It is pleasant to note the friendly atmosphere in which the testing of dictations took place - mutual assistance and interest were literally in the air, and most importantly, they speeded up the work, and despite the fact that the deadlines were running out, we gave accurate and confident marks. (Alina Ulanova, student Faculty of Philology RSUH)
…A unique opportunity to feel involved in this linguistic holiday – a big joy. This is excellent practical way educating real philologists and linguists, attentively and lovingly relating to the word. (Evgenia Kireeva, student of the philological faculty of the Russian State University for the Humanities)
The total dictation united teachers and students, they became allies, colleagues, which, of course, helped them to better understand each other. When the guys with burning eyes handed over dozen after dozen proven dictations and each time said with inspiration “More!”, We looked at them and rejoiced that we had made new good friends, that we had such wonderful young people - capable, hardworking, striving for knowledge. And now we have not a hundred such friends, but hundreds and thousands!
Members of the Expert Council of the Total Dictation Elena Arutyunova, Senior Researcher Institute of the Russian Language. V. V. Vinogradov RAS, deputy. editor-in-chief of the Gramota.ru portal;
Vladimir Pakhomov, Research Fellow at the Institute of the Russian Language. V. V. Vinogradov RAS, editor-in-chief of the Gramota.ru portal
Boris Strugatsky
TD-2010. What is the reason for the decline of the Russian language and does it exist at all?
There is no decline, and there cannot be. It’s just that censorship was softened, and in part, thank God, it was completely abolished, and what we used to hear in pubs and gateways now delights our ears, coming from the stage and from television screens. We tend to consider this the onset of lack of culture and the decline of the Language, but lack of culture, like any devastation, is not in books and not on the stage, it is in the souls and in the heads. And with the latter, in my opinion, nothing significant for last years Did not happen. Unless our bosses, again, thank God, diverted from ideology and got carried away more by sawing the budget. So the tongues blossomed, and the language was enriched with remarkable innovations in widest range- from "hedging a portfolio of GKOs using futures" to the advent of Internet jargon.
Talk about the decline in general and Language in particular is, in fact, the result of the lack of clear instructions from above. Appropriate indications will appear - and the decline will stop as if by itself, immediately giving way to some kind of "new flourishing" and universal sovereign "good air".
Literature is flourishing, finally remaining almost without censorship and in the shadow of liberal laws concerning book publishing. The reader is spoiled to the limit. Every year, several dozen books of such a level of significance appear that if any of them appeared on the shelves 25 years ago, it would immediately become a sensation of the year, and today it causes only condescendingly approving grumbling of criticism. Talk about the notorious “crisis of literature” does not subside, the public demands the immediate appearance of new Bulgakov, Chekhov, thick ones, forgetting, as usual, that any classic is necessarily a “product of the time”, like good wine and, in general, like everything good. Do not pull the tree up by the branches: it will not grow faster from this. However, there is nothing wrong with talking about a crisis: there is little benefit from them, but there is no harm either.
And the language, as before, lives its own own life, slow and incomprehensible, constantly changing and at the same time always remaining itself. Anything can happen to the Russian language: perestroika, transformation, transformation, but not extinction. It is too big, powerful, flexible, dynamic and unpredictable to take and suddenly disappear. Except with us.
Once again about the XXI century
(Speech at the IV Congress of science fiction writers of Russia "Wanderer")
Public opinion imposed on science fiction writers the image of a kind of prophets, supposedly knowing the future. On the one hand, this has always annoyed me, because such an approach narrows the real possibilities of science fiction, distorts its essence, and, in addition, obliges it to do something that it is not at all capable of. But, on the other hand, such an opinion about science fiction writers is not without certain foundations, because there are hardly any other people in the world who think about the future with such pleasure, so systematically and, most importantly, almost professionally.
Of course, I do not know what - specifically - the future awaits us in the 21st century. I don't think it's possible to know at all. The experience of the great predecessors shows that all attempts to somehow detail the image of the future look like aposteriori laughable, if not pathetic. But at the same time, truly ingenious prophecies are possible and do happen (it is difficult to call them otherwise), when we are talking not about specific details, not about the little things of life, not about fantastic technologies, but about the very spirit of the times.
