Russian accent from ancient manuscripts to the Internet era» • Russia today Posting in CHAT: RussiaOn the International Day of Charity #GivingTuesday, the System Block publication and linguist Alexander Pipersky are holding a charity online lecture in support of the Path of Life foundation, which helps people with mental disabilities live independently without psychiatric help. Alexander Pipersky's lecture is devoted to the intricacies of the Russian accent - a complex system that confuses foreigners. We, the indigenous people, hardly think about how complex, interesting and diverse the Russian accent is. “If you say “beautiful,” you will be accused of being uneducated. If you say "convict", you probably work in the prosecutor's office. If you cleverly emphasize the ending, then the root, then the preposition, saying “hand”, “hand” and “for the hand”, you are most likely a native Russian speaker and don’t even think about it. But a foreigner must suffer,” says Alexander Pipersky about the upcoming lecture. During the lecture, students will learn: how stress distinguishes people in society; how did it happen that the ancient Russian stress system was simple and logical, but in modern Russian everything has become significantly more complicated; what the electronic corpus of Russian poetry can tell about stress, and whether Pushkin really wrote “you cook food in it” because he did not find a normal rhyme for “see” (spoiler: not true). Starts at 20.00 (Moscow time). To receive a link to join the broadcast, you must register. Source link Source link
