland of grandfathers and future grandchildren,
glorify you, glory forever and ever!

The text is not only depressing, especially if you take the time to read it in its entirety, but also offensive to the main part of the red electorate - pensioners. Many of them already have not future, but actual grandchildren. Of which the quoted chorus deprives the Fatherland, our source of spirit and strength and shield from enemies. It leaves, in general, to the mercy of fate, which is, to say the least, outrageous.

In "Tomorrow" the text is much more energetic .

“The indestructible union...” is not just the beginning of a great anthem of a great country. This phrase has always meant to us that we are all united, equal and strong.

But a bunch of monsters, corrupt and deceitful, who betrayed everyone at the call of the enemy, struck the indestructible Union in the back - and strangled the anthem, it seemed, forever..."

A bunch of freaks - this is said well, regardless of the topic of the essay.

In addition, in the latest “Zavtra” there is a mysterious article “Pogrom of the Russian Journal” . You can’t even tell from the headline who was trashing whom, the RJ editors stubbornly refuse to comment, and the text is talking about some other magazine altogether.

“STRANA_RU” , which is named after Roman Leibov, has already decided on an anthem. They vote on what to vote for next. Judging by the current results, winter is beginning in Russia. Please do not look for anything in this phrase other than a primitive statement of a meteorological fact.

The future is just around the corner

An interview with Gleb Pavlovsky was published in "Strana.Ru" named after another name. Pavlovsky talks about nothing more and nothing less than the change of power in Russia. It is worth listening to what Pavlovsky says for a very simple reason - almost everything he talks about subsequently happens. The reasons can be debated.

Just for comparison, a whole wreath of other experts are talking on APN about what will happen. Needless to say, everything will be different.

But more interesting than the whole interview are individual words. They are hidden (presumably, not without intent) under others and are not noticeable. But when you come across them, you start to think.

Here, in my opinion, is the key to everything that is said there, both above and below:

“If we’re talking about oligarchy, then, of course, it was not Gusinsky or Berezovsky who were oligarchs, they simply found a word and played it unsuccessfully. And the truly oligarchic chamber was the Federation Council, where the largest owners in the country sat, quite comparable in fortune to the largest industrialists. An absolutely opaque, overprotected government, armed with all means of protection and, I would say, “indecipherable” for the center, emerged.”

It is especially interesting to compare these words with the words spoken by Gleb Olegovich in an interview with another publication a couple of months earlier :

"... There were two oligarchs at a time . And both of them today do not represent “oligarchic value,” although, of course, they retain a general humanitarian, as well as a certain tax interest."

These are exactly the same two who were mentioned at the beginning of the previous quote.

There is, as it might seem at first glance, no contradiction here. On the contrary, strict adherence is simply not to the laws of ordinary logic, but to the laws of the formation of new political rhetoric.

Where are those two really? It is known that he is wanted, and rightly so. But the word, which by the way was reanimated by Berezovsky, turned out to be endowed with downright magical powers. Convenient. There were two oligarchs at a time, then they disappeared, but for a number of reasons they were needed, so now there are eighty-nine of them.

And to understand what will happen after that, you just need to track the right words. And don’t lose sight of the possibility of new ones emerging.

One of the two demoted oligarchs, now so insignificant that he is no longer recognized as an oligarch, is trying to restore his importance by dangling a hint of documents . Some even think that there will be new elections in connection with this.

These some are partially right. There will be new elections. But not soon. Because such documents do not exist . And the former oligarch himself, and now a worker of the East, knows this better than anyone else.

Which once again emphasizes the assessment given above to Pavlovsky’s words in general: what he says happens. Sometimes even more than once. Here is the same September interview:

“This is a kind of question for Putin, I would even say, for Putin’s firmness. Berezovsky’s step is designed for sticky, protracted negotiations with a vague subject.”

He (Berezovsky - I.D.) , as a person with a strong intellect, sorting through the options, randomly came across the right one, but as a person who fell out of a real situation, he gave it out at the wrong time. He looks like a crazy computer."

Nothing changes in the actions of individual citizens. Or is it a strategy to promote a technology that once failed, hoping that sooner or later it will work? What if it's too late?

By the way, the situation with the demoted oligarch shows that hasty analogies should be abandoned. The most primitive consequence of the above premises is to compare the concepts of “oligarch” in current political rhetoric and “enemy of the people” in relatively outdated ones. A rehabilitated enemy of the people ceases to be a criminal; a demoted oligarch is just getting started.

Among other things, please do not look for any references to the situation with the American elections in the title of this passage.

Sentence

Let's return better to the topic of diagnoses, raised at the very beginning, this time - in conjunction with sentences.

Philologists, in company with deputies, became concerned about the state of the Russian language.

We once wrote about this elsewhere. It was a long time ago...

Well, it's not about us.

So philologists :
“The Russian language, as it turns out, has a lot of enemies. Firstly - and this was admitted by every single person present - the threat comes from the journalists themselves. Modern television and radio presenters often know their native language no better than the audience to whom, in fact, they must show example. Instead, journalists placing emphasis in the wrong places and pronouncing half-baked words from the screen convince viewers and listeners that “that’s how they speak Russian.”

The second and, according to Yasen Zasursky, dean of the Faculty of Journalism, an even more important enemy of the purity of the Russian language is television advertising, which consists almost entirely of speech cliches and jargon.

The Russian language suffers not only among the people, but even in government documents. According to academician Yuri Karaulov, the basic law of the Russian Federation - the Constitution - uses the word “guaranteed” 17 times in a row. But none of these proposals say to whom and who gives guarantees, as required by the rules of the Russian language."

The practical result of the discussion was the appearance of a bill according to which people would be imprisoned for obscene language. Here, by the way, to the previous reasoning: as soon as the law is adopted, the prosecutor’s office will have fewer problems with demoted oligarchs - they will add to the cases the more than once published transcripts of telephone conversations in which the oligarchs did not stand on ceremony both with the Russian language and with their interlocutors.

But the oligarchs, to be honest, don’t particularly interest me in this regard. What interests me more is that after language repressions (this is not about the language, but about the language) the Russian part of the world, as they say in the newspapers, will survive in the global network. I suspect not much. And besides, it’s not the best.

In particular, Valery Serdyuchenko (if you forgot who this is, press the “home” button, not on the browser panel, but on the keyboard; wow, how many foreign words I, a journalist and, therefore, an enemy of the Russian language, used almost in a row) for the article I would definitely have paid my dues. And a reference to Khrushchev does not help the situation.

I believe there is a worthy goal here too.

And I also ask you not to look for special meaning in the initial letters of the words of the previous sentence.

Conclusion

The conclusion naturally follows the verdict. In conclusion, this is an accidental discovery that may reassure both Valery Serdyuchenko and the people he diagnoses.

Newspaper "Duel": "Scouts: the last stronghold against homosexuals" .

Hope is still waiting for its turn. She, I remember, was going to outlive everyone. She is not alone, however.