When Jules Verne designed his Nautilus, it was truly a feat of brilliant imagination. We, the people of the 20th century, know that, in fact, he, without suspecting it, designed an atomic submarine cruiser. But when we get to the description of luxurious salons with five-meter ceilings, antique vases and marble statues, carpets and paintings hung on the walls in the womb of this nuclear submarine, we begin to involuntarily giggle or even get annoyed. And in the same way we giggle when we read descriptions of Wells' "terrible and terrible" flying fortresses, those stupid half-airships armed with a machine gun (the only machine gun!), Forgetting in annoyance that the brilliant writer guessed the main thing: the terrible and almost decisive role of aviation in the coming wars.
Details are the daily bread of literature and a deadly trap for any divination. Any PRE-CALCULATED, calculated, detailed future is worthless. But after all there is still the future PREDICTED, grasped intuitively. Now this is serious. This is real divination. For example, I do not know of a more convincing and tragic prophecy than the idea of the 20th century, brilliantly captured by the same Wells, as a time when they will try to create a new humanity by passing it through the crucible of suffering. What an unexpected, terrible and accurate guess! The only trouble is that the calculated future always looks (in the eyes of contemporaries) more solid than the intuitive one. Maybe we are confused by the very details that look so convincing and authentic today (and over which our descendants will giggle half a century later).
Somewhere I read curious considerations about weather forecasting. It turns out that the simplest prediction: “Tomorrow the weather will be the same as today,” gives correct result in two thirds of the cases. And the so-called "accurate", "scientifically based", carefully calculated forecast turns out to be correct in seventy-seven (it seems) percent of cases. This is impressive: a giant worldwide network of weather stations, powerful computers, billions and billions of dollars - and all this in order to increase the reliability of the forecast by seven to eight percent! In my opinion, something similar takes place in social prognostication. You can involve billions of dollars and all the resources of the Rand Corporation in calculating the future, or you can just quietly assume that in next century it will be the same as in the previous one - the same people, the same problems, the same ups and downs, the same records of high morality and cruel immorality - only the technological background, of course, will change and the amplitudes will increase.
Sad, very sad news! The last of the Mohicans of fiction has passed away
Boris Natanovich Strugatsky
15.04.1933 - 19.11.2012
He is best known as the creator of works of modern science and social fiction. Most of the works were written by him in collaboration with his brother Arkady Strugatsky, who passed away in 1991.
Their books constituted a whole epoch in Russian literature. The classics, beloved by more than one generation of readers, have become their works “It's hard to be a God”, “Monday starts on Saturday”, “Roadside Picnic”, “Lame Fate”, “Stalker”, “Inhabited Island”, “Burdened by Evil, or 40 years later", "Predatory things of the century" and many others.
The work of the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky left an indelible mark not only in the history of Russian and world literature, but also in the hearts and souls of millions of admirers of their talent. For many readers, who do not even respect the genre of science fiction, familiarization with large, serious literature began precisely with the books of the Strugatsky brothers.
Almanac website " Noon XXI century”, created by Boris Strugatsky at 00.00. November 20 opened with an obituary:
“Boris Natanovich Strugatsky has died.
Writer, publicist, teacher, who brought up a whole galaxy of modern domestic and not only domestic authors. Chief Editor almanac "Noon, XXI century", which opened more than a dozen young talents.
The joint work of the Strugatsky brothers had a huge impact per million people born in the middle of the last century. The “World of Noon” created by the Strugatskys, in which one would like to live and work, has become the dream of several generations. This dream will continue to exist as long as people have hope for justice.
The whole life of Boris Natanovich was devoted to hard everyday work, main goal which was the introduction of Russian science fiction to a new quality level, where the main characters would not be scientific ideas, and the most ordinary people in unusual circumstances.
His contribution to domestic literature cannot be overestimated. His creative spirit will live on in us as long as we walk the earth.
Thank you, master, for your wisdom and exactingness, for your advice and questions, for your help and support!
What can I say, the books of the Strugatskys opened, open and will open new dimensions for us, both around us and within us. Reading their books, we are immersed in a completely different, so unlike the world around us, and yet so familiar, dear, world.
That is why for most of us reading the books of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky has long become a kind of necessity, a kind of spiritual food that nourishes our mind and does not allow it to rot in the "gray" routine of everyday life.
On the Lib.ru website and the official website of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky you will find everything works of art writers, their translations, some sound files related to their work, as well as parodies, continuations, imitations - a kind of "fuss around the Strugatskys".
Perhaps someone does not know, but in 2010 Boris Strugatsky became the author of the text for the Total Dictation - an unprecedented worldwide action when everyone who cares about the Russian language writes a dictation at the same time.
Here is the text of the dictation 2010
“What is the reason for the decline of the Russian language and is it even there?”
