Spelling is a whole science. And the word itself is of Greek origin and literally translates as “correct writing”, or “spelling”. Contrary to the popular notion that spelling is something that has always existed unchanged, the rules for writing words have changed. And there was no unified spelling system in the Russian language, for example, for a long time. The basic rules of Russian spelling that are used today were formed by the middle of the 20th century. Over time, the laws governing the spelling of words may change.
How did spelling come about?
In any case, in Russian, spelling is a set of rules for writing words, formed on the basis of the works of the classics of the Golden Age of Russian literature: Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Goncharov and others. When the question arose of how one or another unverifiable word was spelled, they looked at how these writers used it and set the standard.
Spelling is a logical system
But there are far fewer unchecked words in Russian than in some other languages. Checking Russian spelling is a check with the rules for writing a particular word or a search for a test word.
Literacy of the population of Russia today
It is difficult to answer the question: "Are people literate now or not?". On the one hand, today in Russia it is impossible to find a person older than five or seven years old who cannot read or write, and on the other hand, on the Internet or in real correspondence, sometimes people make such blatant mistakes that they want to cry.
How to become more literate if you have already graduated from school?
There are very, very few people with innate absolute literacy, but they do exist. And the rest have to work, studying the rules of spelling, grammar, style and punctuation. But there are ways to become more literate, even if you are already an adult. Let's list some of them.
- Read a lot of books. When reading, the eyes eventually remember the appearance of words, and then, while writing, the idea of \u200b\u200bhow to write the word correctly comes “by itself”, intuitively.
- Play word games. Particularly recommended are Typesetter, Burime, Contact, Scrabble, and Hat. The fact is that in the process of these games, you divide the word into its component parts, and then compose them again many times, so that, willy-nilly, you remember these parts. And when you guess the word, you also remember its correct spelling.
- Transcribe Russian speech. Learn the basic laws of Russian phonetic transcription and special notations and, for example, transcribe your favorite poem. Here you will see howit will be difficult for you to write "wrong". But every time you will do an operation in your brain: “So, this is written with an “o”, but we say “a”!”
- Learn foreign languages. Firstly, when studying the languages of other countries, you learn a different system, master other rules than in your native language, and due to this, develop your analytical thinking. Secondly, there are a lot of borrowings in Russian, and once you learn how to write a root in another language (especially in Greek or Latin), you will never make a mistake in writing it in Russian again.
