Ворота́ is an archaic accent, kept here to preserve the rhyme. Modern literary variant is воро́та.
I think you shouldn't use this strange mark...coz foreigners could understand it's normal in russian sentences. But it's not. I'd delete it.
This "strange mark" is called "stress-mark" - quite a normal mark in Russian sentences when there's a need to define an accent more exactly.
Well, maybe this way. Because I didn't like "a'".
It should be ворота́, not воротá, since "á" is not a Cyrillic letter.
Yes, I know. But is it a problem? Looks good. Of course if somebody wants to copy and paste into some translator will be a problem. But, don't they understand where is the problem?
I don't know.
Yes, it is a problem, I think, because stress-mark is a legal symbol in Russian words and "á" is not. Yes, stress-mark may look strange in some browsers and/or in some fonts but it doesn't screw up good spell-checkers, translators, etc. And, of course, it doesn't make foreigners think that non-Cyrillic letters are allowed in Russian words. :-)
Ok. You win ;) Thanks for help!
You're welcome. ;-)
Do tell me, though this mark "may" look strange in "some" browsers, does it actually look fine in most?
I'd we remain practical...
All popular contemporary browsers display the stress-mark correctly provided that the font used on the web-page allows it.
Then, if my browser doesn't, I should assume the font is what makes the problem. If that is so, is it at all practically sensible to stick to the 'correct' stress-mark if it's not displayed correctly anyway?
It's displayed fine for me. How to type the stress mark?
There's no 'correct' or 'incorrect' stress-mark. There are non-Cyrillic letters with acute (single character) and Cyrillic letters combined with acute (two characters combined).
How to type: http://www.slovomania.ru/dnevni...e-stress-sign/
(maybe this help, though I'm not sure)
That much is clear, but where does the problem come from then? Who's got to know?
The problem is in the font Tatoeba uses to display sentences. The only way out (other than making developers change this font) is to prohibit web-pages to use own fonts and set the default fonts in your browser to those that display acute correctly (Arial and Tmes New Roman, for example).
well... the only question then is, is it actually considered a sort of a minuscule problem or does nobody really care? The latter would be wrong.
ps. Arial is ugleh, and Times is even more so! Gah!
This is not the only issue caused by the default Tatoeba fonts, to tell the truth, though I don't remember that this 'acute' problem was ever discussed.
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