Spelling - is a science.And the word - of Greek origin and literally means "correct writing" or "spelling".Contrary to popular conception of what the spelling - it is something that has always existed in unchanged form, spelling rules were changed.Yes, and a single system of spelling in Russian, for example, was a long time.Basic rules of Russian orthography, which are used today were formed by the middle of the XX century.Over time, the laws governing the spelling of words can change.
How did the spelling?
Anyway, in the Russian language, spelling - a set of rules spelling, formed on the basis of the classics of the Golden Age of Russian literature: Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Goncharov and others.When the question arose, how to spell a particular word unchecked, it looked like it was used, these writers, and to set standards.
Spelling - a logical system
But unchecked words in the Russian language is far less than in some other languages.Test of Russian spelling - is reconciled with the rules of spelling of a word or search for the word verification.
Literacy Russia today
It is difficult to answer the question: "Now people are literate or not?".On the one hand, today's Russia is not possible to find a person older than five to seven years, which would be unable to read or write, and the other - on the internet or in real correspondence sometimes people make such outrageous for the immediate correction of a mistake that I want to cry.
How to become a literate, if the school has graduated?
People with innate absolute literacy is very, very small, but they are.And the rest have to work hard, learn the rules of spelling, grammar, style and punctuation.But there are ways to become literate, even if you have already reached adulthood.Here are some of them.
- read a lot of books.When reading the eye over time remember the look of words, and then, at the time of writing, the idea of how to write a word that comes "of itself," intuitively.
- Play word games.Especially recommended "Typewriting", "Burime", "Contact", "Scrabble" and "hat".The fact is that during these games, you dissect the word into its component parts and then compose them again many times, so willy-nilly, memorize these parts.And if you are still guessing the word and remember it the correct spelling.
- Russian transcribe speech.Learn the basic laws of Russian phonetic transcription and special designations, for example, zatranskribiruyte your favorite poem.You'll see how hard you would write "wrong."But every time you are going to be doing in his brain surgery, "So it is written through the" o ", and then we say," well "!»
- learn a foreign language.Firstly, the study of the languages of other countries you learn a different system, master the different rules than in their native language, and due to this develop their analytical thinking.Second, in many Russian loans, and just learned the writing of a root in a different language (especially in Greek or Latin), you will never make a mistake in his writing in Russian.
