The importance of correct stress in Russian (pisAl).

[Richard Robin]

Happy Labor Day, Seelangovtsy,

For those teachers who need "authentic" evidence of the importance of correct
stress, I offer this bit from the Russian newsgroup relcom.music. (All the
names are changed and their e-mail addresses and urls deleted.)

The background: Newsgroup newbie Qu has subscribed to a whole bunch of Russian
relcom usenet groups and is confused as to how they work. Qu writes:
Ответьте кто-нибудь, первый раз здесь и ничего не понимаю.

Br, also inexperienced with usenet groups, answers with multiple posts to all
these groups:
Отвечаю
я здесь тоже в первый раз или во второй и меня здесь просто-таки не любят
особенно некоторые.....

Finally, one of the big honchos on one of the groups:
Так ты в какую из них писАл?
--
Richard Robin - http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~rrobin
German and Slavic Dept.
The George Washington University
WASHINGTON, DC 20052
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Chitayu po-russki v lyuboi kodirovke.