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In the beginning there was coffee. Linguistic myths, speech "mistakes" and other reasons to break spears in disputes about the Russian language.

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In the beginning there was coffee. Linguistic myths, speech "mistakes" and other reasons to break spears in disputes about the Russian language.
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Svetlana Guryanova, philologist, teacher of Russian and author of the blog istoki_slova, debunks the main myths about the Russian language in her book and exposes all those who make up stories about it. She also gives a lot of counterarguments that will pacify even the most ardent grammar Nazis!

Without dry teacher's instructions, but relying on the latest scientific research in the field of linguistics, the author talks about the past and present of the Russian language, answering the questions:

- Is it really so illiterate to say "delicious coffee", "clean up", "sit down" and "eat", do "we really have enough of our own words" and do borrowings ruin the Russian language?
- Are feminitives a necessity or just the inventions of activists?
- Who are linguofreaks and should we take incredible stories about the origin of words at face value?

- Is it true that Cyril and Methodius encrypted a mysterious “message” in the alphabet, that the Russian language is the ancestor of all other languages, and that the prefix “bes” is from the evil one?
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