From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:24:28 -0700 From: Roman Shaposhnick To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters Message-ID: <20060525002428.GH19044@submarine> References: <20060520001201.GF14448@submarine> <20060520004344.GI14448@submarine> <14ec7b180605191759w1554e3a0v736027d466916952@mail.gmail.com> <20060520013822.GM14448@submarine> <32d987d50605191859m55c65219i1dfccca09805fead@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <32d987d50605191859m55c65219i1dfccca09805fead@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 54693f9c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:59:37PM -0300, Federico Benavento wrote: > I'm not a native english speaker but phonetics is phonetics, > not a language, an alphabet. >=20 > http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/images/ipachart.gif Fascinating... Thanks for the link! Thanks, Roman. >=20 > On 5/19/06, Roman Shaposhnick wrote: > >On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 06:59:31PM -0600, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > >> > "There are no accents in Russian language" (*) > >> > >> wikipedia disagrees: > >> > >> 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. > > >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Federico G. Benavento