Philologists have estimated the likelihood of the emergence in the language of a new union “what”

Norms of the Russian literary language do not allow the use of the construction of “that” instead of the union “that”, told RBC in the press service of the portal “Gramota.ru”.

“The union “that” appeared not in the Russian literary language, but in the speech of some people, mostly young,” the newspaper said. However, the use of this design is considered a mistake, as the form “lays” or stress “ring”.

Norms of the Russian literary language do not allow such use. And if a student writes this in an essay or in an exam, they will lower their grade. Despite the spread of this construction in speech, to give a forecast for the future we can not, — said there, but noted that in the coming years, the chances to become part of the norm “that” is not.

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Head of the Department of Stylistics of the Russian Language of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University Associate Professor Vladimir Slavkin explained to RBC that the “that” particle in a complex sentence plays a constructive role, fixing attention on the object, for example: “He said what he thought.”.

“It is a pronoun-relative word. And even if in another context it can be omitted ("We talked about going to St. Petersburg" = "We said that we would go to St. Petersburg), still it remains an important highlighting element," Slavkin explained.

And in sentences such as “He said what will come tomorrow,” the “that” particle is nonfunctional and not the norm.

“In general, the system of subordinate unions in the Russian language is diverse (one causal unions at least 30), so there is no need to create new ones,” the philologist said.