From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 15:41:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060527194116.GA1983@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d11e29c8ac6819bed2e1a1e6d6da764@quanstro.net>
On Fri May 19 19:45:43 CDT 2006, rvs@sun.com wrote:
> There's no such thing as an accented letter in a Russian language.
> That was the exact point of my initial remark.
This is true, at least for Cyrillics, but there are stress marks which, to
beginners in the language, are invaluable aids for sounding out the correct
pronunciation of words. Typically, adult Russian isn't written with the
accent marks, though. But children's books and textbooks for foreigners are.
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-27 19:41 UTC|newest]
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2006-05-19 14:36 rog
2006-05-19 15:11 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 16:16 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 21:03 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-19 21:26 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-19 21:21 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 21:45 ` jmk
2006-05-19 21:57 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-05-19 21:51 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:04 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-05-19 22:16 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:34 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-19 22:35 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 23:40 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-19 23:43 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 0:12 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 0:13 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 0:43 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 0:44 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 4:13 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-21 18:10 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-21 18:12 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-25 0:23 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-27 19:41 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2006-05-27 20:15 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-05-28 1:49 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-05-20 0:59 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-20 0:51 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 1:43 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 1:38 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 1:59 ` Federico Benavento
2006-05-25 0:24 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 3:59 ` geoff
2006-05-20 10:56 ` Lucio De Re
2006-05-20 11:04 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-20 0:18 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-21 18:11 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-19 22:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-19 22:36 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 23:28 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-19 22:54 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-19 22:50 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 1:05 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-05-21 17:52 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-22 4:04 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-19 22:29 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-19 22:22 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:45 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-22 22:55 erik quanstrom
2006-05-23 4:58 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-23 10:07 erik quanstrom
2006-05-23 14:24 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-05-23 17:07 ` plan9
2006-05-23 17:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-05-23 18:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-05-23 20:09 ` Harri Haataja
2006-05-25 0:31 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-25 2:34 ` Andy Newman
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