The current set of "Rules of Russian Spelling and Punctuation" was created more than half a century ago (published in 1956) and represents the first experience of the code, which summarized and legitimized many scattered recommendations in this area, accumulated over more than two hundred years of development of the theory and practice of Russian spelling, starting with the reforms of Peter I. However, the publication of this code did not solve and could not solve all the problems of Russian spelling, they accumulated quite a lot. In addition, over the past half-century, significant changes have taken place in the social life of the country, in the mentality of our people, and hence in the language. In particular, the authors of the new code rightly note that " in the modern language, units that stand on the border between a word and a part of a word have become more active; among them, such as mini, maxi, video, audio, media, retro, etc. appear. In the Rules of 1956, it is impossible to find an answer to the question whether to write such units together with the next part of the word or separated by a hyphen. Many recommendations for using uppercase letters are outdated. Certain punctuation rules need to be clarified and supplemented in connection with updating the syntactic structure of texts, especially in the mass media, reflecting the stylistic diversity and dynamism of modern speech" (p.9).
At the same time, new material and language facts were being accumulated and studied, and the corresponding spelling and punctuation rules were being improved, but they were not reflected in the current code, which, for various reasons, has not been reprinted since its publication. It was only with the beginning of perestroika that the Vinogradov Academic Institute of the Russian Language (Moscow) was assigned a special spelling direction, which was transformed in 1992 into the Spelling and Punctuation Sector. Three years earlier, the Academy of Sciences approved a new Spel ...
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