Re:Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux
by rob74 on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:14AM
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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 to reconsider that...
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Re:Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux
by lproven on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:20AM
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Yugoslavia was famed for its critical vowel shortage:
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.