Irina Levontina is a famous linguist, leading researcher at the Institute of Russian Language. V.V. Vinogradova RAS, author of dictionaries and brilliant articles, popularizer of linguistics, specialist in forensic linguistic examination, columnist of the newspaper “Troitsky Variant - Science”. And for 20 years now she has been writing funny and bright essays about changes in the Russian language, about new words and unusual grammatical constructions, about the speech of representatives of different generations and social strata, about the sayings of politicians and advertising “gems.” These essays were included in the books “Russian with a Dictionary” (2010, 2016) and “What are we talking about” (2016). Over the past years, new stories have been added to them. This is how the book “Honest Word” turned out - a fascinating chronicle that covers the period from the 90s of the twentieth century to 2020 and convincingly proves that language, according to the author, is inseparable from life: “Our life is saturated with language - and itself in it dissolved."

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