klass

[Uladzimir Katkouski]

> 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

"Lazhyc'" and "Ikhny" are both correct Belarusian words. People
that come from Western Russia (Smolensk region and further
South) use a lots of structures like this. I am dead sure you could
not possible hear such words from Moscow or Saint-Petersburg
people. Because of Soviet times strive for purity of the language
people that use words like "lazhyc'" or "ikhny" are considered
uneducated villagers. Pretty sad. For example, Irish and Scotts do
not get discriminated on the basis of their accent in British Isles.
This is not the case in Russia.


**************************************************
Uladzimir L. Katkouski // Computer Science Student
American University In Bulgaria (AUBG)
Volga, Rm.#2223, AUBG, Blagoevgrad, 2700, Bulgaria
e-mail:  <vlk960 at cj.aubg.bg>, <uladzi at slin.aubg.bg>
h-page:  <http://www.aubg.bg/cj/~vlk960>
***************************************************

- You would like to communicate privately?
- Here is my PGP Public Key:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use
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=0x9z
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----