Linguist Maxim Krongauz about the adventures of the Russian language on the Internet and what it (not) threatens us with.
Internet forums, blogs, tweets, ICQ have long been part of our daily lives, almost the main place to communicate with other people. And therefore, the expressions “author zhzhot” or “drink yada” are by no means new for many. For some, this «game of illiteracy» amuses, for others it seems unacceptable. And not everyone knows that the deliberate violation of the rules by some Internet communities is considered an art and is called «orthoart» and that only a person who is fluent in the rules will be able to «correctly» break them. The book of the famous linguist Maxim Krongauz tells about the «orthoart», «grammar Nazis», «Olbantsy» and other «adventures» of the Russian language on the Internet. After reading it, we, perhaps, will become more tolerant of our interlocutors on the forums …
Corpus, 416 c.