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 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.
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