The scientist refuted the myth about the illiteracy of modern Russian youth

The claim that modern Russian youth are illiterate is a myth; the Russian language is changing to describe the world around us. This was stated by Vladimir Pakhomov, a researcher at the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

“We cannot say that young people are illiterate, that those generations that came before spoke a more beautiful, more correct Russian language. It seems to us so simply because for us the standard is always in the past, because the pronunciation of the past really seems more beautiful to us,” Pakhomov denied.

According to him, if each next generation were more illiterate than the previous one, then there would be no language now. Pakhomov noted that the Russian language is changing and developing, making it possible to describe the world around us.