“The word controls the brain, the brain controls the hands, hands control the kingdoms” (V. Khlebnikov).
The network project of philologist, philosopher, cultural scientist Mikhail Epstein “The Gift of the Word” has been published since April 17, 2000. The main topic is the art of creating new words and concepts, ways to update the vocabulary and grammar of the Russian language, the development of the root system, and the expansion of word formation models. Every week on Sundays, subscribers are sent several new words, with interpretations and examples of use. These words are not in any dictionary, and yet they denote significant phenomena and concepts for which there has not yet been a place in the language and public consciousness. Modern Russian (and any) language is only one slice of the linguistic continuum, which extends into the past and future, and it virtually contains thousands of words that have not yet been identified, not pronounced, but are called into speech as the historical consciousness of the people expands , and in turn expanding it.
Each word is transferred to all subscribers and readers for free use. It can become the theme and focus of the coming week, the subject of meditation and literary creativity. “The Gift of the Word” also publishes verbal inventions of other authors (“guest issues”), holds discussions about the Russian language, and discusses letters and suggestions from readers. “The Gift of the Word” can serve as a guide to word creation, an introduction to the linguosphere and concept sphere of the 21st century, to the world of linguistic fantasies and mental technologies.
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Thematic series: Words about language
153. Albanian language: spelling, fanetics (2) Reader's issue 14 . Speech and language word creation, neophrasy (creativity of phraseological units), the law banning foreign words, etc.
Reader's Issue 15 . Periodic structure of language. Comments on the words "Dara". Vocative case. "Evening Kharkov".
Guest Issue 21 . Heinrich Pfandl, Boris Lichtenfeld, Arthur, Zurab Bezhanov, Andrey Vinogradov. Bypassed, evolutionary, all-language, smelly... (58)
Guest Issue 22 . Alexey Filimonov, Alla Popova, Vladimir Nikulin,
Domety Zavolsky. Zero-shaped, pop-eyed, listening, fire... (37)
165. The Center for Creative Development of the Russian Language has been created. Compound adjectives : life-loving, God-loving, fame-loving, rank-loving, money-loving, etc. (18)
166. Name of the century (1) . Is it possible to define the 20th century in one word? 21st? Potential-patent. Steel-forming. Mogovek. Mozhevest. (4)
167. Good and evil (1) . Old and new dictionaries. Good-natured. Kind and kind. Good language. (5)
168. Good and evil (2) . Lexical and lexicographic development of Russian and English languages. Poetic neologisms of V. Khlebnikov and M. Tsvetaeva. Kindness, kindness.
prt. (short for "against") (5)
169. Good and evil (3) . Goodwill. Maliciousness. Good vision and evil vision. Benevolent. Agatocracy. Kindness. Malice. Evil. Evil (25). Words by T. Olshanskaya and A. Filimonov: goodness, malice, goodness. (6)
170. Good . Name of the century (2) - letters from readers and generalizations. The century of breakthroughs, progress-aggression. Perevek. Explosive Psychoreality. Imaginarium. Thought being. (7)
171. About mental and physical intimacy . Sochelovek, sotelo, soflost, corpora and corpus. (8)
172. Word of the year . 2006: "oplutonize" and "oplutonize". Milestones of history. The word for decades is “network,” for centuries is “jazz,” and for millennia is “she.” Russian perspective 2006: "polonium, polonize, polonization." February 23 – Terminalia Day , holiday
veneration of borders (in honor of the ancient Roman god Terminus). (4)
Guest edition 23 . Jubilee word "intelligentsia". AO Filimonov. News vocabulary: memory, disappearance, lie, word loss, funeral, chronology (43)
173. Russian-English word "man". Man - that sounds loving! Person to person - love. New words about love: “lyubol” (love is like pain), “loving” (playing love), “lyunov” (new and youthful love). “Lubo-” is the basis of complex words: “loving”, “lyubomig”, “lovingly stupid”, “love-dependent”... (29)
174. Current words (1) . Oil oligarch - oil oligarch (oil), oligarch in disgrace (oh whether). Nonsense is advertising that is nonsense and rubbish. Sexuality is a mixture of sexuality and suspense, glamour. PR noir (PR noir) is dark, infernal, ominous PR in the aesthetics of the creepy and ugly. (9)
175. Current words (2) . To the 4th anniversary of the war in Iraq. To attack is to attack, invade under a plausible pretext. To go crazy - to go crazy, to make a rash move, to set yourself up, to get into trouble (like the United States in Iraq). The Iraqis are the party of the war with Iraq. Totalgia (totality + nostalgia) - longing for integrity, for totality, for the totalitarian system, for the Soviet past. Totalgic , totalgic. Astralgia is a longing for the stars, for space. Urbalgia - longing for the big city. (8)
176. About the position of the Russian language in the world . Answers to questions from "New Time". Statistics.
177. Feelings and relations (1). Psychoteka, soul twist, soul dance, reveal. (6)
178. Feelings and relationships (2). About joy. To please, cheerfulness, rejoicing, self-pleasure, self-pleasure, to be happy, to be blissful. (10)
179. Words about thinking and thinkers (For the Day of Intellectuals). Sophistication, sick-mindedness, wit, recklessness, empty-headedness, quiet-mindedness, ardent thinking. (33)
180. “Daru” - 7 years old. Anniversary issue . Seven beautiful and seven useful words.
