Video: CHIK and UPC instead of LOL and OMG: what abbreviations did the youth use at the beginning of the twentieth century
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As you know, after the October Revolution, the young Land of Soviets brought with it a new reality. The outlook of the younger youth was changing. It was also reflected in the impetuous urge to abbreviate words. It was accepted to greet each other with the abbreviation "SKP", and to make a date "on Tverbul near Pampush".
Abbreviations were used not only by proletarian youth, but also by representatives of literary circles. In the memoirs of Nikolai Gumilyov's favorite student Irina Odoevtseva "On the banks of the Neva, on the banks of the Seine" you can find the following lines:
No less popular in the 1920s was the UPC greeting. It stands for "With communist greetings!" Once Osip Mandelstam received a letter from his friend that ended with the abbreviation "SKP". The poet immediately wrote an answer and signed "CHIK". These tiny contractions clearly made it clear that the life positions of the two men are completely different and they are no longer friends with each other.
In Korney Chukovsky's book "Alive as Life" you can read:
This seemingly completely innocent game of abbreviations has developed over time into a real epidemic of abbreviations that flooded all spheres of life. Alexei Tolstoy has lines:.
Abbreviations were so common that curious situations happened in connection with this. Actor V. I. Kachalov once admitted that when he saw the usual inscription "ENTRANCE" on the door of some office, he thought for a long time how it could be deciphered. As a result, the actor decided that it was the "Higher Artistic Department of Diplomatic Couriers".
British writer J. Orwell, author of the dystopia "1984" believed that the tendency to simplify language and abbreviations is an inevitable feature of a totalitarian or ideologized authoritarian state. Analyzing the past of the country, whose name was also an abbreviation, and remembering the love of abbreviations today, there is something to think about.
Soviet names derived from sciences, achievements and revolutionary symbols deserve special attention. You can still find these days owners of the funniest and most ridiculous names of the Soviet era: Dazdraperma, Traktorina, Pyachegod.
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