The ears of Karenin

Many years ago, in some novel, I was struck by one scene. There the hero comes to visit the sick heroine and talks to her, trying not to breathe, because he is unpleasant for the sour smell that he connects with the painful state of the girl; However, then he understands that it smells like a saucer with lemon slices, standing on a bedside table by the patient’s bed - and this very smell inhales with pleasure.

This happens with the words: often we are sympathetic to us that we are used to hear from some people who are like us or in pleasant situations. And if we learn the word from people not at all sweet, if it is not quite pleasant for us for us, it is unlikely to have a chance to fall in love with us especially

In the newspaper "Moscow News" there is a section "Word and Antiolvo". Recently there was an interview with Boris Akunin. And so he said there: - There is many Words who are me annoying , but Neither One from them on Antiosal Not pulls . I tolerate Not I can when in answer on "Kind morning" Answer "Kind" . Clutch for Pistol when​ They say "voiced" V Meaning "said" . Tolerate I hate it when word "enough" Use not By purpose . AND Still - this already Intelligent Affentation - not I love when they say "smooth" V Meaning "exactly" . http://mn.ru/society_edu/20120629/321696021.html

I'm talking about exactly I want to say. Normally smooth It is associated with the indications of the quantity: Rivne So much , exactly 5 kg . And Akunin speaks of the specific, wider use of this word: Rivne So We And we say ; I I have V sight smooth This ; This is exactly Such situation etc. The standard here would be for sure Or exactly - or, as Akunin offers, namely . I am so even It is very familiar - moreover, I myself say so, however, I try not to abuse.

The thing is that such a use of a word is exactly its own story. Half a century ago, a department of theoretical and applied linguistics was opened at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University (now it is called that again, and the main part of the time was called Osil - the separation of structural and applied linguistics). And there, a young linguistic shoot blossomed with a magnificent color. These were students who were taught completely special linguistics, almost to anyone from us unknown - and which, unlike other philologists, were taught mathematics. They felt like an elite, possessing sacred knowledge, and besides, students and teachers of little Osiplas existed in a hostile environment - evil forces all the time tried to close the department. Meanwhile, this very structural linguistics promised so much and so soon. It seemed to be a stone's throw to the machine translation and to artificial intelligence. The Golden Age was on the threshold, in a word.

And is it worth it to be surprised that the new structural linguists enthusiastically picked up the words heard from V. A. Uspensky or A. A. Zaliznyak, as a sign of belonging to the highest caste. That's exactly This is where this non -standard moat arose . Linguists grabbed him from mathematicians. It was important - after all, there was an idea that here linguistics finally became a real science by concluding an alliance with mathematics.

Somehow, all this merged-and the rapture of science, and the feeling of chosenness and brotherhood, and the characteristic laughter of all the adored stalls-and his beloved (still beloved) evenly . U By the way, I borrowed this word on the ground, even if I did not study on Osiple.

In an amazing way, the word so has existed in the speech of the linguists for several decades: it has not disappeared nowhere, and does not lose its specific coloring. Of course, during this time he was somewhat captured, and the youth went to use him at all on business. Probably, through the former Osilts, this is the most smooth In some places it also spread among some people, from all this problem of distant ones-we, of course, will annoy, as when painter waste us dirty Madonna Rafael .

I wonder where I overheard such exactly Grigory Shalvovich? I understand that if he heard him just like that, without this whole story, without the whole context, it, of course, seemed to him an empty scum. We are sentimentally and carefully store it in our vocabulary.

Yes, by the way about Rivne . A few years ago, he had one more - and rather vulgar - use: A u me All exactly ! I finally smooth Boy . Everything is cool, that is.

So. If the word is connected for us with the unsympathetic character, we are most likely disadvantaged. It's like Karenin's ears: in Petersburg , only What remained new train And she I went out , the first The face that turned her Attention was​ face husband . “Ah , God my ! Why u him steel such ears ? " - thought She , looking on his Cold And Representative figure And especially on Amazing her Now cartilage Ears , propagated Fields Round Hats .

A striking example is a story that happened with the word vessel . Most citizens first learned him from V. I. Matvienko, who proposed to fight the vessels With the help of a laser. And then everything somehow came together: the snowdrifts knee-deep right at Palace Square, and people who were killed by blocks of ice and people who were infuriated by snow-pacifiers, and Matvienko’s forever self-propelled appearance with its fur coats and tsatski, and Manilov reasoning about the laser. Vessels They were met with homeric laughter and numerous parodies. The most famous is Paul's poem Chapchitsa :

Cut laser vessels ,
IN face Evables Snezhins .
To Stop reached Lee ,
IN snow Not drowned boots ?
A Houses Waiting me Tarela ,
Tarela buckwheat With White drill ;
IN The legs are rubber Ground​
AND Taps Soft under chair ... -

Well, etc. www.online812.ru/2010/04/16/014/pda.html .

Grech , by the way, - so it is in St. Petersburg that they say. Like Kura . And all sorts of snowflakes there quite in line with a conversational trend: a warehouse , a sample on Trehe , pulling in the order that I already wrote about, etc. My daughter asks me this morning: and Where my Flash ? The flash drive, therefore, lost somewhere.

Vosul is a normal old word, it is full of dialects, you can find in the texts of Vasily Belov, Boris Shergin. Of course, Valentina Ivanovna in a fur coat and with her haircut, and with her important appearance, it was reliable or hopelessly compromised. But if we recognized him, say, from Nabokov? Here: with sand, like red cinnamon, the ice was strewn, wrapping the steps of the porch, and from the ledge of the roof, by the tidies down, thick vessels were hanging through the greenish blue. The snowdrifts approached the very windows of the outbuilding, tightly kept a stunned wooden building in a frosty vice (Christmas, 1925). I don’t know whether it is worth mentioning Andrei Bely, this is a lot for an amateur. But still - this is not Matvienko with a laser: and there was no snowmail; Otai - froze; The vessels did not melt; The great martyr Katerina was a snow capture; For her, grunting, the frost penetrated; He - led to Christmas, flashed with Christmas trees, cracked with a baptism, was erased by hoarfrost of the whole merciless January (Moscow. Part 1. Moscow Ecadak, 1926).