How do you go about learning Russian stress patterns? Should I just memorize them for each individual noun/verb, or is there a smarter way to do it? Any advice would be very much appreciated!
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Russian: learning stress patterns
How do you go about learning Russian stress patterns? Should I just memorize them for each individual noun/verb, or is there a smarter way to do it? Any advice would be very much appreciated!
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UDDER and WATER
To the memory of Vladislav Illich-Svitych. This is just to bring attention to something very ‘Nostratic’ (far beyond ‘Indo-European’ languages —…
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Three one-hundredths of a second
(Somewhat prompted by watching the Olympics.) Why is that silly redundancy there in "three one-hundredths of a second"? Nobody says "two one-thirds…
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