There is no decline, and there cannot be. It's just that censorship was softened, and in part, thank God, it was completely abolished, and what we used to hear in pubs and gateways now delights our ears, coming from the stage and from television screens. We tend to consider this the onset of lack of culture and the decline of the Language, but lack of culture, like any devastation, is not in books and not on the stage, it is in the souls and in the heads. And with the latter, in my opinion, nothing significant has happened in recent years. Unless our bosses, again, thank God, diverted from ideology and got carried away by sawing the budget more. So the languages have blossomed, and the Language has been enriched with remarkable innovations in the widest range - from “hedging the GKO portfolio with the help of futures” to the emergence of Internet jargon.
Talk about the decline in general and Language in particular is, in fact, the result of the lack of clear instructions from above. Appropriate indications will appear - and the decline will stop as if by itself, immediately giving way to some kind of "new flourishing" and universal sovereign "good air".
Literature is flourishing, finally remaining almost without censorship and in the shadow of liberal laws concerning book publishing. The reader is spoiled to the limit. Every year, several dozen books of such a level of significance appear that, if any of them appeared on the shelves 25 years ago, it would immediately become a sensation of the year, and today it causes only condescendingly approving grumbling of criticism. Talk about the notorious “crisis of literature” does not subside, the public demands the immediate appearance of new Bulgakov, Chekhov, thick ones, forgetting, as usual, that any classic is necessarily a “product of the time”, like good wine and, in general, like all good things. Do not pull the tree up by the branches: it will not grow faster from this. However, there is nothing wrong with talking about a crisis: there is little benefit from them, but there is no harm either.
And Language, as before, lives its own life, slow and incomprehensible, constantly changing and at the same time always remaining itself. Anything can happen to the Russian language: perestroika, transformation, transformation, but not extinction. It is too big, powerful, flexible, dynamic and unpredictable to take and suddenly disappear. Unless - together with us.
B. N. Strugatsky
Thank you, Boris Natanovich!
For Love for the Great and Mighty Russian Language and Pain for it!
Quotes from the books of the Strugatsky brothers:
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Roadside Picnic"
You can think of anything. In fact, it never happens the way it is imagined.
***
Why the hell are we spinning like that? To make money? But why the hell do we need money, if all we do is spin? ...
The trouble is that we don't notice how the years go by, he thought. Don't care about the years, we don't notice how things change. We know that everything changes, we are taught from childhood that everything changes, we have seen with our own eyes many times how everything changes, and at the same time we are completely unable to notice the moment when a change occurs, or we are looking for a change in the wrong place, where it should.
***
It's strange, why do we like it when we are praised? It won't make any money. Glory? What glory can we have? "He became famous: now three people knew about him"...
***
Funny creature man! .. It seems that we love praise as such. Like kids ice cream.
***
A person needs money in order to never think about it.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - "Monday Starts Saturday"
And what's the point of buying a car to drive around on asphalt? Where there is asphalt, there is nothing interesting, and where it is interesting, there is no asphalt.
***
- What are you doing?
- Like all science. Human happiness.
***
Science, in which we believe, prepares us in advance and for a long time for future miracles, and the psychological shock occurs to us only when we are faced with the unpredictable.
***
Only he will reach the goal who does not know the word "fear" ...
***
People came here who were more pleasant to be with each other than apart, who could not stand any kind of Sunday, because on Sunday they were bored.
In your crazy country, everyone knows that money is dirt. But in my country everyone knows that dirt is, unfortunately, not money.
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky - "Interns"
***
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky - "Snail on the slope"
There is nothing in the world but love, food and pride. Of course, everything is tangled up in a ball, but no matter what thread you pull, you will definitely come either to love, or to power, or to food ...
***
Or maybe you don't understand what it is - needed? This is when you can not do without. This is when you think about all the time. This is when you strive for all your life.
Quotes from Boris Strugatsky:
How sweet it is to inform the reader: this and that happened, but why it happened, how it happened, where it came from - it doesn’t matter!
***
great thing creative crisis! It is unbearably painful to experience it, but when it is experienced, you seem to be reborn and feel ... almighty, beautiful and great.
***
No matter how badly you write your story, it will definitely find readers.
***
Every decent book lives for two human generations: as long as fathers read it, and as long as fathers manage to convince their children that the book is worth reading. Then, as a rule, comes the book's death.
We will not argue with you today, dear Boris Natanovich! It seems that the books of the Strugatsky brothers have been read, are being read and will be read. Perhaps they will reveal new truths to future generations.
