Touches to the Speech Portrait of a Modern Student (As Exemplified in Observations of the Speech of NUST “MISIS” Students)

The article is devoted to the problem of mastering language norms by modern young people and presents the results of a survey of NUST “MISIS” students, the purpose of which was to identify how correctly they use the most “dangerous” expressions and phrases from the point of view of compliance with norms (declension of geographical names in Russian letters -o and -e, distinction of the words “est’ ” and “kushat’ ”, formation of the genitive case form of nouns, mixing of paronyms, use of etiquette formulas “Mozhno, pozhaluista” and “Kto posledniy?”, etc.).