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In mid -January 2024, the news was distributed in Runet that the compilers of the Slovak dictionaries recorded the existence of a new word in this language, denoting an ungrateful person, brazenly asking for money. It is reported that it is formed from the words “Ukrainian” and “beggar”. We checked the truthfulness of this story.
Since January 18, they go on social networks posts The fact that because of Ukrainian refugees in the Slovak language there was a neologism of the “UKRAžob” (ukražob). The proof is the screenshot of a certain Slovak site. In Telegram channel "Sheikh Tamir"(136,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) explain the appearance of a new word as follows:“ The roots from žobrák ("Begging") and ukrajinčina ("Ukrainian"). And if you simply say this word, then a Ukrainian will turn out by ear, who can not establish things in the state. Or, as an option, a Ukrainian striving for "European values". " In most publications, the new term is determined by the “ungrateful person who is brazenly asking for money”, and the authors of the channel ”Release Kraken!”(78,000 views) clarify:“ A person who asks for something in an impolite manner requires money, goods or the provision of services; The situation when someone becomes an outcast. "
According to the TGSTAT service, in a few days about 130 similar posts for 1.1 million views appeared in Telegram. For example, such records were published in the channels "Three heroes and Zelensky addict"(160,000 views), Voblya (141,000), “Kostyan cat is the official channel” (twice: 98,000 And 89 000), "Ax | Policy"(37,000),"Info DPR"(36,000),""Special operation Z" | Yuri Podolyaka+"(33,000),"Baibaiden"(29,000),"What is going on?"(19,000), Zanoza (17,000) and "Ne. Sahar"(12 000). The Tsargrad TV channel spoke about Slovak Neologism in its profile in "Zen", As well as twice in a public in VKontakte (here And here), in a group in "Odnoklassniki" (here And here) and in the Telegram channel (here And here). Similar notes and posts are found on other resources: for example, on news sites "Politicus" And "ZOV Kyiv", Platform"Answers Mail.ru"And in social networks X.
To begin with, consider a viral screenshot. According to information on it, the word "adolescence" in the Slovak language has two meanings:
- A person who rudely and impudently asks for something, requires money, goods or the provision of any services;
- The situation when someone behaves carelessly and ungrateful, is an outcast and lives at the expense of others.
In addition, along with neologism, the adjective UKRAžobovutch (“UKRAST”) and the verb ukražobiť (“decorate”) supposedly appeared from it.
According to the logo in the upper left corner of the image, the screenshot was made on site Slovak company Forma. There is a tab on this resource SLEX, the page of this particular section is captured in the viral picture. His description says: “The online word of the Slovak language is a model of the SLEX99 product-the electronic dictionary of the Slovak language. It is based on the "brief dictionary of the Slovak language", released The Veda Publishing House and the Lyudov Shtur Institute of Linguistics at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1987. "
“Verified” could not find on this site neither the neologism of the UKRAžob, nor its derivative forms (ukražobovutch and ukražobiť). In all three cases, the results of the issuance reported that the relevant articles in the dictionary are absent. And despite the fact that if the service does not find the desired word, he must To display a list of similar options, but they were not offered either.
The word ukražob also It didn't work out Find on the portal of the Institute of Linguistics. Shtur, where dictionaries and databases are collected that allow you to find words, their parts and expression. In the issuance of Google by request the sophisticated Words and Two his formIn addition to posts in social networks, it was not possible to find examples of use in the texts in the Slovak language. But “verified” the materials of the factor project “Ґvara Medіa", Ukrainian Center for Combating Disinformation and ordinary InternetusersWhere are the reports of the appearance of the word "adolescence" are called fakes.
The fake of the screenshot also confirms the error made by its authors. In this image at the end of the word ukražobiť there is a letter T with an apostrophe (t ') instead of a symbol with a diacritic sign (ť). When trying to find a word in the form in the form, as it is written in the screenshot, the site gives an error.
Update dated January 25, 2024. Founder and head of Forma Zdenko Tolla In response to the request “verified” about the comment, he stated that the picture is fake: “There is no such word in our dictionary.”
Thus, a new word ukražob did not appear in the Slovak language. The only evidence of the existence of this neologism, which allegedly arose due to the dissatisfaction of the Slovaks by Ukrainian refugees, was a fabricated screenshot of a non-existent web page.
Among the post-dedicated posts that were tracked “verified”, the earliest appeared on January 18 at 23:03 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “Baibaiden", While in the screenshot was his proprietary worship. However, the next morning, the channel "Cat Kostyan»Published the same image without a warehouse. Both of these channels repeatedly They became the heroes of our analysis.
Photo on the cover: social networks / Nicolas Raymond (Flickr)
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