The vocabulary of any language is updated and enriched gradually. Plays a significant role in this borrowing foreign words. English words are increasingly used in Russian speech in relation to:
- science (astronaut, monitoring, master's degree);
- technology (display, scanner, file);
- politics (speaker, inauguration, consensus);
- Media (prime time, talk shows, online);
- Finance (business, auditor, investment);
- culture (hit, bestseller, remake);
- other areas.
Youth slang is full of foreign words.
Language performs the function of communication, so it is forced to quickly respond, record and reflect all the changes that occur in people’s lives. Modern Russian speech is full of foreign words that young people actively use. Slang in Russian culture has its own characteristics and origin.
- formed according to some characteristic (among people who are united by interests, area, age);
- subject to periodic changes (is a linguistic sign of different generations);
- affects only vocabulary (words are used in a different meaning, but the structure (cases, tenses) does not change);
- always has a relaxed, somewhat familiar tone (although slang often hides the true meaning of the conversation).
The vocabulary of youth is different:
- using expressions in the “superlative degree”: super, great, zero cool, well, there you go, gee;
- the presence of fashionable words: kumpel, fashion, sargnagel, strick, karre, freestyle; (cm. )
- introducing new expressions and words related to hobbies, popular clothes and music: Twist, Rock’n Roll, Slop, Madison, Blues, Shake, Hully Gully, Wiggle.
Anglicisms in Russian speech
In the everyday vocabulary of Russian-speaking youth, more and more words borrowed from English slang are used. It’s easier for young people to express their point of view this way. On the contrary, it is more difficult for the older generation to understand what a teenager is trying to convey. Each generation has its own unspoken language, different from the literary one.
It may include:
- school slang;
- teenage slang;
- the language of the subculture (rockers, break dancers, graffiti artists).
The most popular youth expressions of English slang:
- Zod – villain, fool, rubbish
- Sit on someone’s butt – sit on your pants
- High, junked up - stoned
- Job hunting - job search
- Jazz up - turn up the heat
- It's gonna be a bang! - It will be just cool!
- In tune - get along great
- In touch - contact
- To be in the soup - to be in trouble
- To be in someone’s shoes - not to be in one’s own skin
- In a hole - at a dead end
- Idiot box, boob tube – zombie box
- Hit the road - move, set sail
- Have got it - drink your fill
- Hang around - wander around idle
- Get a screw loose - say nonsense
- Green buck - bucks (greens)
- Go bananas – go crazy
- Go ape - go crazy
- Go ahead - to start something
- Gaga - stupid
- Eyes pop out – eyes for 5 kopecks
- Fast talker
- Fall from grace - break the chain
- Fair sex - fair sex
- Face the music - get what you deserve in full
- Every dog has his day - there will be a holiday on our street
- Ease off/ease up – relax
- Drop dead - shut up (calm down)
- Do a job on - mess up
- Deadbeat - rogue
- Chicken - coward
- Dead duck - dead number
- Brush up – improve
- Bitching - swearing
- Bingo - done!
- B.S. = bullshit - bullshit
- Awash - drunk, flooding the eyes
- At loggerheads - don't get along
- All wet – erroneous
- Hot red - cool
- Booze - fuel (booze)
- All ears – ears on the top of the head
- Makeup - makeup
Origin of youth slang:
There are plenty of ways in which teenage slang is formed. However, they are all based on the general principle - to adapt a foreign word (more convenient, but often carrying a different meaning) for use in Russian reality.
Main reasons for borrowing:
- perception of a foreign word as carrying increased importance (exclusive, image maker, summit);
- filling the language with specific or expressive expressions (businesswoman, face control, promotion);
- the need to give a name to new concepts or phenomena (printer, copywriter, gadget);
- lack of analogues or correspondence (chips, hot dog);
- the need to express multi-valued actions (PR, make-up, pilling).
- Often pop culture brings to the masses the popularization of English slang. Phrases from songs and films (“Never-ever let you go” - D. Bilan, “I’ll be back” - A. Schwarzenegger) remain in the everyday speech of teenagers for a long time.
The younger generation is actively developing modern Russian vocabulary with the help of words and expressions borrowed from another language. There is a contradiction here: on the one hand, the vocabulary of native speech increases, on the other, its beauty, uniqueness and originality are lost. Therefore, we should remember the golden rule of our ancestors - everything is good in moderation!
The article really touched me. Of course, everything is clear there, in order to write less, everyone comes up with a beautiful short word for themselves, and if others like it, with the light hand of the author, this word gets a start in life.
But in our language there is also a lot of beautiful and meaningful words, with the help of which it is easy to convey to your interlocutor not only your thought, but also the state of your soul at a certain moment.
- You don’t have enough words to convey the smells that are in the air, after the rain say with admiration, stretching your palms to the sky - Petrichor.
Petrichor - the smells that waft in the air after rain.
- But what you encounter every day, the crescent at the base of the nail is called Lunula.
Lunula is a crescent moon at the base of the nail. - Natural formations on trees, rocks and stones that resemble female forms are called a capacious word - Natiforma.
Natiforms are natural formations on trees, rocks and stones. — Mondegrin these are unclear or misheard words in songs.
— Students simply need to know what Ferul is, otherwise your classmates might just make you laugh. Ferul This is the metal part at the end of a pencil with an eraser.
Ferul — Disania- this is a state of lack of sleep, fatigue or simply laziness, in which it is difficult to get out of bed in the morning.
— Mamihlapinatapai– (mamihlapinatapai) is a look between two people, in which the desire of each of them is expressed, but each wants the other to initiate what they both want, and neither wants to be the first.
Mamihlapinatapai is a look between two people. — Paresthesia- the well-known feeling of tingling, numbness and goosebumps in the limbs.
— There are often times when you need to use a question mark and an exclamation mark at the same time. This sign is called Interrobang.
— The vertical depression between the nasal septum and the upper lip is called Filtrum.
— Phloem it's just long fibers on banana peel.
— Obelus, even simpler than you thought, it's a division sign.
— The chills that come over you while listening to music are called Frisson.
— Glabel-the area on a person’s face located between the eyebrows.
— In a word “ Chunking"is called conscious or unconscious spitting of food.
- The columella is the space between the nostrils.
— Jamesview(jamais vu) - a state opposite to déjà vu, a sudden feeling that a well-known place or person seems completely unknown to you.
— Narcolepsy. The condition or habit of a person falling asleep in transport as soon as it starts moving. It is considered a protective reaction of the body to motion sickness.
— The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. A very interesting thing. Take a closer look. Sometimes you see or hear something for the first time, and suddenly you start noticing it everywhere.
- The leather loop on the belt that holds the free end of the fastened belt is called - “ Trenchik».
— Texttrovert.
1. The one who is bolder in SMS than in a personal conversation.
2. Someone who can only share their real feelings via SMS.
— Nonsense- now we call these words, completely unnecessary, empty words, words or stupid jokes without any meaning. But did you know that at the end of the 17th century, the French doctor Gali Mathieu treated his patients with jokes.
At the same time, he was so popular that he did not have time to visit all his patients in person and sent his healing puns by mail.
From his name the word “nonsense” arose, which at that time meant a healing joke, a pun.
Now you are familiar with buzzwords that you can use to show off in conversation. Of course, these are not all buzzwords, if you know something new, write to me in the comments or by email, I will publish all the buzzwords on the site in a new article with your name.
And now, I hope that those who could not pass the “” test will pass it with ease. Good luck.
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