Each of us speaks and puts thoughts into words. But for some reason, not everything we say gets quoted. Most often, the phrases of famous people are repeated, who for some reason crashed into people's memory. What are statements and how to make your even the most ordinary thought become a catch phrase that is passed from mouth to mouth? Let's try to find out.
Theory of Times
According to the definition, a statement is a single sentence, grammatically correct, which is perceived solely in conjunction with its meaning and is true or false. The last quality of the statement is determined on the basis of its correspondence to reality. If you delve into psychology and analyze different types of statements, you can find information about their different types based on the structure. For example, negative statements that contradict each other; statements-conditions connected by the words "if - then" and so on; I-statements (I think), you-statements (you are wrong) and the like; some other categories.
Theory two
But, probably, all these questions of dry theory are nottoo relevant for the topic, what are statements in the literary and, if I may say so, universal human sense. More often we understand by this word a certain thought, a statement uttered by an authoritative person, perceived as obviously true. Yes, not all replicas of well-known and not so famous people can be considered citations. So where is the line between a meaningless phrase and a truly great statement?
From where?
It is not easy to analyze the mechanism of quotation formation, it doesn't matter if these are Russian statements or not. At first glance, everything is clear: one separate phrase stands out from the context, either existing independently or changing its meaning without a certain environment, it is repeated many times and, having already been fixed in people’s memory, it becomes a quote. And sometimes this consolidation is not even required - it is enough just to highlight the thought from the context. So, for example, well-known Russian sayings are by no means always familiar to absolutely everyone: there are replicas that cause automatic feedback because of their fame (“Feeling not in your own …” will easily be supplemented by the word “plate”), while others will cause difficulty and the most erudite ("Who loves rain …" the correct ending is "rain and fire"). That is, there is a kind of gradation here. But regardless of whether the quotes are famous or not, there is always something catchy about them.
Great and mighty
Statements about the Russian language are a whole layer of Russian-language phrases. It is easier to name someone who did not say anything about the great and mighty(This, by the way, was also one of the statements). Let's start collecting statements, perhaps, from the classics.
Kuprin, for example, said that the Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy. And how can you disagree with him? In terms of its sound, our native speech really stands out among European languages, differing even from related Slavic ones. The system of synonyms and antonyms in it is colossal - one word can be replaced by almost a dozen others, if it is native Russian, of course, and they themselves are so multifunctional that you are amazed: the same word, depending on the context, can have completely different meanings. Well, how can one disagree with such an assessment?
Great and mighty from the outside
I would like to give more statements about the Russian language of those who are familiar with our culture only by hearsay, that is, they are not its bearer. Friedrich Engels, one of the founders of Marxism that swept over Russia, compared his native German and Russian, and in favor of the latter, believing that he had all the properties of German, but did not possess its rudeness. Indeed, in their grammatical system, Russian and German are very similar - the same changes in the endings of nouns depending on the case, the variability of verb forms and many more qualities that are alien to other European ones. I would like to end this section with the words of Jared Leto, the same idol of youth as Engels once was: "The Russian language must be respected, not played with."Again, one cannot but agree: it is in literary form, revered and cherished, that our language is revealed in all its beauty.
The whole variety of language
And what do they say about other dialects? What other famous sayings about language exist?
Homer once in his words embodied the basic principle of the existence of mankind: “Whatever word you say, you will hear it”, that is, he perceives language as a means of communication, and not a specific dialect or adverb. S. Lets warns: "Speak smart: the enemy is eavesdropping", that is, here we are talking about language as a means of demonstrating one's intellect, prestige, so to speak, awareness in certain issues. “A well-expressed thought sounds smart in all languages,” D. Dryden believed, perceiving the language already as a distinctive feature of the people, emphasizing its originality. That is, we can safely say that the great statements dedicated to the language are not fixed on only one aspect of it, they try to cover as many meanings as possible. How many-sided and extensive the language itself is, so many-sided are opinions about it.
Sayings from the people
How to understand what statements are, if almost any phrase that has at least some meaning can be attributed to them? And why are the phrases of well-known personalities becoming "statements", although not, "Statements", with a capital letter, to emphasize the importance, can't ordinary ordinary people say something that could well remain in human memory? I would like to bringas examples of statements about a Russian person and his way of life from Russian Radio - those who understand these simplest inhabitants best of all. What is worth only one "Slower ride - less Russian", simultaneously referring to the saying, and to Gogol's "What Russian does not like fast driving." Continuing the theme of the play on words, one cannot but recall “The fisherman hates the fisherman for sure” - there is still in our nature, albeit generous and friendly, this competition. Well, the already canonical "Stop the earth, I'll get off" - how often you want to shout these simple words, but still we all grit our teeth and continue to make our way "through thorns to the stars", as Seneca said.
True or False
Based on the interpretation of what statements are, we understood that any sentence with its meaning, which is true or false, can be considered as a statement. But at the same time, for some reason, we subconsciously perceive almost all quotes as an exceptional truth, not even subject to doubt. For example, the hero of one of the cult Soviet films believed that we had forgotten how to do stupid things, and at the same time we stopped climbing through the windows to our beloved women. But can this statement be true? Yes, perhaps the part about stupidity is true, but how can you correlate the desire to climb through windows with stupidity? It turns out that part of the phrase should be taken as a lie, while the other remains true? Hegel believed that only contradictions, especially those taken to extremes, become mobile, so the choice between the truth and falsehood of a statement is another choice.for each person, which needs to be done independently, and not based on the opinion of the majority.
It doesn't matter if the statements are Russian or not, whether they are about language, exact sciences, or even some abstract topics. The main thing is to understand: each of us is free to choose what he considers a worthy and interesting statement, and what is of no value to him.
