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Re:Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux by rob74 on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:14AM (#28511061)
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...
Re:Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux by lproven on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:20AM (#28511117)
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.

Re:Hrmpf rescue system, built on Void Linux by smcl on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:45AM (#28511400)
Bonus complication while we're talking Czech orthography - "ch" is considered to be one letter. Have been stumped on some křižovky because of that.