What mistakes did you make in total dictation? In which words did Krasnoyarsk residents make the most mistakes during the “Total Dictation”?

Novosibirsk residents wrote the first Total Dictation in 2004. Then the student club "Gloom Club" Faculty of Humanities NSU, headed by club president Ekaterina Kosykh, proposed the idea of organizing a mass dictation. Only 150 people took part in it.

The first 6 dictations were written in Novosibirsk within the walls of Novosibirsk State University, the texts were borrowed from the works of Russian classics. In 2009, 618 Novosibirsk residents had their knowledge of the Russian language tested. Of these, only seven lucky students received an “excellent” grade. 118 people received “good” ratings, 254 received “satisfactory” ratings, but only 239 volunteers received “2” grades. In the name of fairness, it should be noted that he offered an excerpt from the story “Nevsky Prospekt” by Gogol, which can hardly be considered correct, because the great Russian writer with Little Russian ethnic roots had too peculiar vocabulary and syntax. He is too far from Chekhov and Bunin.

Internet to help

At the same time, the mobile Internet became publicly available, and It became clear that any text from the classics can be found on the Internet and copied directly into dictation. The organizers realized that this was possible when in one of the works that claimed an A, they discovered extra sentences that were in the text of the work, but they were not in the dictation text offered to the participants. There was a need to create unique texts that would not be published on the Internet until the Total Dictation took place. The author of the first text, written specifically for TD, was the famous writer Boris Strugatsky. His text entitled “What is the reason for the decline of the Russian language and does it exist at all?” 2,600 Novosibirsk residents took dictation. The science fiction writer's text consisted of only 330 words, but the participants in the Total Dictation then set a record for the number of errors.

Interest and the desire to test their literacy encourage them to take part in a mass action. Photo from pixabay.com

Of the 2,600 people who tested their literacy, only 20 received “excellent,” 570 received “good,” and 1,000 received “satisfactory.” And a thousand people wrote a dictation with a bad mark. It was then that controversy began around the “Total Dictation”. Boris Strugatsky, no one argues, the writer was authoritative. But still the text from the pen of a science fiction writer came out slightly clumsy and boring. For the sake of objectivity: Boris Natanovich wrote his best works many years ago in collaboration with his brother, a military translator and editor. The expression “thank God” caused enormous controversy at the time.

“It would be better if it wasn’t in the text at all, and here’s why,” says Novosibirsk philologist Marina Senatorova. - IN Soviet years The word “god” was written with a small letter in all cases at school and in all newspapers. Nowadays, the word “God” is capitalized to mean one supreme being. In numerous stable combinations used outside of direct connection with religion, a lowercase letter should be written: God knows, God bless him, as God puts it in his soul. However, in some cases the choice of spelling depends on the context. So, it can be written “thank God” (if the context indicates that the speaker thanks the Lord God) and “thank God” (if the context makes it clear that a common colloquial expression is used). Total, that is, universal, dictation is written by everyone, including believers. And for them it is natural to write the word “God” with a capital letter, this is how they perceive this very context. They try not to take the name of God in vain. Strugatsky himself, for example, in the text of the dictation wrote “Language” with capital letters, giving this word additional meaning. And believers, of which there are many, always attach additional meaning to the word “God.” The end result is massive errors.

Another controversial point in Strugatsky’s text is closely related to this case: “Bulgakovs, Chekhovs, Tolstoys.” Almost every student knows: proper names Persons who have become common nouns are written with a lowercase letter: philanthropist, ladies' man, gigolo, dezhimorda. However, capitalization is retained if the surname, when used in a common noun, does not become a common noun. Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Chekhov are great writers, and they, of course, represent a certain type of people, but still their names have by no means lost their individual meaning, and therefore should definitely have been written with a capital letter, unless the author uses them in a contemptuous, contemptuous manner. derogatory meaning.