Year eight (2007-2008)
181. Current words-3 . Amerossia , Ameross . Nanotechnology and smart dust. Dust collector, dust collector, dust blower, thought dust, dust collector, dust collector . Mentalin is a mental vitamin, a dietary supplement to enhance brain function. Mysletka is a tablet for the mind. Technoecstasy is an ecstatic experience of unity with technology, drug addiction to the technological environment. (12)
182. Feelings and relationships (3). Sadness and longing. To be sad, to be sad, Toskovia, sadness, life-sad, sad. (10)
183. Conversation with A. Genis about the Russian language. Dialectological expedition to the Seliger region and the upper reaches of the Volga . Speech-bearers, word-givers and words written down from them, among which were “projective” ( lyubky, osebeyshchik, self-righteous, etc.). A small dictionary of the local dialect: nalivokha, perespelka, podnebesnitsa, chukavy, etc.
184. The longest words . Anti-state-entrepreneurial. (7)
185. Double prefixes-oxymorons : under- and over-. Under-fulfill, under-praise; oversupply, underdeveloped.
186. George Orwell. New words (first publication of the article in Russian translation).
187. Feelings and relationships - 4 . To be heard, ringing, sodarny, suedarny, to warm up. (9)
188. Feelings and relationships - 5 . Terschik, ran, friendly, attitude. (7)
189. -Navtika and -nauts . Infonautics, virtonautics, psychonautics, egonautics, erotonautics, sexonautics, thanatonautics. (14)
190. Verbs of death . To die, to die, to die. (3)
191. Holiday proposal: Dictionary Day . "All power belongs to time!" Manifesto of chronocracy.
192. Topical words-4. Convinced, underhanded, underarmed, kingmaker, expression of will. (8)
193. Word of the year 2007 - letters from readers. Section "The Fate of the Word". Arks . (1)
194. About fears . Reaphobia, fear of people, fear of women, fear of children, love of fear (13)
Reader's competition issue 16 . Election Word of the Year. Political specificity . (1)
Word of the year 2007 . Results, review, press release. Words: 1. Glamor . 2. Nano- . 3. Blog
Antiwords: 1-2. Creative . Political specificity . 3. Successor
195. About time . Momentariness, instantaneousness, different hours, time-turning. (5)
196. Predicate adverb in an impersonal sentence : expansion of the category of state. There is love in the house. Cheeks are rosy
197. Neographemes: icons-interjections (Expressive graphics). M. Vishnevetskaya: YR - quarrel, RY - reconciliation. M. Epstein: ^ > - “the roof has gone crazy”, ^^^ - signs of fate. (7+7).
198. About linguistic criticism. Prepositions "before", " before after " and " before before " . (2)
Guest issue 24. About consistency. Peter Golovanevsky. Models of word formation in Hebrew.
199. Prefix "o" : regular formation of transitive verbs from nouns and adjectives. (1) To interrogate, to qualify, to make comfortable, to experience, to specialize, to exist, to habituate. (15)
200. Prefix “o” (2): to capitalize, to inseminate, to plot, to literaryize, to Shakespearean. (14)
201. Russian language: system and freedom. Article (1) . The struggle between the system and the norm. Derivational superseries (hyperparadigm)
202. Russian language: system and freedom . (2).Anomalies and regular patterns. Practical systematization of language. V. Dahl's dictionary as descriptive and projective.
Guest Issue 25 . Gleb Romany. Foreign-Russian dictionary (translation of borrowings)
203. Network fame and vanity . Egonetics. Google it. Google is a unit of network fame, an information currency. (7)
204. Network words and terms . Shortcut: screed. Elonym is an electronic name. (3)
205. Difficult to translate English words : self-defeating - self-defeating, eligible - entitled, survivor - survivor, suspense - delay. (9)
206. 1.Is the word “intelligentsia” outdated? 2. Collective improvisation: creativity through communication.
207. Thinking in Russian: a view from abroad . Features of our rotating tongue.
208. 1. Why do intellectuals need their own holiday? 2. Reader's issue 17. Linguistic marketing, nanostics - “thought dust” and “thought pollen”, etc., etc.
209. “Daru” - 8 years old. Anniversary issue. Geography of subscription. L. Savchenko about "The Gift".
Year nine (2008-2009)
210. Logic and lyrics of projective work in language. (1) What is a superlanguage? Resurrection of language: energies, not substances. A new word is a whole sentence
211. Logic and lyrics (2) . Drops of silence. The word and " ". The word cannot be invented. Write a language? Performative linguistics - and linguistic performance.
