Living as life

We no longer hear in cafes and restaurants the once -popular word “Frishtykita”, slowly forget that satellites may not have a relationship with the Cosmos, only a few will remember how the registry office is deciphered, and no one says: “It has stunned me,” not Thinking about the heroic helmet. Any living language is always moving, forever growing, and the Russian language is “alive as life.”
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (1882–1969) gave children many wonderful fairy tales, and people who are not indifferent to the history and fate of the Russian language - this one. book. “We are all,” says Korney Ivanovich, “we must fight that our language does not become“ dead as death ”. Therefore, this book is not just a collection of linguistic observations and jokes, but also a fascinating show of issues that spears are breaking today. How to preserve the purity and imagery of the Russian language? Do his borrowings and jargonisms spoil it? And why is the clericalism the most terrible and dangerous ailment that threatens the Russian language?