Respect is respect

Quite often when communicating online with their web-friends, in disputes and furious discussions at forums, we meet with how the especially successful arguments and positions are evaluated with the word "respect". This term has gained immense popularity these days, and therefore it is worth a little talk about what exactly it means, and why it is used as an Internet meme. Moreover, the popularity of virtual communication is growing every year.

Dictionary value

Once this word was used in pre-revolutionary Russia and was somewhat ironic. Very often in Russian literature one can find it in the form of a "solution". If you wanted to show respect to someone, you said that you have respect for this person. However, this expression very often meant some alienation between people, the rejection of close, confidential or overly familiar relations. Now everything has changed, and now in the communication between bloggers or young people in real life this term has changed its "color".

What does the word "Respect" mean?

This term is foreign, like many other Internet words. It came to us, as many bloggers assure, from the United States of America. At least there is no doubt in his English-speaking origin. Strictly speaking, very many words from computer slang came to us either from the British Isles, or from across the ocean. This word is simply a transliteration by Russian letters of Latin writing. The meaning of the word "Respect" is easy to establish by opening a dictionary or typing it in an online translator. You will immediately see that this is the English equivalent of the Russian word "respect." It's just that in youth slang it is customary to express yourself in such a way. Especially often this word is used when writing comments to any posts, and want to emphasize that the position or the author's presentation is very popular with the public. It is very common to use this term in social networks, for example, "VKontakte", "Facebook" and so on.

Political significance: "Respect" and its goals

This word has a narrower and more specific definition. At one time, the so-called group of English political parties of the left direction, as well as the trade union movements that joined them, was called. They declared that they were fighting for human dignity, peace free from wars, environmental protection and other universal human values. They formed a coalition in 2004 and initially protested against the war in Iraq. In addition, this movement, which has now joined the party, began to put forward a geopolitical program, for example, supporting the position of Palestine and its occupied territories against Israel, as well as strengthening the protection of refugees.

Synonyms or tautology?

Although the word "respect" is an accepted way of expressing respect in the Internet community, nevertheless, not all people understand its meaning. Therefore, quite often commentators use a duplicated form in their estimates. She, as a rule, looks like this: "Respect and uvazhuha." This very fashionable expression is used quite often. The last word here, of course, is the warped Russian "respect." Although the phrase is tautological in meaning, it, nevertheless, came into use and is widely distributed. Essentially the words mean the same, but many bloggers believe that in this way they emphasize the meaning of the first word and enable the interlocutor to understand what is at stake.

When most often use this word

In most cases, the term "respect" is a kind of display of respect for some actions, words or position of a given person or group of people, but not to them. That is, when a blogger wants to say that he admires some idea, emotionally supports this opinion or believes that the concrete actions of a person deserve a positive evaluation, he uses this word. In some cases, the use of this term means that the interlocutor is good to you and is ready to support and protect your views, which is quite good in our world, where various information wars are being waged. By the way, from the Internet the term has already migrated into direct live communication, as well as to telephone conversations. The term began to acquire grammatical features, for example, used in the form of "respectable". This also means respect for the writer or the speaker.

How does it happen?

In some forums, Respect is a kind of statistical unit for measuring the user's assessment. For example, if this "indicator of respect" is red, then this indicates that the author likes messages and his status is high. If the "Respect" of the blogger is blue, then he is not too popular, and his statements do not inspire the majority of confidence. Thus, this term from computer slang becomes the expression of objective statistical indicators. Perhaps soon it will turn into some kind of scientific unit of measurement.