Re: Yers (was Re: Apologies)

>Sure.  I'm not proposing that CS (which is really a mutant form of
>Old Bulgarian) get a spelling reform at this late date, simply that the
>spelling reforms that led to modern Russian spelling, both Peter's and
>Lenin's, made a great deal of sense.  (Except that Peter should have
>standardized on the acute accent for the stress instead of dropping
>all accents whatsoever, and should have done something about "o".)
I know.  It (personally) drives me nuts that I can't tell where to place
the stress in a Russian word.  But I guess you could say the same thing for
English, since we also don't mark stress.  It's much nicer to read a Church
Slavonic text where I can always know where to put the stress.  (OTOH, I
think that Modern Church Slavonic takes the stress marking one step too far
by placing stress markings over words of only one syllable.  That's a bit
redudndant for my tastes, so I don't do that with Tovlaugadois - which was
supposed to contain a stress mark, but Eudora is acting up on me again, and
I can't access the extended Latin range for some mysterious reason.  Aargh.)

Isidora