"Na Velikiy i Moguchiy naveli porchu"

[Alina Israeli]

I read it with annoyance: another complaint about the language by an  
ignoramus. (The worst rant I ever heard included a statement that  
Russian language is losing stress; the lady said it on the basis that  
people say "zvOnit" and other incorrectly stressed words. My reply  
was: look at French and Polish.)

He also did not show any attempts to find out what philologists are  
saying before appealing to them. Maybe they already looked at the issue?

In addition to Krongauz who was already mentioned on this list, one  
can include Shmelev: http://www.stengazeta.net/author.html?person=85  
and Levontina http://www.stengazeta.net/author.html?person=55 that  
immediately come to mind.

It used to be that everybody was a doctor, there is even a lovely  
Italian fable on this subject: http://lukoshko.net/story/stital2.shtml  
(in Russian), but now everyone is a linguist.


Nov 28, 2010, в 11:51 AM, William Ryan написал(а):

>
> Read it - a good amusing rant.


Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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