Quote Originally Posted by Капитан
My apologies. Why on Earth would one want to give up the pure and heavenly sounding classical Russian language for some brutally cut and shallowly substantiated 'modern Russian'? I like the way it sounds, "возьми я..". Actually I miss the fidelity and delicateness of older written and spoken Russian. I believe that if most of the native speakers abandoned their heritage for jargon and borrowed computer/marketing/PR terminology, it would be foreingers who would teach us how to speak the wonderful language of our classical writers.
К чему этот пафос?
Lermontov's or Pushkin's language could be perfect, but nowadays people speak a bit different. That's not bad or good, that's reality.