Fw: Fw: klass

[Irina Ustinova]

>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:39:50
>To: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com
>From: Irina Ustinova <ipustino at syr.edu>
>Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: klass
>
>
>>>  "lozhit" (instead of kladyot) on the other hand sounds very
>>> >> like a foreigner's assumption going from polozhit to lozhit as a logical
>>> >> move. I doubt a real Russian would do it,
>>>
>>> I had a native emigre ask me last week if the imperfective of polozhit' was
>>> lozhit'. He simply did not know klast'. That is what he says at home, he
>>> explained. JRW
>
>
>To the questions of native speakers and even "educated" ones
>:
>I remember a wonderful episode in the popular movie of 7Os: "Dozhivem do
ponedel'nika", where a school teacher(!) says to her colleagues about her
students:" Ya govoru, ne lozh'te ruchki v party, a oni vse lozhut i lozhut..."
>
>Irena Ustinova
>