klass

[Emily Tall]

Ben Rifkin's posting has reminded me of something I've been wondering
about. My emigre students all say they are going to "klass" and "shkola."
I know "shkola" is wrong and I try to make them say "zaniatiia," but now
I've heard a visiting teacher of Russian use it as well. Is it used in
Russia at all to speak of college classes? Several of them have used
"ikhnii" and "lozhit" (instead of kladyot) as well. Is the sanest approach
just to point out
that those are "unacceptable" forms and leave it at that? When I do point
it out they give me these strange looks...Emily Tall