Not only the hero of I. S. Turgenev quoted in the title, but also many of his real contemporaries were disgusted by the empty tasteless eloquence. However, the smoking room is alive! I. A. Krylov's well-known expression "they won't say a word in simplicity" is still applicable today to those authors of oral and written public speeches who consider it good form to express themselves more solidly, more instructively, and more flowery. They realize their aspirations through various methods and, first of all, through the selection and preference of certain lexical means of the modern Russian language. So, from possible synonyms, choose a higher style: build a cowshed, not build (Kirovskaya Pravda. 1998. N 31), to work in a funeral home, but not to work (Kirovskaya Pravda. 1992, N 45), to learn the habits of bears, and not to learn or study them (Kirovskaya Pravda. 1998. N 75). Apparently, out of special respect for predators, the tabloid "Leisure in Moscow" (1999. N 44) writes that "the wolf eats meat, but he eats strawberries, voles, and large-hoofed animals." The desire to flaunt a sophisticated word also leads to a shift in paronyms, that is, single-root, but not synonymous lexicons.- page 77 "The instigator of the scandal was a small article in an English newspaper "(Digest-Chimes. 1991. N 1); "One of the instigators of the fight - Dmitry Arkhipov" (Vyatka observer. 1996. N 34); "In the drawings, nature is captivating, some kind of light breath" (Book Review. 1990. No. 5); "Today's fashion is a hymn to harmony, to nature" (To everyone. 1998. N 13). Meanwhile, the initiators of fights, scandals and other unseemly affairs are not the instigators, but the instigators; the book noun nature, used instead of the one-root naturalness, actually means "natural property, essence, essence", for example: the incomprehensibility of human nature. Also, the paronyms revelation and frankness, remains and remnants, official and official are not interchangeable. However, journalists ... Читать далее