Book: The language tool. People and words

Network from loneliness does not relieve, because loneliness is not social, but personal. Ancient hermits lived in the dense forests, but loneliness is not experienced.

Travel - love. I'm interested to experience the daily life of the place where people come. To sit on a bench in the Park or dissolved on the street, in nothing to interfere, just to observe.

There are people whose constant and undoubted right makes the lives of others unbearable.

... Any finding - is someone's loss.

Speaking of Dante, Vasily said once that the great Florentine "had one foot in the middle Ages, and another welcomed the dawn of the Renaissance."

One of the dangers is that the boundary between oral and written speech is eroded. You could feel relatively calm, if when recording the spoken word "moved up", becoming richer and more diverse. But it turns out something just the opposite: primitiveservlet writing. The beauty of informal communication is clear to all, and no one offers to write hexameters. No supernatural action is not needed. It is sufficient to remember the existence of, say, subordinate clauses. This alone does not allow speech to be miserable. Look at the language of the chat. Having a formal relationship to written language, it consists entirely the denominative sentences and interjections. And many people develop the habit of writing that way. They carry her on the written word in General.

... The memories of Joseph Brodsky, a neighbor of N. J. Mandelstam (and responsible martirosyana) was in the Pskov communal woman by the name of netsvetaeva. Nothing is more striking in terms of matches I have not seen.

Explaining the invasion of foreign words, they say sometimes that in life there were many phenomena which simply do not have the symbols. In fact, however, it is not so. Even for a computer we had forgotten now the acronym - computer (not saying that it is somehow especially attractive, but - there!). Now, using the computer, obtained from a random sample of loans in a variety of areas: biker, banner, blockbuster, bodybuilding, boyfriend, broker, gamer, dealer, drive, image maker, the killer, a co-sponsor, lifting, logistics, marketing, mainstream, notebook, online, pub, peeling, piercing, price list, promoter, remake, wrestling, roaming, speechwriter, spray, styling, townhouse, a teenager, talk show, top model, trimmer, fire, fitness, freestyle, hangout, chat. I think any unbiased person will agree that for many words from the list (I repeat, random!) there are Russian equivalents. As a mental workout offering to find them right now. Why such a workout is neglected by those who make these words into our lives?

Why are so many borrowed words? Because our country is so well know foreign languages? Obviously, that's not the reason. It is rather the opposite. Foreign words often love just those who not know other languages. Using borrowing, they seem to allude to the fact that they in some way involved in the foreign language field. In the minds of these people borrowed vocabulary as would compensate for their ignorance. A kind of foreign language to the poor.

As a treat, in particular, to borrowing? I, as well as for consumption in General: consider it acceptable as long as it goes for the future. If there is a slight indigestion, from exotic fruit is better to refuse.

Speaking about our passion to borrowing, not to mention another important factor: our inferiority complex. Sounds harsh, but in fact because they are right, and language - impartial witness. If we want the thing (the phenomenon) "was impressive", it certainly referred to as after the English manner. You can imagine the same Russification English? It turns out that in the world we still feel out of place. Our pretentious names designed to indicate the similarity with the strange samples, in fact, indicate only one thing: the secondary. The desire to appear "on the ruble more expensive," looks pretty silly. Why? Doesn't the culture we have created does not allow us to be self-sufficient?

But most of all Utkina was irritated by the loud voice of the employee, which was heard in all areas. Including those where it was not. She responded to all replicas. She answered all the questions - not even to her converted, because questions to her for a long time nobody spoke. Talked about summer vacation, the repair of cottages, the children (starting with youngest) and the parrot, which fell silent only under is applied to a cell with a handkerchief. Removed from his shoulders the shawl and showed how throws it at the cage. Birthday gave her a large Pavlovo Posad shawl, but to explain the meaning of the gift ashamed.

Acquainted with us, Hans-Peter said:
- You know, for friendship to care.

... Advantage of one - that's how life often are the result of limitations of the other. Otherwise, what are these advantages?