212. About pain and illness . To hurt whom, what. A sick person, a sick person, a sick person, a saint of God. (5)
213. 1. To hurt someone..., about what. 2. To the history and meaning of the word "scoop".
214. "Child noisy to God." Addressability of existence. Deep dative case . Live, think, love, be sad, yearn, breathe for someone
215. Neophrasy -1 . Creativity in the genre of phrases. New phraseological units about vision. "Beauty is in the pupil of the beholder." "Look at someone through your eyelashes." “It’s better to visit once than to see a hundred times.” Reworked proverbs are foreign words.
216. Neophrasia - 2 . Policy. "Federation Object" "Orgy of Order" "Historical Autism". "Suppressed Minority" "Career Liberal"
217. Neophrasia - 3 . Relationships between people. "Make someone's day (month, year, life...)." "Mania of influence, phobia of similarity." "Invisible (internal) reader."
218. Neophrasia - 4 . Intimacy, desire. “Pillow talk” (heart to heart, on a pillow). "Kama Sutra of the Subconscious". "Line of desire (attraction)." "Passive choice".
219. Neophrasia - 5 . The power of repetition, penetration. "The Macaque Problem." "Sonic (ear, eye, brain) worm." "Depth of Hearing" "Long (short, deep, shallow) hearing."
Word of the Year - 2008 (1) . Competition conditions, criteria, categories. Everyone's off to the polls!
220. Towards the vocabulary holiday on November 22. Mannotechnologies (V. Linnik). Obamana (Obama + manna). Lapik (laptop). (1+2)
221. Neophrasia - 6 . O motionless. “Pin a butterfly to the air / pin a rainbow to the sky.” (2)
222. Neophrasia -7 . "Potatoes on the couch (couch vegetable)." "Desk mouse." "Keeper of the Ashes" (3)
223. Neophrasia – 8 . " Whose plane would I get on? "
Word of the Year 2008 (6). Election results Words .
224. Magic, logic and aesthetics of the word . Dictionary entry as a genre and as a holistic image of the semiosphere.
225. Words about reading and writing . Emperor. Scriptorics. Reader. Unibook. Egoliterature and egoliterature. Read and write. (8)
226. The role of errors and typos in word creation . Createma. Vomiting. Budba. Loneliness. Springing (M. Vishnevetskaya) (4+1)
227. Words about love . Love. Touchy. Kissable. Huggable. Aggregative. Lifting and dropping , shifting and moving away , agreement , whispers. Creamy, sticky, blind. Soyutie, soyutny, soyutnik. To despise, despised. Fucking. The grammar of love. (20)
228. Current words-5 . Anti-crisis and crisis are synantonyms. Confidently. Socio-religious words. Religarchy. Orthodoxy.(4)
229. Diminutiveness in the Russian language : socio-ethical approach (article). "Lubelka" by V. Pavlova.
230. Patronyms and matronyms (patronymics and patronymics) (beginning of article)
231. How do you like your mother? About the Russian name system (end)
232. Another way to verbalize the language. Denominal intransitive verbs with suffixes -e- (1). Morning, night, spring, winter, cherry, pear, son, daughter (11)
233. Denominal intransitive verbs with suffixes -e-, -ene- . (2) To become strange, to become friendly, to become closer, to sanctify, to love, to become peaceful, to bloom, to grow silent, to become thoughtful (12)
234. Hiccupping on a letter. Word creation with the letter -Y- , the most hysterical vowel of the Russian language (skrip, vyzg, principle, hysteria, Marxism, conscience, game, distort). (8)
235. In memory of Alexey Parshchikov. Metaphysical words-1 . Excessive. Quietness. Mestosila. Globusty. Megalogos. Logopolis. Mentopol. Noography.(8)
All speech examples in the Dictionary belong to the author-compiler, but he is as far from the opinions expressed in the Dictionary as a novelist is from the statements of his heroes. The task of the Dictionary is to present as widely as possible a variety of contexts and situations of possible use of a given word, and not to express certain views or share experiences. Speech examples are designed to demonstrate the full range of possible uses of new words:
-from scientific to everyday life;
-from religious-apocalyptic to newspaper-journalistic;
-from realistic and avant-garde prose to folk ditties;
-from a philosophical treatise to a school essay.
It is up to the reader to judge to what extent these typical quotations reproduce certain styles of modern writing and thinking. It is not always possible to clearly draw the line between statements that are always your own (in terms of composition) and often not your own (in terms of content). Such is the flickering aesthetics of the dictionary, where the distance between the author and those whose virtual speech he records either lengthens or shortens.
“The Gift of the Word” continues M. Epstein’s previous project “ The Book of Books, or the Dictionary of Alternative Thinking .” One of the goals of the new project is the creation of a “Dictionary of the lexical and conceptual capabilities of the Russian language.”