kushat'

[John Dingley]

Hi,

Somewhat long in the tooth now is Gorbachevich's "Trudnosti
slovoupotreblenija i varianty norm russkogo literaturnogo jazyka"
(1973), where the following is recorded for "kushat'":

Upotr. tol'ko dlja priglashenija k ede i po otnosheniju k detjam.
... Ne sleduet upotr. glagol "kushat'" v 1-m lice. "Ja nauchila ego
govorit' "ja em" vmesto "ja kushaju", "polovina pervogo" vmesto
"polpervogo" - I. Grekova, "Damskij master".

Gorbachevich goes on to cite the opinions of certain linguists and
writers on this topic, including the formidable L.V. Shcherba, who
agrees, on the whole, with the sentiments expressed so far in this
thread. Perhaps indicative is the quotation from V. Bianki's "Mysli
vslux": "Dazhe o sebe my nachinaem govorit': ja kushaju, my kushaem.
..."

John Dingley

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