The article talks about what is decay. What does this word mean and why it, almost out of everyday life, was again used thanks to the Internet?
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Spoken language is subject to change, and depending on the era, new words appear in it, and old ones, on the contrary, become obsolete. It is difficult to trace this process, and no one, except scientists, sets the goal of controlling it. Although in recent years there have appeared organizations and public figures who advocate for the purity of the Russian language, striving for less borrowing from foreign languages, jargon and slang. However, it turns out with varying success.
For example, if we take the language that our ancestors spoke in the 17th century, it will be very different from the modern one. It has a ton of words that people simply don’t understand, just like our everyday language would hardly have been understood by our ancestors. Some words cease to be used due to old-fashionedness, they are replaced with simpler and more practical ones. And one of these is decay. But what is decay? And why with the advent of the Internet did the youth like this word so much? This we will understand.
Definition
First you need to understand what this word means. To do this, turn to the dictionary. According to him, the word has two meanings. According to the first, decay is rot, the process of decay and decay. For example, “turned into decay” or “underwent decay”. The second is used in a figurative sense and means something of little importance, insignificant, perishable. It can also be used to indicate something fragile, meaningless, which is why you should not worry or take it to heart. For example, the phrase "all perishable" is used if it is necessary to emphasize the meaninglessness of being or its extreme dullness. We have figured out what corruption is, but why did this word become popular again?
Subcultures
In the mid and late 2000s, many youth subcultures arose, or existing ones changed dramatically. And some of them, so to speak, preached the fact of the transience of life, its severity or absolute insignificance, because of which it is not worth clinging to it at all and there is no point in thinking about the future. And among individuals with suicidal tendencies, the phrase “life is perishable” became popular. What it is? The answer to this question is very simple - in this way they denoted an extreme degree of fatigue from life and that they consider earthly existence to be absolutely meaningless. Representatives of such subcultures as emo and Goth were especially keen on this.
But gradually, the rest of the youth fell in love with this expression, and it quickly became a kind of Internet meme.
What is decay in "Contact"?
The most popular social network in Russia and the former Soviet Union is VKontakte. Gradually, users created a lot of thematic communities of a broad orientation, but nevertheless their main part is entertainment. Due to the wide distribution of the social network, many memes arose in it, and one of them: "Life is decay." It does not have a single and clear template, like the rest, and usually looks like a photograph or drawing, which, with the help of a graphic editor, was given a very dull, gray tint and the corresponding inscription was attached. Sometimes other objects are added to more clearly reflect the problem.
It is used with or without, for example, it is considered amusing to send it in response to the question “how are you” if circumstances are not in the best way, say, exams take place for which a person is not ready, etc.
So we examined what corruption is and why this word has become popular among modern youth.