Abstract
The first Soviet hippies appeared in Moscow and in Leningrad in the late 1960s. They called themselves the System, thus emphasizing the importance of personal contacts and ties in the movement, the presence of their own circle. The began to form its own language (henceforth we will call it System slang), which took a great deal from the already-existing vocabulary of the vulgar, debased colloquial style; absorbed individual words and expressions from jargons that preceded it (for example, criminal jargon, the jargon of the stiliagi [fashion plates—Tr. Ed.], and so on); and created many new words, making use of old methods of word formation (shortening words, transferring words from one stylistic category to another, and developing figurative and emotional-intensive meanings of certain classes of words) and its own special method of word formation, which we characterize as redundant borrowing [izbytochnoe zaimstvovanie]. A considerable percentage of slang consists of anglicisms—which,...
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