What is decay? Detailed analysis

The article tells about what a decay is. What does this word mean and why did it, almost come out of everyday life, again become used due 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, are out of use. This process is difficult to track, and no one, except for scientists, sets himself the goal of controlling it. Although in recent years there have been organizations and public figures who advocate the purity of the Russian language, striving to make it less borrowed from foreign languages, jargon and slang. However, it turns out with varying success.

For example, if we take the language spoken by our ancestors in the 17th century, then it will differ greatly from the modern one. There are a lot of words in it that people simply will not understand, just as our everyday language would hardly be understandable to our ancestors. Some words cease to be used because of old-fashionedness, they are replaced by simpler and more practical ones. And one of these is decay. But what is decay? And why with the advent of the Internet this word became so popular with young people? In this we will understand.

Definition

First you need to figure out what that word means. To do this, turn to the dictionary. According to him, the word has two meanings. The first decay is rot, the process of decay and decay. For example, "turned to decay" or "was decayed." The second is used in a figurative sense and means something of minor importance, insignificant, perishable. It can also be used to refer to something that is fragile, meaningless, because of what you should not worry or take to heart. For example, the phrase "all decay" is used if it is necessary to emphasize the meaninglessness of being or its extreme dullness. With what such a decay, we figured out, but why the word again became popular?

Subcultures

In the middle and the end of the 2000s, many youth subcultures arose, or those that already existed radically changed. And some of them, if I may say so, preached the transience of life, its severity or absolute insignificance, because of which it is not worth it to cling to at all and there is no reason to think about the future. And among the personalities with suicidal tendencies, the phrase "life - decay" became popular. What it is? The answer to this question is very simple - in this way they denoted the extreme degree of fatigue from life and what is considered earthly existence as absolutely meaningless. Particularly, they were fond of representatives of such subcultures as emo and Goth.

But gradually this expression fell in love with the rest of the youth, and it quickly became a kind of Internet meme.

What is corn in the "Contact"?

The most popular social network in Russia and the post-Soviet space is VKontakte. Gradually, users created many thematic communities of a broad focus, but still most of them are entertaining. Due to the wide spread of the social network, a lot of memes were born in it, and one of them: "Life is a decay." A single and clear template, like the rest, he does not have and usually looks like a photograph or a drawing, which with the help of the graphic editor was given a very dull, gray tint and attached the corresponding inscription. Sometimes other objects are added - for a more vivid reflection of the problem.

It is used about and without, for example, it is funny to send it in response to the question "how are you doing" if circumstances do not develop in the best way, for example, examinations come to which the person is not ready, and so on.

So we sorted out what is decay and why this word became popular among modern youth.