Hunting to change places

Before the New Year, when an amazing story unfolded with the sudden liberation of Khodorkovsky and his subsequent transfer to Germany, RBC television channel found a particularly elegant formulation to describe this incident: “After Khodorkovsky moved to Berlin ...” Here it is. Sent. Now it is so called.

In the Russian language there are a number of remarkable single-stone verbs, which linguists have repeatedly paid attention to: gather, get, get out.

I’m going to all gather everything; - Why didn't you? -Yes, somehow did not get together; - What did you do today? - Yes, I was going to work all morning, and then the guests came. These phrases are not at all meaningless and understandable. They express the idea that is characteristic of the Russian language that the most difficult in any action is a certain preliminary stage, a special process of mobilizing internal resources. At the same time, the internal inertia, which impedes the beginning of the action, is depicted as an objective obstacle, a factor that a person cannot fully control. Well, as soon as I gathered - it is no longer so difficult to do at the same time a lot of things to do.

How to get there? - The most natural way to formulate in Russian the question of the whereabouts and route (although, for example, how to get there? Also, of course, you can). How to get there is a standard title of the corresponding section of the sites. At the same time, the speaker already knowingly proceeds from the fact that special efforts or a more or less complex algorithm will be required. You can get on foot, by car, by plane or ship, but in any case, the focus of attention is not the end point of the trip, but the process of moving. As Anna Zaliznyak wrote, the verb to get to express the idea of ​​overcoming space. At the same time, it would be a mistake to think that this is just such a formula that is behind which no presumptions about obstacles and difficulties are not worth it. To the question , how to get to you? It is quite possible to get an answer: no need to get - 2 minutes from the "Theater" metro.

Excuse me, I didn’t get out to you yesterday - also a useful phrase. She introduces an idea that it is difficult for a person to leave the house. It is held by many factors - household chores, children, as well as just internal inertia. But even its own laziness in this picture appears as a kind of external circumstance, not quite controlled by a person.

And among these wonderful and somewhat crafty verbs, there is one more - the verb to move. Like to get and get out, to move, it also contains an idea of ​​overcoming space. This is clearly visible in the more specific use of this verb: to cross through the ditch, to move from one balcony to another. You can cross the cornice, but hardly move on the elevator. And when we say that a person moved to another city, we also imagine a complicated process, as, say, in this case: it turned out that last year's summer season stretched for a whole year. Tanya could not move to Moscow. She came quite often for several days, and only now, by the beginning of July, everything began to take shape. Pavel Alekseevich, just before retirement, managed to exhaust a one -room cooperative apartment in the new academic house - for Toma. The former girl was supposed to return to Tanino, though this possession was not sole, but family, along with Sergey and Zhenya (Lyudmila Ulitskaya "Casus Kukotsky). This idea is preserved even when it comes to the simplest movements. When we say: the room became cool, and it moved closer to the fireplace, then we most likely have a picture of a person who slowly wanders around the room, holding a book with an armpit, losing a slippage along the road and dragging a blanket behind him. In the focus of attention, the process of movement itself again turns out to be.

And it is especially significant that there is an idea to overcome inertia into the move . The main obstacle may be that it is simply difficult for a person to gather and leave the place where he was. And this obstacle is a language as an almost objective circumstance. When we say, the company moved to the kitchen, we mean that we were sitting well in the room, but what to do, children have to sleep, have to make an effort, stand with a sigh from their own places and, taking a cup or glass, move to the kitchen.

Now let's return to a wonderful phrase about Khodorkovsky, who, they say, moved to Berlin. As we have seen, such a phrase should be understood in the sense that a person moves somewhere on his own, and this is most likely not fast, at every stage his person overcomes some obstacles. Perhaps even just your own laziness and indecision. It is difficult to imagine a less suitable verb in a situation where the prisoner is taken somewhere, not only preventing him from choosing a route, but not even informing him of his destination. And what is the gradual when all magical movements are performed in a matter of hours? It is just right to talk not about sorting out, but about telepositing. What are the obstacles, when a foreign passport with a visa is materialized fantastically?

But this phrase is ridiculous or mockingly only for those who watched the situation unfolded. A person who knows about this movement from her has a completely understandable picture: well, yes, we stay here, but he thought, thought, but what I will be with you here. I better slowly move to where it is cleaner and calmer. Well, a clear thing, a person thinks, there is money, what can not be moved.

After all, what's the cunning? In the Russian language, there are many opportunities to present a person’s own actions as something like natural processes that a person does not fully control, thereby partially removing responsibility from him. Well, I didn’t get out ... I didn’t get together ... The situation is described here when little depends on a person, but the choice of the verb delicately obscures this circumstance. It would be possible, for example, to say: why did Khodorkovsky not celebrate the New Year at home for 10 years? Yes, somehow did not get out. ..

Well, finally got out , and that’s okay.