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Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 15:41:16 -0400
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
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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.