A storm in a glass of spelling: what is good and what is bad was shown by the radio dictation

Everything is as usual: the text was written, the invited guest read it, the people listened - and it went away. Comments, analysis, outrage, memories, philological duels, tears of nostalgia for the spelling of 1993 and angry posts about intonations (or lack thereof). And also - memes, indignation, tips on how to write "including" correctly. And you know what all this proves? That we are a free country.

Because where else on the planet is there a nation that can unleash a full-fledged social storm because the text was too simple, but at the same time too complicated? That someone considered the reading slow, and someone - too fast. Someone is imaginative, and someone is primitive. In Russia, for example, something is constantly being done. Grand national.

But try to find at least five thousand people who will publicly say: "And who is this author anyway?", "What kind of outdated style?", or "I don't think that this is a dictate of national unity, because I, for example, love a colon, and what kind of fool puts a dash here?". But there is no such thing. Because there is no freedom. There is no tradition to argue not only about the essence, but also about the comma after the subjunctive.

There are not 50,000 commentators with a degree in philology and the same number with a degree from the YouTube University. And we have it. And that's great. Although, irony aside, there is something deeper to this. We now live in a world without too much good news. News that you want to celebrate. Everything important and victorious is still ahead. And people have energy, as well as fatigue, and fear, and tension. And the desire to be heard, if only in comments under dictation.

Therefore, today's dictation is not just a literacy test. It is the nation's way of saying, "I am here. I think. I know the right way. I have something to say. " And whether it sounds through sarcasm or criticism, it means that we are alive. And most importantly, they are free. Ukrainians can quarrel over language, because they have the right to language. And in my opinion. And by the way, not even on a national scale, but on a global scale. This is not a weakness. This is the luxury of freedom. P. S.