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Yay, good jorb alexei. Unstressed E is like the e in Egg. Surely you wouldnt say its acceptable to replace E with I and say its still the same sound!

еко in далеко Is like the english "Eco", and sounds nothing like "Ic(k)o".

Its like saying that Ш and Щ are the same sound, they clearly are not.

I dunno man.

Далеко sounds a lot more like Daleko than daliko to me.

How hard is it really? Stressed E is Ye, unstressed e, is e.
If your mental capacity is so low that you have to start replacing e with И then you probably dont have enough brain matter to continue...