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

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, November 28, 2003, 1:49
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%. -- Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. --Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God" John Cowan <jcowan@...>

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