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“You respect me?”

Oleg UPCOMING

"Ты меня уважаешь?"
Whom the President “comrade”?

During parades the parade commander calls for the President “comrade President” or “comrade commander”. In the army, as you know, all the comrades – from “comrade Sergeant” to “comrade General”.
Hesitation occurs only when contacting the senior in rank to ordinary Ivanov.
“Ivanov, get in line!” Well, okay, get up, fuck you…

In business life and increasingly turning the official “sir”. Accordingly, to the woman – “mistress”.
As are traded on the zone, I don’t know. Read that like “the citizen the chief”. And from the top down? “Citizen prisoner”? Or “Mr. prisoner”? Or “prisoner Ivanov, on the way out!”?
In the old days it was easier. All who are down – serfs, or slaves, or dolt. And who is at the top of the bar… And over bars, sons of bitches, the king-priest. In-about-about!!!

So now “friend” is kind of the most popular and official for communication with branches. But then get lining. Like demanding to go to the policeman “comrade policeman”, which, of course, ridiculous, but no one has heard of, “hooligan” or “fellow protesters”, not to the overtures, we must have time to twist, to throw in the paddy wagon and run to the next “friend”… Yes, and historical and genetic memory of the rule of tarisha not inspired today to remember this constantly stained with the blood of the word…

Again, in the courts, only to find the truth and impose the deserved punishment. Judge to You – “would the defendant please rise”, and in response, just try not to say “Your honor”. What an honor, what you, yourself do not laugh?..
I don’t want to discuss explicit linguistic findings such as “Bandar-log”, “sakalai” or “orangeidea”…

So what to do, how to communicate with the serfs bars in modern history?
Maybe we could reconcile all mighty word “citizen”?
From “the citizen the chief” to “citizen President”, from “citizen judge” to “the citizen accused”? From “ordinary citizen” to “citizen Minister of defense”?
For Russian citizenship is the only thing that still has 140 million inhabitants of our beautiful, but, alas, restless and unpredictable homeland.

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