Girls better than text

“For many years I knew about “Total Dictation” and knew the people who wrote it,” says Novosibirsk writer Alexander Dukhnov. - "Just wondering"; “I want to test my literacy”; “Just to hang out,” is the answer that makes the most sense to me. The spirit of a flash mob hovers over the Total Dictation - to gather in an inappropriate place and collectively do something ridiculous. Dictation for fun - what could be more ridiculous? I'm an honest person, and I have nothing to hide. In Russian I have a “troika”, which tends to be a very indecent grade. Once, my friends and I came to Narkhoz to write and subsequently laugh at the results and at each other. Here, along the way, a large number of pretty students were discovered. The dictation itself seemed rather boring in content to me. The author Zakhar Prilepin was there all the time screwing in some light bulbs in the entrance, trying to begin with himself the restructuring of the collective consciousness. And it’s quite a decent event. The girls turned out to be better than the text.

Every year the number of participants Total dictation is growing. Photo from pixabay.com

In 2011, Dmitry Bykov became the author of the text for the Total Dictation. He, like Strugatsky, will share his thoughts on the state of the language. Bykov came to Novosibirsk on purpose. Then the action went beyond Novosibirsk: people in eleven Russian regions and even several people in the USA took part in it. In Novosibirsk, 2,695 people wrote the dictation, 47 of them received “excellent”. However, the most widespread mark was still a “two”: more than half of the participants could not satisfactorily cope with writing the text proposed by Bykov.

“Then the writing of the expression “Moscow University” caused controversy, and this is partly the author’s fault,” continues philologist Marina Senatorova. – The text for a literacy test should not contain controversial options, and this is just such a case. From the context it was clear that we're talking about specifically about Moscow state university: Therefore, a capital letter is needed. But these days there are many universities, people write dictations of different ages and everyday experience, they test knowledge exclusively of grammar: this means that the text must be impeccable from this point of view. If we assume that we are talking about one of many Moscow universities, a lowercase letter is required.

According to Bykov, he composed the text of the dictation in 20-30 minutes, which is funny, but hardly evokes respect among responsible and self-critical people. It would be necessary to be more careful.

On six continents

In 2014, the text for “Total Dictation” was written by the Ural prose writer Alexey Ivanov. He speaks a huge amount of Russian vocabulary and is sincerely passionate about the history of his native land. At the same time, Konstantin Khabensky, Andrei Makarevich, Maxim Krongauz, Andrei Konstantinov, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Seva Novgorodtsev and other popular personalities acted as “dictators”.

In 2014, “Total Dictation” was written on six continents, in 352 cities, in 47 countries near and far abroad. 64 thousand native Russian speakers decided to test their literacy – this is more than two times more than in 2013. The northernmost point of the dictation was Dikson in Taimyr, and the southernmost point was the Antarctic scientific station “Vostok”. The westernmost point was San Jose (California, USA), and the easternmost point was Auckland (New Zealand). A crew member of the International space station pilot-cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev - after all, the dictation was written on Cosmonautics Day. The leaders in the number of participants among foreign cities were Bishkek, Talin, Pavlodar and Riga.

Literacy and erudition are in fashion today. Photo from pixabay.com

About 2 thousand out of 64 thousand people did an excellent job with the dictation: this is a little more than 3%. 2% of the participants received “A” marks. The organizers believe that the improvement in the result was due, firstly, to the high literary quality of the then dictation text, and secondly, to the work free courses“Russian on Fridays”, which were attended by more than fifteen thousand people in many cities.

In Novosibirsk, 4,509 people passed the dictation, including 196 excellent students, that is, 4.3 percent, which is much higher general level. Common errors traditionally included the spelling of “n” and “nn” in suffixes and the prefixes “pre-” and “pri-”. The most errors were made in the words “platform”, “semaphore”, “front garden”, “accordion” and “razhristanny”.

The phrase “Chusovsky station” also caused difficulty – should the word “Chusovsky” be written with a capital or small letter? In Ivanov’s text, “Chusovsky station” is written with a small letter, because in in this case this is not a compound name: the old station is long gone, and it is not known what its official name was. Here is simply an adjective formed from geographical name according to the “Neva banks” type, “ Don Cossacks", "Moscow streets".

Let us add that in 2018 year will pass on Saturday, April 14, and will begin at 15.00 Novosibirsk time. . By the way, you should hurry up with registration - the number of places at some sites is limited.

