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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > > -- > Federico G. Benavento
