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Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:51:03 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
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that would be good to keep in mind. ;-)

- erik

On Fri May 19 20:00:34 CDT 2006, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote:
> >   "There are no accents in Russian language" (*)
>=20
> wikipedia disagrees:
>=20
> 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 =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=CC=81=D1=82=D1=8C (pis=C3=A1t) mean=
s "to write", but =D0=BF=D0=B8=CC=81=D1=81=D0=B0=D1=82=D1=8C (p=C3=ADsat)=
 means
> "to piss").
>=20
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic