Hello, 2004-07-13T13:57:37+03:00 Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the original Russian, the two dots would appear over the Cyrillic e > only in rather specialised circumstances or in texts marked up > beginners. Correct. Some people however would like to change that (i.e. so that the dots are no longer optional). > For in Russian these dots are considered highly optional, and > e with dots (pronounced o or yo - a spelling rule prescribes this > instead of o after certain letters when stressed) is not a separate > letter of the alphabet (contrast i kratkoe, Cyrillic i with breve, which > is a fully separate letter from i). That’s wrong, Peter. The letter «ё» is a separate letter. Please don’t spread your wrong assumptions in the list. > And indeed the dotless e is > reflected in the commonest English transcription, Khrushchev (and > similarly Gorbachev etc). Regards, Alexander -- Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/
