{"id":6885,"date":"2012-04-19T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2012-04-19T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:28:53","slug":"cleaning-up-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6885","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning up Russian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/art-and-culture\/news\/russian-language-epic-cleaning-368\/\">article<\/a> I found today, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science plans to &#8216;clean up&#8217; Russian by removing foreign loanwords and replacing them with native words. They plan to revise dictionaries, school textbooks, and to set up a website to explain the changes. The website will give Russian speakers a chance to check Russian usage with experts. Examples of foreign words give in the article are policymakeri and trendsetteri<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of thing that organisations like <em>L&#8217;Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise<\/em> have been trying to do for years, without much success. While the new words might be adopted in formal usage, the chances of this happening in everyday speech and writing don&#8217;t seem very high. People tend to stick with the words they&#8217;re used to, unless new words become trendy.<\/p>\n<p>Have there been efforts to &#8216;clean up&#8217; other languages that you know of and that have succeeded?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I found today, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science plans to &#8216;clean up&#8217; Russian by removing foreign loanwords and replacing them with native words. They plan to revise dictionaries, school textbooks, and to set up a website to explain the changes. The website will give Russian speakers a chance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-russian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}