NATLANG: Pre-reformed Russian (was Re: Apologies)

Stephen Mulraney wrote:

> hard sign wasn't pronounced. It actually looks really weird
> looking at prerevolutionary (or emigre) Russian with all
> those excess hard signs (not to mention the strange vowels).
> (for an example I was going to point out the PDF of <Въ
> Защиту Русскаго Языка> _V Zashchitu Russkavo Jazyka_ on
> http://rech.ru , but it seems to be offline right now so
> I can't find the exact URL)
Unfortunately, I couldn't find this particular link, but there are certain
interesting specimens of pre-reformed Russian spelling at such site as
http://www.ostrov.ca/kgrot/biblio.htm

Reminder: listserv.brown.edu is not Unicode-friendly, esp. as concerns
Cyrillics.

-- Yitzik

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