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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
by 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 agoYugoslavia 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 agoBonus complication while we're talking Czech orthography - "ch" is considered to be one letter. Have been stumped on some křižovky because of that.