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Recently, abbreviations such as nra, lyu, tse have become very widespread: I vaslyu!; All and all; I really like this , etc. This irritates many people: The majority of visitors to such forums are women. What a pain it is to read them. Hundreds of pages of meaningless text with a drop of useful information. Endless “oh how I like it”, “I love you” and other womanish slang, gigabytes of moronic emoticons, smiley brackets and marks exclamation . www.nn.ru/community/gorod/black/?do=read&thread=1873343&topic_id=39695771 ; When people write “^ps”, “lyu”, “nra”, it seems that every letter costs money http://nanastasya.beon.ru/30728-757-kogda-ljudi-pishut-quot-cps-quot-quot- lju-quot-quot-nra-quot-k.zhtml . Of course, it’s not only a matter of saving - not money, but time and effort - otherwise why write: Lulu lulu lulu lulu lulu lulu lulu lulu lu lu lu lu lu lu lyu tse tse tse tse tse tse tse tse tse tse tset tsetse tsetse tsetse tsetse tsetse (I’m not even giving links here, anyone can easily find tons of similar stuff). In 2007, at the “Silver Galosh” award ceremony, a parody song was performed on the motive of the hit “Jaga-Jaga” from the repertoire of Katya Lel (this one, which is also “Musi-pusi”). In this song, a woman invites her lover to beat her for PR: Let's hit you harder, / Break my leg, leg / Scandalous articles / They will write many, many / Then my head will spin from stardom, / And I can't care less about my health... /...And then my already beaten head / From all the covers will look at you … /I will endure that my head is very dizzy/ And the beating makes me want to vomit... Here the fashionable technique of abbreviating words is played out.

But actually, why does this seem so new? Back in the 1964 film “Easy Life,” the lady played by V. Maretskaya sternly asked her husband (played by R. Plyatt): “Liu?” - and he humbly answered: “Liu.” (enough) has long been around The word hwa . Occasionally we also met bu (will you) and ho (would you like). I'm not even talking about the fact that some obscene words have long produced similar variants: the last sound is discarded, and now the word seems to sound more decent. But indeed, the “official” way of shortening words suggests that if they are shortened to more than one letter, then the word is reduced to a consonant or combination of consonants, or the middle or part of the letters is thrown out. After all, how does a schoolchild abbreviate the names of lessons in his diary? Russian language. or Russian, chem. and so on. - and I certainly do n’t say anything. Well, there is also literature or physics. Meanwhile, in other languages ​​there is a reduction to a vowel. Let us recall at least the Italian Fra (i.e. brother - Fra Angelico) or Ca' (casa - house, for example, the palaces of Ca'Rezzonico, etc. in Venice) or the origin of the names of notes - from the initial syllables of the lines of an ancient Latin hymn), and It's happened to us before. I once told a story here about an ancient Russian inscription deciphered by A. A. Zaliznyak. The days of the week were listed there (pya, su, po, etc.) Now we abbreviate differently: Monday is Monday, not Thursday, Thursday is Thursday , etc.

However, one thing you can notice is this. In the speech of very young children who are just beginning to master the language, words are often shortened to the first syllable: ma instead of small, ti instead of pure, etc. But one girl, as I was told, after trying the food, importantly concluded: “Vku.” She also had the word krasi (beautiful). Not all children do this, but only some, and this stage passes quickly. Some of these abbreviations turn into jargon, which is used by both children and the adults who lisp with them: bo-bo, pi-pi, etc. In the film “Crew,” I remember one of the characters spoke to his little son like this: “By ? Gu?" (i.e., let's go for a walk). But the vocative forms ba, ma, pa no longer even sound quite childish.

Without pretending to be scientific, we can say that children’s mistakes are of two types: infantile, so to speak, and creative, so to speak. The first ones come from the unpreparedness of the speech apparatus, the inability to hold a long word in the head, etc. These mistakes are primarily adopted by adults, hence all kinds of words like holosenky, malya (baby), muffynka - and from the same category our morals and loves . In adult speech, they are designed to simulate touching defenselessness and childishness and are, of course, primarily characteristic of women. Other errors are related to this. When we speak, we use two mechanisms at the same time: we generate the necessary shapes and designs, on the one hand, and grab ready-made blocks, on the other. Children have not yet had time to learn a sufficient number of ready-made forms and phrases - they generate much more. Babies give rise to funny forms like kissing (instead of kissed) or, as my daughter did, they form an imperfect form from pay like this: pay (They are buying this doll for me! They are already paying me for it!). K.I. Chukovsky wrote in the book “From Two to Five”: “Why, in fact, do they tell a child about a horse - a horse? After all, a horse is huge for a child. Can he call her by her diminutive name? Feeling all the falseness of this diminutive, he makes a horse out of a horse, thereby emphasizing its enormity. And this happens not only with a horse: for him, a pillow is often a pillow, a cup is a chakha, a dandelion is a dandelion, a comb is a comb. <…> - Wow, what a raw food we found! <...> I asked three-year-old Olya: - Why do you call the rope “rope”? “Would you be pleased,” she explained, “if they call you Kornushka?” Children here use the logic of language, discovering its structure and patterns. I once wrote about popular words in modern everyday language such as tria, pod-tyali, proba. The principle is the same as in the children’s words quoted by Chukovsky, but there is nothing infantile or lisping in such words.

But let’s return to our cutesy characters and the surge in their popularity. I think different things come together here. All sorts of immaturity and vanity are generally in vogue now. And this superimposed on the demand - not only in the Russian language - for all kinds of abbreviations, primarily due to text messages and the Internet. There’s not only morality here, but also pzhlst, not to mention all sorts of IMHO. One of my friends, having moved to America, got a job and soon received a note in which she was asked to do something ASAP (as soon as possible - as soon as possible). Dear Mr. Asap, ” she began her response letter. By the way, now the Russian language has a formula as simple as possible.

Irina Levontina