threeplusfire: (short david bowie)
three ([personal profile] threeplusfire) wrote2002-09-20 11:52 pm

eleven consonants in a row

odctvrtvrstvit
That's a Czech verb, meaning "to remove a quarter of something."
No, I'm not really sure I can pronounce that either.

Re:

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2002-09-21 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Something I love about Russian and Czech is just how context driven they are, how words will shift meanings depending on other words around them. It's beautiful, beautiful stuff.

[identity profile] sykii.livejournal.com 2002-09-21 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I look forward to studying it all, immensely. I feel like Latin, more familiar to me, will help me prepare to assimilate more difficult languages. It really is a complete context shift, even for fairly closely related tongues.