Quite often, when communicating online with your web friends, in disputes and furious discussions on forums, we encounter how particularly good arguments and positions are evaluated with the word “respect”. This term has gained immense popularity these days, and therefore it’s 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 meaning
Once this word was used in pre-revolutionary Russia and was somewhat ironic. Very often in Russian literature you can find it in the form of “rechpekt”. If you wanted to show respect to someone, you said that you have respect for this person. However, this expression very often meant a certain alienation between people, a rejection of close, trusting or excessively 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 claim, from the United States of America. At least there is no doubt about its English-speaking origin. As a matter of fact, a lot of words from computer slang came to us either from the British Isles or from across the ocean. This word is simply a transliteration of the Latin letters in Russian letters. The meaning of the word "respect" is easy to establish by opening the dictionary or by typing it in an online translator.
You will immediately see that this is an English analogue of the Russian word “respect”. It's just that it is customary to express oneself on youth slang in exactly this way. Especially often this word is used when they write comments on any posts, and want to emphasize that the position or presentation of the author is very popular with the public. The use of this term in social networks, such as VKontakte, Facebook, and so on, is very common.
Political Importance: Respect and its Purpose
This word has a narrower and more specific definition. At one time, this was the name of a group of English left-wing political parties, as well as trade union movements that joined them. They stated that they are fighting for human dignity, a world free from war, environmental protection and other universal values. They formed a coalition in 2004 and initially protested against the Iraq war. In addition, this movement, which has now united in a 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 duplicate form in their assessments. It usually looks like this: "respect and respect." This very fashionable expression is used quite often. The last word here, of course, is warped Russian “respect”. Although the phrase is tautological in meaning, it nevertheless came into use and is very widespread. In fact, the words mean the same thing, but many bloggers believe that in this way they emphasize the meaning of the first word and allow the interlocutor to understand what is being said.
When is the word most often used
In most cases, the term “respect” is a kind of respect for some actions, words or position of a given person or group of people, but not for themselves. That is, when a blogger wants to say that he admires a thought, emotionally supports this opinion, or believes that a person’s specific actions deserve a positive assessment, he uses this word. In some cases, the use of this term means that the person you are talking to is good and ready to support and defend your views, which is very good in our world, where various information wars are waged. By the way, the term has already migrated from the Internet to direct live communication, as well as to telephone conversations. The term began to acquire grammatical features, for example, used in the form of "respect." This also means respect for the writer or the speaker.
What is he like
In some forums, Respect is a kind of statistical unit of measure for evaluating a given user. For example, if this “indicator of respect” is red, then this indicates that the author likes the posts 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 confidence in most. Thus, this term from computer slang becomes an exponent of objective statistical indicators. Perhaps soon it will turn into a kind of scientific unit of measurement.