eleven consonants in a row

[threeplusfire]

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

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[water-damage.livejournal.com]

man

[sleepwithlovely.livejournal.com]

Does that verb really need to be had?

What is the something of which you're trying to take the quarter from? If that makes sense...

Yep, that's it. I'm sticking with Russian...then again, I remember the second day of my first section of Russian Dr. Collopy wrote something like "poshlu" up on the board and we were all petrified because we couldn't make sense between the ш, л, and the и. Especially in cursive.

Course, now it's all second-nature. But yah...no Czech for me. You've successfully scared me away!!

xoxo

[sykii.livejournal.com]

That fascinates me for the same reason German does- I want to learn a language that specific.

[kart.livejournal.com]

That is cool. The word seems more managable if you break it up-- od / ctvrt / vrstvit. I don't know any Czech, but it looks slightly Russian-ish enough to see how it could have something to do with taking away one quarter of something. Ctvrt is real close to четверть.

I wonder if 11 consonants in a row is the all time champion. It'd be cool if Czech were the winner among all languages for something weird like that. The next most consonants together would probably be Georgian.

The word Georgian word gvbrdgvnis means "he tears us apart". I wonder if livejournal will let me paste it in Georgian... გვბრდგვნის