Farewell, our memory will remain
- eternal bright memory as a great science fiction writer, citizen and person!
Talk about the decline in general and Language in particular is, in fact, the result of the lack of clear instructions from above. Appropriate indications will appear - and the decline will stop as if by itself, immediately giving way to some kind of "new flourishing" and universal sovereign "good air".
Literature is flourishing, finally remaining almost without censorship and in the shadow of liberal laws concerning book publishing. The reader is spoiled to the limit. Every year, several dozen books of such a level of significance appear that, if any of them appeared on the shelves 25 years ago, it would immediately become a sensation of the year, and today it causes only condescendingly approving grumbling of criticism. Talk about the notorious “crisis of literature” does not subside, the public demands the immediate appearance of new Bulgakov, Chekhov, thick ones, forgetting, as usual, that any classic is necessarily a “product of the time”, like good wine and, in general, like all good things. Do not pull the tree up by the branches: it will not grow faster from this. However, there is nothing wrong with talking about a crisis: there is little benefit from them, but there is no harm either.
And Language, as before, lives its own life, slow and incomprehensible, constantly changing and at the same time always remaining itself. Anything can happen to the Russian language: perestroika, transformation, transformation, but not extinction. It is too big, powerful, flexible, dynamic and unpredictable to take and suddenly disappear. Unless - together with us.
Dictatorship - to the proletariat
Test your literacy with the help of texts specially compiled for this purpose by Boris Strugatsky and Dmitry Bykov
Was on a business trip. At the hotel, I received a receipt from the administrator for paying for the room. A rectangular stamp (not handwritten, mind you!) boldly proclaims: "PAID".
Today, many sincerely believe that studying spelling these days is a waste of time and effort. What for? School essays now it is customary to hand over in the form of a computer printout. And the darling computer will show all the errors, underline them in red or green. And then - at random - the schoolboy will correct them.
In 2004, in Novosibirsk, a city that has long been considered the center of scientific intelligence, an idea arose: what if scientists were tested for literacy? According to archaic, primitive rules, which are about to completely sink into oblivion. How? And so. Here is a sheet of paper, here is a pen, and - write a dictation! The action was called "Total dictation". That is to say, anyone could take part in the test.
And accepted. It’s interesting, after all: can I cope with a fairly simple text one on one, without a PC? Since then, the annual "Total Dictation" has become a tradition.
Last year it was decided that for greater interest, the texts of dictations should be exclusive. And invited as an author famous science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky. And they hinted: you don’t dictate too abstruse words, otherwise we won’t be shamed. The dictation was written by 2396 people, including ministers of the regional government, prominent scientists and businessmen. As a result of a soft, friendly approach, only two dozen people received credit.
AT this year Novosibirsk initiatives continued. This time the writer was famous writer, columnist and TV presenter Dmitry Bykov.
We invite readers to test themselves for literacy. We present two dictations: last year's by Boris Strugatsky and the current one by Dmitry Bykov.
Laziness? Drop it! You don't even have to write. In both texts, we have already "scattered" rude and not very rude spelling errors. Including incorrectly put (or not put) punctuation marks. You just have to find them. And count.
Hint: each proposed dictation contains 50 errors. Exactly so much did one of the presidents of the United States in the school dictation offered to him. So in case of anything, do not complex ...
Dictation from Boris Strugatsky:
What is the reason for the decline of the Russian language and does it exist at all?
There is no decline, and there cannot be. They simply softened the censorship, and in part, thank God, they completely abolished it, and what we used to hear in pubs and doorways, today complicates our hearing, reaching from the stage and from television screens. We are inclined to consider this the onset of lack of culture and the decline of the language, but after all, lack of culture, like any devastation, is neither in books nor on the stage - it is in the souls and in the heads. And with the latter, in my opinion, nothing significant has happened in recent years. Is that our bosses (again, thank God) diverted from idiology and got carried away more by sawing the budget. So, the languages have grown up, and the Language has been enriched with remarkable innovations in the widest range: from “hedging the GKO portfolio with the help of futures” to the emergence of Internet jargon.
Talk about the decline in general and Language in particular is, in fact, the result of the lack of clear instructions from the top. Appropriate indications will appear - and the decline will stop as if by itself, immediately giving way to some kind of "new flourishing" and universal sovereign "good air".
