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Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 18:38:22 -0700
From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 06:59:31PM -0600, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
> >  "There are no accents in Russian language" (*)
>=20
> wikipedia disagrees:
>=20
> Acute accents are also used in Slavic language dictionaries and
> textbooks to indicate lexical stress, placed over the vowel of the
> stressed syllable. This can also serve to disambiguate meaning (e.g.,
> in Russian =D0=C9=D3=C1?=D4=D8 (pis?t) means "to write", but =D0=C9?=D3=
=C1=D4=D8 (p?sat) means
> "to piss").

  I don't think that wording is accurate. It gets close to the point
  though: "dictionaries and textbooks" are exactly the only place
  you might find these. But before I go on, I would like to ask
  our native English speakers: do you guys consider transcriptions
  used in the dictionaries a part of English language, a part of
  separate language or what ?

Thanks,
Roman.