"budesh" and "choc'esh"

[Edward M Dumanis]

The fact is that even native speakers are not necessarily sensitive to the
stylistic connotation of what they say.
There is a normative Russian literary form that strives for the exactness
of the meaning, and a more vague communicative form which is only
satisfactory in understanding of the meaning but without any fine tuning.
Both forms are used and quoted in the dictionaries with the latter
usually marked only as how people should not speak which means that they
actually speak that way; otherwise, there will be no need to correct them.

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>


On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Tanaka Takashi wrote:

> Hello from Japan.
> My name is Takashi and I am teaching Russian at public institute at
> different levels. I joined this list just a few days ago and I mostly
> follow the matters concerning Russian.
>
> I lived in Russia during 1992 - 93 academic year and though I lived in
> a Univ. dorm, I have spent a lot of time in Russian speaking family.
>
> Although I encountered the expression " Ty budesh' xxx?" for the
> first time in Russia, I somehow understood it right, or at least
> I got what they meant.
>
> But I was more surprised at the fact that people hardly say
> "Kushajte" to me. Instead, they kept saying "Esh'te" or "Esh'",
> which, as I learned in Japan, is not appropriate .
>
> TANAKA Takashi
>
>
> Uladzimir Katkouski wrote:
> >
> > That's an interesting case. I remember the confusion of my Albanian friend
> > who was learning Russian with some help from his Russian roommate. And he
> > just
> > couldn't grasp the construction "you will sausage?" or "you will cheese?" ;)
>
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