that would be good to keep in mind. ;-)

- erik

On Fri May 19 20:00:34 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 писа́ть (pisát) means "to write", but пи́сать (písat) means
> "to piss").
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic

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