(C) E. Nesterenko (Jam / XPJ)
Great and mighty ...
- AAA-pchhi!
- Cheers!
- Thank you!
- Please!
- Not rude older!
- I went to dick!
Anecdote.
What am I doing? Oh yeah, I remember: occurred to me
suddenly (all events in life start with the word "suddenly") to
become editor of PC Magazine. A part-time - and a proofreader.
Said - done. It's been awhile. I realized
awful truth: the Russian language is so
"Great and powerful", that well use it, unfortunately, is given
not for everyone. And especially so-called
"Geek." (About "Fido and Internet grow," I generally keep quiet
- there as a school teacher used to say, "just quiet horror").
The reasons for such ignorance, not counting the aforementioned
complexity of the language itself, lie on the surface: if a
person is good given the "exact" science, the humanities, as a
rule, "left out" ...
So, like sorting out one
age-old question "Who is to blame?" - I continued to correct
texts. And once suddenly (again that "suddenly"!) noted that
constantly reading "shoddy" texts
he began "losing style." I did not like, and I thought about
another age-old question: "what to do? The options were as
follows:
1) Stop reading fidoshnye Ehi
Spectrum magazines. Thought, of course, not the best (in any
case, about the Spectrum magazines). Too
already firmly entrenched on this computer in my
life.
2) Adjust the text of all spekovskih electronic media
itself. Too no good. Firstly, it is unlikely I will be able
convince all the "zhurnaloizdateley" send
my own material for processing. And if
even they will do it, I do not
had neither the time nor the energy prodelyvat such work.
3) strengthening dilute "computer
Fiction classical literature. Few
better. But, unfortunately, all my home
Library has been repeatedly re-read, and
new books can not get as often as desired.
And suddenly (again!) I visited when
not genius, then, in any case, a smart idea: "And what if you
write about everything this article, and stamped it in our
Esme? "No sooner said than done. Here it is, the article
something to you.
Well, after this intro can be
go to the main part, that is the main one (in my opinion) the
problems of language illiteracy in the ranks spektrumistov. I
apologize in advance if you made below the truth to someone may
seem banal, but all these examples are drawn from those
articles with which I had to face both as a proofreader, and in
as the average reader ...
List of most common errors
I pre-omitting all punctuation
and stylistic errors (because they are not so
grossly conspicuous, and to fix them we would need a series of
lectures), and will focus primarily on spelling.
1) verb forms. The mistake occurs most commonly:
tsya-and-tsya in verbs. Basically, it turns out that the soft
sign is put in when he just not needed. One can not make a
mistake? Propose a simple and reliable way: Before you write
such a verb, try, ask the question: "what to do?"
Example 1: Should we put the "b" in the word "receive"?
The verb is used in This time, it is appropriate for him
question: "what is being done?" Because in a word-issue soft
sign there, then do not need it and The word "obtained".
Example 2: the word "laugh". Verb in
indeterminate form, ie question to him
will be "what to do?" (can also be
"What to do?" - To laugh, for example)
so "b" is set. Here is pripletu another rule:-NIL-and shsya
always to write with a soft sign!
2) solid and separate writing
words. The second most frequently used error. Here I am uniting
several Groups errors.
2.1), "Do not" with verbs. Everything is simple. Remember
once and for all: "NO" to the verb WRITES SEPARATELY!
Exceptions - when no particle "not" the verb is not used. For
example: hate.
2.2) The particle "a". With the words "who"
"What" "where" and others "that" writes always
hyphenated. This also applies to "any"
(Someone somewhere).
2.3) "general" and "in general". Somewhere
appeared a horrible hybrid: "in general". No such word!
Approximate synonyms "in general": "in addition", "well," in
principle " etc. As for the "in general", it can be replaced by
"So," "thus" "Generally", etc.
* I can not ignore another
"Popular" word "pathology". Term
"Pathology" comes from the Greek "pathos", therefore, be
written only through the "o": pathology, pathologist, etc.
Words are "Pathology" in general do not exist!
2.4) "Also" and "too". Often confusion occurs in the solid
and separate writing "also" and "too". As here
be? Everything depends on the meaning of the phrase. If
means "adding," we should write together.
Example 1: WELL, I took a sip of beer. And I
Too. Here, "also" can be replaced, for example, "and even" or
"addition". And if implies a comparison, the adverb with
particle are used separately.
Example 2: I did the same as
he said. And he did the same thing.
3) "Not" and "no." The particle "not" is
for negation, and "no" - for GAIN denial.
Example 1: You're not alone.
Example 2: Neither the one nor the other.
4) "No" and "devil." The prefix "without"
written before voiced consonants, and
"Devil" in front of the deaf.
Example 1: Carefree.
Example 2: Immortal.
Example 3: Headless - if separately, then the only "no"!
Well, not bored? Then move on
yet another group of errors. Perhaps such
mistakes are possible only in a medium tortured
English. This is similar sounding to
both languages, words that are written, the
Yet, in many ways.
5) Similar words.
Example 1: coMMand - team
Example 2: aMMunition - ammunition
Example 3: aTTribute - attributes
I could cite many more
examples, but I have covered here only those
errors that occur very frequently.
If you do not believe me, take any electronic edition,
"poroytes" in it, and be sure to find at least one of the above
errors. And yet. Avoid if possible avoid phrases like "rulez",
"Saks" or the like "pearls" (or at least replace them
synonyms). It's not that they clog it, just such "tokens" you
narrow down your vocabulary up to the size well-known heroine
of the novel "12 Chairs" ... Of course, I understand,
"shortness of sister talent, but one should know when to stop!
especially if you write the lyrics for electronic publications,
which, in theory, should be model of literacy and a good style
...
P.S. Dear "writers"! Understand
me wrong, I do not wish to ridicule or
someone or to show their own superiority, I just want all of us
(I, By the way, too) have learned to competently express
their thoughts in their native language, not "korezha"
and it is not distorting. The purpose of this article -
tell those who do not notice their own mistakes. Do not poke
the snout, namely prompt! That's it.