2004 – Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace.”

2005 – Alexander Bek, “Volokolamsk Highway”.

2006 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, “Taimyr Lake”.

2007 – Vasil Bykov, “Sotnikov”.

2008 – Rudyard Kipling, “Naulaka: Stories of the West and the East.”

2009 – Nikolai Gogol, “Nevsky Prospekt”.

2010 – Boris Strugatsky.

2011 – Dmitry Bykov.

2012 – Zakhar Prilepin.

2013 – Dina Rubina.

2014 – Alexey Ivanov.

2015 – Evgeny Vodolazkin.

2016 – Andrey Usachev.

2017 – Leonid Yuzefovich.

Linguists continue to analyze the dictation in parts. In 2016, there were 102 excellent students. The increase in the number of “A” grades was influenced by the regular training of participants in the action in face-to-face and online courses. In addition, in 2017, for the first time, the organizers of the event spoke in advance about the nine words that will appear in the dictation.

For example, the word “sterlet,” in which the largest number of errors were made, was “revealed” before the start of the dictation, and everyone who was interested in carrying out the action could remember its spelling. But the word still became the leader in the number of errors made.

Expert Natalya Koshkareva named the saddest mistake in the second part of the Total Dictation: it is no coincidence that it was made by Eva Dalaskina (a fictional character to whom, since 2015, members of the Expert Council have attributed mistakes, “mishearses”).

“Instead of writing separately “the streets were named ACCORDING to the temples that stood on them” (that is, the names of the streets were given in accordance with the names of the temples that were located on them), Eva Dalaskina wrote a combination of the preposition “by” with the participle “stood” together. Eva Dalaskina found that the churches “stood” on these streets for some time,” the expert commented.

According to Natalya Koshkareva, the rules that will first need to be prepared for the 2018 dictation will be clear when the new text appears. But there are the most common mistakes: merged and separate writing NOT with words of different parts of speech, one and two N, punctuation marks in a complex sentence, especially in cases where two signs must be placed at the same time, each based on its own rule.

“A colon is placed after the generalizing word “second (streets)” before the row homogeneous members“Sibirskaya, Solikamskaya, Verkhoturskaya”. The colon is a strong sign, it absorbs other signs that happen to be close to it. Therefore, putting a colon in this case is easiest,” the linguist explained.

An acceptable sign for homogeneous terms with a generalizing word is also a dash. It could also be placed in this sentence, but the dash does not absorb the characters that should come before it. That is why the subordinate clause “where the roads leading from them led” in this case had to be highlighted with commas on both sides.

“A combination of characters often causes errors, so it is better to follow the standard options. For a generalizing word that comes before a number of homogeneous members, such a reference sign is a colon,” advised Natalya Koshkareva.

On the page with the recording of the online dictation analysis there are tables and matrices where 30 options are allowed, and all are correct, so the question often arises about the limits of variability.

“There’s really no variability. Each sign conveys its own meaning. They put a colon - they wanted to emphasize the reason or explanation. Divided parts of the non-union complex sentence commas, which means they simply listed the events. The choice of signs is not arbitrary or accidental, it depends on the meanings and nuances that the writer wants to convey,” explained Natalya Koshkareva and gave an example.

“I won’t call you () you’ll be offended” - without punctuation marks it is impossible to determine the relationship between the parts.

“Dash: the offense is a consequence of the fact that I didn’t call. Colon: Possible offense is the reason why I don't call you. “Maybe I’ll have to tell you something unpleasant,” the linguist showed the significance of the signs and meaning of the text.

NOVOSIBIRSK, April 22 – RIA Novosti. Experts checking texts written as part of the international campaign “Total Dictation” this year were faced with the fact that participants often made mistakes in words such as “half-heartedly” and “half-turned”; writing these adverbs is included in the Unified State Examination program.

“Total dictation” was written by almost 94 thousand people this yearIn Russia, 84,275 people wrote the dictation in 79 regions with the exception of Chukotka, Tuva, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Karachay-Cherkessia and Novgorod region. This year, Moscow became the leader in the number of participants among all cities for the first time.

