Re: OT: Apologies (was Re: OT: NATLANG: Romanian orthography question)

Stephen Mulraney scripsit:

> And not only that, but there are prepositions such as _v_,
> _s_ and even _k_ in Russian (Yes, Yitzik, I know you know!),
> which used to be written followed by a hard sign, though the
> hard sign wasn't pronounced.
It's estimated that 3% of all pre-reform Russian text consisted
of redundant final hard signs, and in Bulgarian the figure is
more like 12%.

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                John Cowan <jcowan@...>

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