From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <283f5df10605271849t1a1fb71bi42c278c2714c2c09@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 21:49:27 -0400 From: "LiteStar numnums" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters In-Reply-To: <4478B363.5080407@comtv.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_55857_17550755.1148780967542" References: <20060520004344.GI14448@submarine> <4d11e29c8ac6819bed2e1a1e6d6da764@quanstro.net> <20060527194116.GA1983@augusta.math.psu.edu> <4478B363.5080407@comtv.ru> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 56fec89e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_55857_17550755.1148780967542 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline These marks are in both of the Bulgarian texts I have, as well as the Russian one. They're extremely useful, esp. for Russian (the harder of the two in my op.). On 5/27/06, Victor Nazarov wrote: > > Dan Cross wrote: > > >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. > > > > > Totaly agree with you. I'm a native russian speaker and I saw some books > in russian wich use accents to overcome ambiguity and this usage seems > elegant. But I need to say that accented texts seems very unusual at > first. > -- > Victor Nazarov > > --=20 Nietzsche's first step is to accept what he knows. Atheism for him goes without saying and is "contructive and radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke a kind of crisis and a final decision about the problem of atheism. The world continues on its course at random and there i= s nothing final about it. Thus God is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted something -- and here we recognize the traditional forumlation of the problem of evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity for "a sum total of pain and inconsistency which would debase the entire value of being born." -- Albert Camus, L'Homme r=E9volt=E9 ------=_Part_55857_17550755.1148780967542 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline These marks are in both of the Bulgarian texts I have, as well as the Russi= an one.
They're extremely useful, esp. for Russian (the harder of the tw= o in my op.).

On 5/27/06, Victor Nazarov <vir@comtv.ru>= wrote:
Dan= Cross wrote:

>On Fri May 19 19:45:43 CDT 2006, rvs@sun.com wrote:
>
>
>>  There's no s= uch thing as an accented letter in a Russian language.
>> &nb= sp;That was the exact point of my initial remark.
>>
>>
>
>This is true, at least for Cyrillic= s, but there are stress marks which, to
>beginners in the language, a= re invaluable aids for sounding out the correct
>pronunciation of wor= ds.  Typically, adult Russian isn't written with the
>accent marks, though.  But children's books and textbooks= for foreigners are.
>
>       - = Dan C.
>
>
Totaly agree with you. I'm a native russian speak= er and I saw some books
in russian wich use accents to overcome ambiguit= y and this usage seems
elegant. But I need to say that accented texts seems very unusual at fi= rst.
--
Victor Nazarov




--
Nietzsche's first step is to accept what he knows. Atheism for= him goes without saying and is "contructive and
radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke = a kind of crisis and a final decision about the
problem of atheism. The = world continues on its course at random and there is nothing final about it= . Thus God=20
is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted somethin= g -- and here we recognize the traditional
forumlation of the problem of= evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity for "a sum total of pai= n and inconsistency
which would debase the entire value of being born."
-- Albert = Camus, L'Homme r=E9volt=E9 ------=_Part_55857_17550755.1148780967542--