“Two words turned out to be the leaders in errors. In the second part of the dictation, this is the word “half-heartedly,” where almost 71% of those who wrote made mistakes, and in the third part the word “half-turned,” where 78% of those who wrote made a mistake. This is quite strange and for us in what way “to an unexpected degree,” the chairman of the action’s expert commission, philologist Natalya Koshkareva, told reporters on Wednesday.

She noted that this rule is being worked out in high school and it is included in the tasks for the Unified State Exam. However, it turns out that it has been completely unmastered by those who, on average, write “Total Dictation”. Most common mistake there was a spelling of “half an ear”.

“Most likely the situation is due to the fact that this rule competes with another rule for writing nouns like “half-ear”, “half-turn” with a hyphen if the second part of the word begins with a vowel, and the adverbs “half-ear” and “half-turn” should be written together. That is, the rule for nouns is well remembered, but such adverbs are exceptions, and they are remembered less well,” Koshkareva said.

According to her, such errors may be related to the need to revise these rules; at least, philologists are faced with the question of why errors in these words are made so massively.

“We expected that the largest number of errors would be in obsolete words, such as “gramophone,” but our expectations were not confirmed. In that word, only 7% made mistakes. That is, the idea that obsolete words cause difficulties was not justified here ", said the expert.

Also, according to her, mistakes were often made in the words “invisible,” “incomprehensible,” and “not obvious.” For these words, the error rate was 32%. Koshkareva noted that these mistakes are traditional and associated with complex rule writing together and separately particles “not”.

As for punctuation, the text of the dictation contained adverbs “at the same time”, “in general”, which should not be separated by commas, but the writers mistakenly took them for introductory words and separated by commas. This is from 13% to 15% errors. The word “in general” stands out sharply from this series. This adverbial combination also should not be separated by commas, but 70% of those who wrote put commas around it. This is also a question for philologists, the expert noted.

According to Koshkareva, philologists expected massive errors in the word “burns” due to the spread of this word on the Internet in the so-called “Albanian” language in the form of “zhzhot”, however, as the dictation showed, only a few made mistakes in this word.

Total dictation - annual educational event in the form of a voluntary dictation for everyone. Its goal is to give every person the opportunity to test their knowledge of the Russian language and awaken interest in improving literacy. The idea of voluntary dictation for everyone was born at Novosibirsk State University. Over the 12 years of its existence, “Total Dictation” has turned into a large-scale international event.

Total in " Total dictation"This year, 93.7 thousand people took part in 58 countries and 549 cities. In Russia, 84.3 thousand people wrote the dictation in 79 regions of the country.

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The results of the international action that took place on April 18 were summed up in Yekaterinburg "Total dictation": only 1% of those who wanted to test their knowledge of the Russian language wrote the proposed passage as “excellent” - 21 people out of 1854 who came. How many residents of the Urals who participated in the cultural event received twos, threes and fours is not disclosed according to the rules of the exam, Uralinformburo reports.

This year, participants in the “Total Dictation” wrote a text called “The Magic Lantern,” created by St. Petersburg writer Evgeny Vodolazkin and representing an artistic sketch of the life of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.

As Ksenia Semenyuk, coordinator of the event in Yekaterinburg, said at a press conference, the results of writing the dictation were within the normal range - usually the number of excellent students ranges from 1% to 3%. In turn, Assistant Vice-Rector for Scientific and Innovation Activities of the Ural State pedagogical university Marina Babikova spoke about a kind of “anti-record” of the action - one of the participants in the “Total Dictation” made 273 mistakes in the 280 words that made up the passage.

“When checking, it looked something like he was writing a dictation with a red pen, and we checked it with a blue one,” Babikova said, as quoted by Interfax. “We encountered this for the first time and at first assumed that he was not Russian by nationality and this was not his native language, but through research and all sorts of discussions, we came to the conclusion that after all, the person is Russian,” she added.

However, from a scan of a dictation written by a “record holder for errors” and posted on the Komsomolskaya Pravda website, one can rather draw the opposite conclusion - the peculiarities of writing the letters of the Russian alphabet and some words suggest that it was written by a foreigner.

