Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

Christian Thalmann wrote:

>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@U...> wrote:
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>>Alexander Savenkov scripsit:
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>>>Here's the system which is used daily in Russia:
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>>>a b v g d e yo zh z i y k l m n o p r s t u f kh ts ch sh sch ' y
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>' e yu ya
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>It feels strange to use y to mark the palatalizing vowels
>ya yo yu, the diphthongizing i-breve and the non-palatalizing
>bI.  It would make more sense IMHO to write ja jo ju and
>-i or maybe -j for i-breve.
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>Then again, I don't know Russian.
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That would be because you're German-speaking.  Naturally it would make
more sense to use |j| for you.  Whereas us English speakers would rather
use |y|.  Though, having said that, my instinct is always to use |j|
when English would use |y|, even though I am English.   Still, I'm weird.

>-- Christian Thalmann
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