Ekho Moskvy on INTERNET in Russian

[Katherine Lahti]

I was listening to Ekho Moskvy the other day, and some language
specialist types were talking about new words in Russian. The
question of "Internet" came up. I believe that all agreed that it
originally was written in Latin (Roman) letters, then went through a
phase of being written in Cyrillic but not declined, and now is
commonly both written in Cyrillic and declined. All agreed that it
sounded fine to put the word in a case. This was a model they were
offering of how foreign words enter the language. Then someone
brought up "pal'to," not exactly a new word and much slower at moving
on than "Internet."

Now what about palatalized consonants before the "e's"? Has that
taken place yet?

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