The knower does not speak, the speaker does not know

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

This guy is pretty sweet. Behind his broad shoulders is a physical education academy and work as a fitness trainer. He boldly begins to look after you: "Baby, you have a great figure, why else is fitness?" You give him your phone. He smiles, whispers loudly in your ear: "We'll call you!" and, showing off his gorgeous muscles, heads to the gym.

Well, you think, "let's call", this wrong stress almost does not jar your gentle philological ear, because now many people say so. The next day he calls: “Hi! Yes, "lodge". But he is cute and courteous. The next day, in your most stunning outfit, you meet him at the box office of the cinema. He confidently kisses you on the lips and looks into the cashier window: "What is it worth?" He's probably asking the ticket price, you mentally assume. The film turns out to be an unpretentious action movie and I don't want to discuss it. On the way back, you drink two sickly alcoholic cocktails, and then kiss at the entrance of your house until one in the morning. Silently.

Since then, you have been together. He is still sweet and far from stupid, but … You are confused by his colloquial speech: "And I understand - it's a pipe", "Why are you laughing at me?" etc. You are embarrassed to introduce him to your friends, not to mention the confrontation with his parents - they will laugh, ask: "Where did you get such a copy? His crutch gives the word to the word, and even then not always."

What to do? Breake down? Or correct it every time? But you are a grown girl, and you know that it is indecent to be clever. You cannot point out to unfamiliar people their mistakes in speech, otherwise they will consider you a boring imaginary. By the way, correcting other people's speech mistakes is a typical behavior of first-year students of the philological faculty. The remnants of youthful maximalism, plus minimal new knowledge in the field of the Russian language, result in a haughty, contemptuous look at people who do not speak quite correctly. But he is no longer an unfamiliar person! And he speaks in such a way that sometimes you hardly understand him. Well, okay, if he were a teenager - they have their own slang, without which you can go anywhere. At the age of sixteen you yourself "hung out" and "sausage" at discos, and told your parents: "We are going to dances with the girls." This means that even then she was able to distinguish between different levels of communication. And he still does not feel this difference.

Of course, he is not the only one, now many people speak "broken Russian". And in general, over the past 10-20 years, our language, to the horror of Russian linguists, has undergone significant changes, if not mutations. The norms of the language are loosened, jargon and abusive speech come, there is no talk about speech etiquette. Scientists call the mass media the main "culprits" of the incident.

Firstly, now not only well-trained and correct journalists from the point of view of the social order are allowed on television, radio and newspapers, but also all the rest.

Secondly, the absence of official censorship and freedom of speech allowed everyone, regardless of age, education and culture, to loudly declare themselves.

Thirdly, now the majority of journalists write and speak, except perhaps for news presenters, in the style of friendly conversation or even "chatting with the boys."

And, fourthly, the ways of communication have expanded: pager, cell phone, Internet - all this has made people's speech more relaxed and lively. In addition, international borders opened - and the country happily took many foreign words for its own: monster, manager, killer, etc. And also prison jargon has come into vogue, especially in the form of songs. And radio "Chanson", the favorite radio of all taxi drivers in our city, lives and flourishes.

And then there are our favorite singers and singers who teach us how to speak "correctly". For example, Tanya Ovsienko with a soulful song about a truck driver: "Again tired eyes look into the night …" Eyes can look, but "look"?..

There is nothing to say about politicians. Their statements immediately after their speech go to the people as anecdotes: “Looking at this situation, I didn’t raise my hand to criticize the local authorities” (Chubais), “The Belarusian people will live badly, but not for long” (Lukashenko).

Journalists, on the other hand, are simply charming in their mistakes. The newspaper columnist told the radio listeners early in the morning: "I don't have time to read everything, I leave you to brotherhood with the newspapers." The slip is almost Freudian.

True, it will not be superfluous to check yourself, your beloved, for your knowledge of the rules of the Russian language, at least for your knowledge of the correct stress in words. Leafing through the dictionary, you make interesting discoveries.

It turns out that it is more correct to say not spouses, but wanderers, not delusional, but delusional, not modern, but modern. True, it is not forbidden to pronounce these words as we are all accustomed to, but in an informal setting. So you can not break the language with those who are "banging". But freaky, corrugated, sealed, fetish, sorrel and many other words with a "controversial accent" need to be spoken only this way and not another way.

It's good that there are such words as frog, frog and frog. Whatever you say, everything is correct. Hurray, at least with frogs you can not stand on ceremony!

After much hesitation, you still decide to have a frank conversation with your boyfriend. At the meeting, when he once again says "lodge", you correct him: "I do not lie, but I put it." "Yes, I know, but it's more convenient for me," he replies calmly. "What's more convenient here ?!" - you boil, - you have to say CORRECTLY! "" Why? Anyone who wants to understand me! And anyway, who are you to me - mommy? So don't teach me how to live! "And you suddenly realize something completely different, namely, that you will never be together … Because you really are not a mommy, but a real mom should have taken care of the child more when he walked under the table, and not "put" porridge on his plate, but put …