From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4478B363.5080407@comtv.ru> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 00:15:31 +0400 From: Victor Nazarov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters References: <20060520004344.GI14448@submarine> <4d11e29c8ac6819bed2e1a1e6d6da764@quanstro.net> <20060527194116.GA1983@augusta.math.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060527194116.GA1983@augusta.math.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 56429232-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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