There's an obvious sense in which they understand poetic languageto be that in which form is predominant and practical language to be that in which content is predominant, but the Russian formalists see it in a slightly different way.

他们认为,诗歌中形式占主导,实用语言中内容占主导，但是俄国形式主义者们不这么认为。

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