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The percentage of consonants in this word induces serious amounts of Angstschweiß :)

smcl 5y ago
[laughs in Czech] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk edit: wonder if we have any Welsh speakers here actually
- lproven 5y ago
  "Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč." 7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.
  - rob74 5y ago
    Ok... and here I was thinking that a single word without vowels in Slovenian (Trst, the Slovenian name of the Italian city Trieste) was remarkable. Guess I have to reconsider that...
    - lproven 5y ago
      Yugoslavia was famed for its critical vowel shortage: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-vowels.html https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-v... ... However, speaking as a resident of Czechia, it's worse here. Consider that quote. The word "čtvrť" means _quarter_, as in Latin Quarter or Arab Quarter. It differs from the word "čtvrt" (meaning a quarter of a pizza, say) by the half a diacritic on the final letter T: ť. That diacritic modifies the following vowel — for example the famous shoe company is not Bata (bar-ta) but Baťa (bar-tya). In "čtvrť" the háček modifies the following vowel that isn't there and thus changes the meaning of the word. Czech is czallenging.
      - smcl 5y ago
        Bonus complication while we're talking Czech orthography - "ch" is considered to be one letter. Have been stumped on some křižovky because of that.
  - smcl 5y ago
    Yeah it's a bit of a tongue twister if you have to say this out loud. I'm just continually encountering words I've never heard and either being completely lost or trying to relate them to something I already know. Like in that sentence: - don't know what a "žbrnd" is - "zdrhl" is the l-participle of some verb that I don't know - "hrd" is not something I've seen (is it related to "hrdina" - hero - maybe?) - "Brd" no idea - "srn" might be like "srnec" (kind of deer) but if I heard it in a sentence I wouldn't make that connection - "Krč" - I've seen "Krčma" as a form of pub, but idk if this word refers to that These guesses I made are possibly miles off the mark :D
    - lproven 5y ago
      You're good! Better than me, but then I started old. 46 is a hell of an age to tackle your first Slavic language. There's a breakdown here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/czech/comments/1l3tdw/new_longest_czech_sentence_composed_entirely_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/czech/comments/1l3tdw/new_longest_c... Brd, Smrk and Krč are places. "Zdrhl": escaped; "hrd": proudly; "srn" is a doe, a female deer. Nobody seems to know "žbrnd", but this is admittedly purposely difficult language, showing off how much is possible without vowels.
      - smcl 5y ago
        Ha nice - so I got one (almost) right :D Anyway it's good to know I'm not the only one struggling through. Keep it up!
  - mlang23 5y ago
    Its time to do crowdfunding and gift them a few vowels.
kleiba 5y ago
That's because it's not an actual word, it's more like a cartoonish onomatopoeia.

smcl 5y ago

[laughs in Czech] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk edit: wonder if we have any Welsh speakers here actually

lproven 5y ago
"Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč." 7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.
- rob74 5y ago
  Ok... and here I was thinking that a single word without vowels in Slovenian (Trst, the Slovenian name of the Italian city Trieste) was remarkable. Guess I have to reconsider that...
  - lproven 5y ago
    Yugoslavia was famed for its critical vowel shortage: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-vowels.html https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-v... ... However, speaking as a resident of Czechia, it's worse here. Consider that quote. The word "čtvrť" means _quarter_, as in Latin Quarter or Arab Quarter. It differs from the word "čtvrt" (meaning a quarter of a pizza, say) by the half a diacritic on the final letter T: ť. That diacritic modifies the following vowel — for example the famous shoe company is not Bata (bar-ta) but Baťa (bar-tya). In "čtvrť" the háček modifies the following vowel that isn't there and thus changes the meaning of the word. Czech is czallenging.
    - smcl 5y ago
      Bonus complication while we're talking Czech orthography - "ch" is considered to be one letter. Have been stumped on some křižovky because of that.
- smcl 5y ago
  Yeah it's a bit of a tongue twister if you have to say this out loud. I'm just continually encountering words I've never heard and either being completely lost or trying to relate them to something I already know. Like in that sentence: - don't know what a "žbrnd" is - "zdrhl" is the l-participle of some verb that I don't know - "hrd" is not something I've seen (is it related to "hrdina" - hero - maybe?) - "Brd" no idea - "srn" might be like "srnec" (kind of deer) but if I heard it in a sentence I wouldn't make that connection - "Krč" - I've seen "Krčma" as a form of pub, but idk if this word refers to that These guesses I made are possibly miles off the mark :D
  - lproven 5y ago
    You're good! Better than me, but then I started old. 46 is a hell of an age to tackle your first Slavic language. There's a breakdown here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/czech/comments/1l3tdw/new_longest_czech_sentence_composed_entirely_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/czech/comments/1l3tdw/new_longest_c... Brd, Smrk and Krč are places. "Zdrhl": escaped; "hrd": proudly; "srn" is a doe, a female deer. Nobody seems to know "žbrnd", but this is admittedly purposely difficult language, showing off how much is possible without vowels.
    - smcl 5y ago
      Ha nice - so I got one (almost) right :D Anyway it's good to know I'm not the only one struggling through. Keep it up!
- mlang23 5y ago
  Its time to do crowdfunding and gift them a few vowels.

kleiba 5y ago

That's because it's not an actual word, it's more like a cartoonish onomatopoeia.