These are the sorts of words you might hear from very old people in a very distant village. There is also a form of the feminine possessive её - ейный, but that has apparently not re-entered common usage to the same extent. The grammatical “mistakes” that have Russian speakers stamping their feet in protest are the ancient/folk forms of их (their) - ихний and его (his) - евоный. But there are homegrown annoyances, grammatical “mistakes” that are becoming commonplace, and a few calques from English thrown in, too. Of course, many of the words and expressions are foreign words (mostly English), like асап (ASAP) or the truly dreadful я на колле (I’m on a call). Russian speakers are also bothered by their changing language. It is not a synonym for “I’m writing you today…” Delete immediately.Īnd yet…and yet… it’s just the language changing. I personally cannot stand emails that begin “I’m reaching out to you today…” For me, “to reach out to someone” is to make a concerted effort to communicate with someone in order to help them or involve them in an endeavor. And certainly when we see a Shakespeare play and chuckle over every “forsooth.” And definitely when we pick up Chaucer and put it down again because we can’t understand a thing.Īnd yet… and yet when language is changing around us, we are uncomfortable, annoyed or outraged.
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Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words that can mean either one of these (e.g. The search algorithm handles phrases and strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of related slang terms. The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for.
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