Re: [9fans] combining characters

["Federico Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

I'm not a native english speaker but phonetics is phonetics,
not a language, an alphabet.

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On 5/19/06, Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com> 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 писа?ть (pis?t) means "to write", but пи?сать (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.
>


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Federico G. Benavento