Literature flourishes happily, finally remaining almost without censorship and in the shadow of liberal laws concerning book publishing. The reader is spoiled to the limit. Every year there are several dozen books of such significance that, if any of them appeared on the shelves twenty-five years ago, it would immediately become the syndication of the year, and today it causes only condescendingly approving grumbling of criticism. Talk about the notorious “crisis of literature” does not subside - the public demands the immediate appearance of new Bulgakovs, Chekhovs, Tolstoys, as usual, forgetting that any classic is necessarily a “product of the time”, like good wine and, in general, like all good things. Do not pull the tree up by the branches, it will not grow faster from this. However, there is nothing wrong with talking about a crisis: there is little benefit from them, but there is no harm either.
And Language, as before, lives its own life - slow and incomprehensible, constantly changing and at the same time always remaining itself. Anything can happen to the Russian language: restructuring, transformation, acquisition, but not extinction. It is too big, powerful, flexible, dynamic and unpredictable to take and suddenly disappear. Except with us.
Dictation from Dmitry Bykov:
Spelling as a law of nature
The question of why literacy is needed is widely and passionately debated. It would seem that today, when even a computer program is able to correct not only spelling, but also the meaning, the average Russian does not need to know the countless and sometimes meaningless subtleties of his native spelling. I'm not talking about commas that are unlucky twice. At first, in the liberal nineties, they were placed anywhere or ignored altogether, claiming that this was an author's mark. Schoolchildren still widely use the unwritten rule: if you don’t know what to put, put a dash. No wonder it is called that - a sign of despair. Then, in the stable zero, people began to play it safe and put commas where they were not needed at all.
True, all this confusion with signs does not affect the meaning of the message in any way. Why write well then?
I think this is something like those necessary conventions that replace our specific canine scent when sniffing. Any developed interlocutor, having received an electronic message, identifies the author by a thousand little things. Of course, he does not see handwriting, unless the message came in a bottle, but a letter from a philologist containing spelling errors can be erased without reading it.
It is known that at the end of the war, the Germans, who used Russian labor, threatened to extort a special listing from the Slavic slaves: “Someone treated me wonderfully and deserves indulgence.” The soldiers of the liberators, having occupied one of the suburbs of Berlin, read the letter proudly presented by the owner with a dozen gross errors, signed by a university student. The degree of sincerity of the author became obvious to them at once, and the philistine slave owner paid for his vile prudence.
Today we have almost no chance to quickly understand who is in front of us - the ability to disguise is cunning and numerous. You can imitate the mind, communicableness, even, perhaps, intelligence. It is impossible to play only literacy - a refined form of politeness. The last identification mark of humble and mindful people who respect the laws of the language as higher form laws of nature. | SG |
What is the reason for the decline of the Russian language and does it exist at all?
What is the reason for the decline of the Russian language and does it exist at all?
There is no decline, and there cannot be. It’s just that censorship was softened, and in part, thank God, it was completely abolished, and what we used to hear in pubs and gateways now delights our ears, coming from the stage and from television screens. We tend to consider this the onset of lack of culture and the decline of the Language, but lack of culture, like any devastation, is not in books and not on the stage, it is in the souls and in the heads. And with the latter, in my opinion, nothing significant has happened in recent years. Unless our bosses, again, thank God, diverted from ideology and got carried away more by sawing the budget. So the languages have blossomed, and the Language has been enriched with remarkable innovations in the widest range - from “hedging the GKO portfolio with the help of futures” to the emergence of Internet jargon.
Talk about the decline in general and Language in particular is, in fact, the result of the lack of clear instructions from above. Appropriate indications will appear - and the decline will stop as if by itself, immediately giving way to some kind of "new flourishing" and universal sovereign "good air".
Literature is flourishing, finally remaining almost without censorship and in the shadow of liberal laws concerning book publishing. The reader is spoiled to the limit. Every year, several dozen books of such a level of significance appear that, if any of them appeared on the shelves 25 years ago, it would immediately become a sensation of the year, and today it causes only condescendingly approving grumbling of criticism. Talk about the notorious “crisis of literature” does not subside, the public demands the immediate appearance of new Bulgakov, Chekhov, thick ones, forgetting, as usual, that any classic is necessarily a “product of the time”, like good wine and, in general, like all good things. Do not pull the tree up by the branches: it will not grow faster from this. However, there is nothing wrong with talking about a crisis: there is little benefit from them, but there is no harm either.
And Language, as before, lives its own life, slow and incomprehensible, constantly changing and at the same time always remaining itself. Anything can happen to the Russian language: perestroika, transformation, transformation, but not extinction. It is too big, powerful, flexible, dynamic and unpredictable to take and suddenly disappear. Unless - together with us.
(330 words) B. N. Strugatsky