The teachers carefully hide the name of this person; they only call his gender - male. It is also known that the young man wrote dictation at the Ural Pedagogical University.

"Of course, unique case. My colleagues and I discussed this work today and could not find any explanation for such blatant illiteracy,” Ksenia Semenyuk, coordinator of the “Total Dictation” in Yekaterinburg, told KP. According to her, the text contained all kinds of errors that you can imagine, but , for example, the examinee wrote the complex word “something” correctly.

In turn, the head of the “Total Dictation” group of the USPU admitted to journalists that the examiners “almost in unison” checked this text. “The person has an absolute F. We don’t think this is a joke. This was most likely written by a person for whom Russian is not his native language. The errors are mainly of the “what I hear, I write” category. There are practically no punctuation errors. This namely spelling,” she noted. “The man simply doesn’t know the Russian language. But he came and wrote the text to the end. In any case, he’s great!” - summed up the head of the group.

As it became known, three more participants of the “Total Dictation”, who came to the site of the Ural State Pedagogical University, decided to approach the task creatively and wrote not a dictation, but an essay on a free topic.

Representatives of the Yekaterinburg organizing committee spoke in detail about the assessments only based on the results of the dictation written by Sverdlovsk journalists, notes New Region. “Out of 25 journalists, one received an “excellent” rating, 40% of those who wrote had a satisfactory result, and 28% each scored “good” and “unsatisfactory,” said Ksenia Semenyuk.

As Marina Babikova, assistant vice-rector for scientific and innovative activities at the Ural State Pedagogical University, explained, this year the number of participants in Yekaterinburg was somewhat smaller than expected. In her opinion, the popularity of the action has decreased due to the lack of “proper coverage” and advertising. She also noted that this year the dictation was popular among middle-aged people, while in 2014 the participants were mainly young people.

The most errors were in the words “half-ear” and “half-turn”

According to Ksenia Semenyuk, the adverbs “half-ear” and “half-turn” caused the greatest difficulties for Yekaterinburg residents, Interfax reports. “More than 70% of those who took part in this year’s dictation made mistakes in spelling these words,” she noted. In addition, the protesters made mistakes in the words “gramophone”, “oarlock” and “checkered”. It was also difficult to write adjectives with the prefix “not” - “invisible”, “unobvious”, “incomprehensible”.

The adverbs “half-heartedly” and “half-turned,” the writing of which is included in the Unified State Examination program, also caused difficulties for other participants in the “Total Dictation” in different regions of the Russian Federation. This was stated last Wednesday by experts checking the texts.

“Most likely, the situation is due to the fact that this rule competes with another rule for writing nouns like “half-ear”, “half-turn” with a hyphen if the second part of the word begins with a vowel, and the adverbs “half-ear” and “half-turn” must written together. That is, the rule for nouns is well remembered, but such adverbs are exceptions, and they are remembered less well,” Koshkareva said.

Also, according to her, mistakes were often made in the words “invisible,” “incomprehensible,” and “not obvious.” For these words, the error rate was 32%. Koshkareva noted that these errors are traditional and are associated with a complex rule for writing “not” particles together and separately.

As for punctuation, in the text of the dictation there were adverbs “at the same time”, “in general”, which should not be set off with commas, but the writers mistakenly took them for introductory words and set them off with commas. The word “in general” stands out sharply from this series. This adverbial combination also should not be separated by commas, but 70% of those who wrote put commas around it.

According to Koshkareva, philologists expected massive errors in the verb “burns” due to the spread of this word in Internet slang, but only a few made errors in the word.

"Total Dictation" is an annual educational event in the form of a voluntary dictation for everyone. The purpose of the event is to give every person the opportunity to test their knowledge of the Russian language and awaken interest in improving literacy. The idea of voluntary dictation for everyone arose at Novosibirsk State University. Over the 12 years of its existence, “Total Dictation” has turned into a large-scale international event. In total, 93.7 thousand people in 58 countries and 549 cities took part in the “Total Dictation” this year. In Russia, 84.3 thousand people wrote the dictation in 79 regions.