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In the Beginning, There Was Coffee. Linguistic Myths, Speech "Errors," and Other Reasons to Clash in Russian Language Debates

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Svetlana Guryanova, philologist, Russian language teacher, and author of the blog istoki_slova, debunks the main myths about the Russian language in her book and exposes those who invent tall tales about it. She also offers a wealth of counterarguments that will pacify even the most ardent grammar Nazis!

Without dry, academic lectures, but drawing on the latest scientific research in linguistics, the author explores the past and present of the Russian language, answering questions such as:

- Is it really so illiterate to say "delicious coffee," "cleaning," "sit down," and "eating"? Do we really have enough of our own words, and are borrowings ruining the Russian language?
- Are feminitives a necessity or just a figment of activists' imaginations?
- Who are linguafreaks, and should we take these incredible stories about word origins 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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