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From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
Subject: combining characters
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:24:28 -0700

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:59:37PM -0300, Federico Benavento wrote:
> I'm not a native english speaker but phonetics is phonetics,
> not a language, an alphabet.
> 
> http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/images/ipachart.gif

  Fascinating... Thanks for the link!

Thanks,
Roman.

> 
> 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 ÐÉÓÁ?ÔØ (pis?t) means "to write", but ÐÉ?ÓÁÔØ (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.
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Federico G. Benavento