new Russian orthography?

Yoshimasa Tsuji yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp
Wed Jan 13 04:02:21 UTC 1999


Dear experts,
I often come across unnatural Russian spelling these days,
for example <postindustrial'nyj>. I would have thought
that had to be either <post"industrial'nyj> or
<postyndustrial'nyj> (where " stands for a hard sign) because
<pred+idushchij> was either <pred"idushchij> or <predydushchij>.

Or do Russians pronounce t of <post> softly in that case?

It seems to me that Russians long ceased to use hard signs (i.e.,
<predydushchij> only) and do not like to alter <i> to <y> when the
stem in question is foreign.

Looking forward to your comments.

Thanks,
Tsuji



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