... and "naming" countries in (American) English is one of his jobs. As you can imagine, it's sometimes quite a politicized process having more to do with...
17444
Jiri Jancik
jjancik@...
Oct 1, 2003 6:33 am
The winner is ...are Human Resources. Thank you Melvyn, Michael and everybody else who contributed. It is great to have such an opportunity to consult...
17443
Matej Klimes
mklimes@...
Oct 1, 2003 5:46 am
spise foneticky, ne? ... From: "Petr Adámek" <padamek@...> To: <Czechlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 7:27 AM Subject:...
17442
Petr JarolĂm
ok2med
Oct 1, 2003 5:43 am
Sorry for sending empty emails last night. No idea what went wrong. Hana...
17441
Petr Adámek
spektrum2002
Oct 1, 2003 5:31 am
Kdyz se tak bavime o "Czechia", "Czekia": nevite, kde se to "Cz" v anglictine pro "Czech", "Czechoslovak(ian)" vzalo, kdyz v samotne cestine (na rozdil od...
17440
Matej Klimes
mklimes@...
Oct 1, 2003 3:53 am
, even if ... There's at least one other book - called Pink Tanks and Velvet Hangovers - written by a guy (wouldn't have heard of him) who followed his Czech...
17439
Zemedelec@...
nialjack
Oct 1, 2003 3:51 am
... "the Yemen" (the "right" as opposed to left side of the Arabian Peninsula) is actually the older usage, a direct translation from Arabic (al-Yaman}. ...
17438
Zemedelec@...
nialjack
Oct 1, 2003 3:47 am
... It's funny you should come up with this quotation, because one of the best Czech teachers I had once told me, "Certain things in Czech can't be explained ...
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Darian and Veronika
bezdomovci@...
Oct 1, 2003 3:42 am
... certainly was not living off daddy's money and that I did know Czech and was drawn there by Czech culture in the first place. :-) Michael, No, of course I...
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Michael L. Grant
trans@...
Oct 1, 2003 2:14 am
... You say tomayto, I say tomahto! :-) You're right, of course, but in spite of all the self-indulgent aspects of the expat scene there really was something...
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Michael L. Grant
trans@...
Oct 1, 2003 1:58 am
... But genuine English words (even loan words) don't have a "short e" at the end of a syllable. Michael...
17434
Matej Klimes
mklimes@...
Oct 1, 2003 1:50 am
pretending to have some magical substance called "know-how"; to sell, Actually, it's gotten much worse now that they don't get away with this anymore... apart...
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Matej Klimes
mklimes@...
Oct 1, 2003 1:42 am
... Or Czar, man!...
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Matej Klimes
mklimes@...
Oct 1, 2003 1:41 am
Yeah, Read it like you would if you were an American high school drop out and there you are? M ... From: "kzgafas" <kzgafas@...> To:...
17431
JPKIRCHNER@...
Oct 1, 2003 1:36 am
... I am still preaching to American English education majors about the evils of "backpackers", as those teachers are called in the ESL field. True quotations:...
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Darian and Veronika
bezdomovci@...
Oct 1, 2003 1:07 am
For about two magical years, Prague was just about the coolest place on the planet, at least for a young English speaker with nothing to tie him down. The...
17429
JPKIRCHNER@...
Oct 1, 2003 12:56 am
... It's not just Slavic countries, though. American newspapers and books have "Yemen", but in relatively recent British books I've seen "the Yemen". ... All...
17428
Darian and Veronika
bezdomovci@...
Oct 1, 2003 12:50 am
... In the U.S. Department of State, there's an official geographer, and "naming" countries in (American) English is one of his jobs. As you can imagine, it's...
17427
JPKIRCHNER@...
Oct 1, 2003 12:47 am
... Which syllable does the [t] (or in American English, the flap) in the word "later" belong to? It's ambisyllabic, as they say in the field of metrical ...
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Michael L. Grant
trans@...
Sep 30, 2003 11:44 pm
... For about two magical years, Prague was just about the coolest place on the planet, at least for a young English speaker with nothing to tie him down. The...
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Michael L. Grant
trans@...
Sep 30, 2003 11:36 pm
... Other controversial name changes in recent years include 'The Ukraine' -> 'Ukraine' (somehow the absence or presence of the article in English became...
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Michael L. Grant
trans@...
Sep 30, 2003 11:26 pm
... Oh, I kinda like the 'cz', even if that combination doesn't actually exist in contemporary Czech. How about 'Czoose Czeskia'? You can still be Czairman. ...
17423
Michael L. Grant
trans@...
Sep 30, 2003 11:22 pm
... 'Cesko' is not the same as 'Czechia'. We're talking about two different languages. 'Czechia' does not work as an English word. (Which syllable does the...
17422
Darian Arky
bezdomovci@...
Sep 30, 2003 11:01 pm
"Dying dog" would be a state of pending demise just short of "dead dog," which is something like a "dead horse," though not an animal to be be likewise beaten...
17421
Mgr. Lenka Mandryszov...
iona@...
Sep 30, 2003 7:17 pm
... "s dlouhym dratem" can evoke various associations :-)...
17420
kzgafas
Sep 30, 2003 6:15 pm
Anyway, is there any procedure:-) on international level of assigning English (international) names to countries? Do you know? Kostas...
... scabs ... Republic to ... dysphonic ... Hey, didn't we take Trolling 101 just a few days ago? I suppose for this to be even more fun, we should cross-post...
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JPKIRCHNER@...
Sep 30, 2003 5:20 pm
... I got the Prague part after a couple of years, but I never knew about the gnosis part until you mentioned it. I am still mourning the loss of that paper....
