Weekend

[katikat]

Tomorrow, I'm off to visit my dear dinofly in Brno for the weekend. Hopefully, I won't forget the pressies I got for her! :)

And talking about Brno - whenever I say the name of this town, I'm reminded of a certain scene from the TV show Scarecrow and Mrs King. Amanda's son received the Czechoslovakia (remember, it's the 80s there) for a home work in Geography and Amanda's mother, with the map of the Czechoslovakia in hands, went all: "Brrrrrrrrrno, Znnnnnnnojjjjjjjmo... what do the Czech have against vocals?!" XD Brno and Znojmo are real towns here, in the Czech Republic.

Comments

[umegaki.livejournal.com]

How do you pronounce those? *laughing*

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

At least it's not Szczawnica or Bydgoszcz. :P

Have fun!

[katikat.livejournal.com]

B like in balloon, R like in road, N like in Nick and O like in Tom. And now say these letters together like they are pronounced in these words XP

It's the same with Znojmo. The Z like in Zoe, J is like Y in Tokyo.

In Czech, when you see an O, it's O, not OEU or OU like in English. Even when you spell, you pronounce it in the same way like in Tom.

Put it's still easier than in Polish (like keire_ke says in her comment below). They write SZ, we use Š, they use CZ, we Č. The words at least look easier :P

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in this case, thank the gods for Johannes Hus and his new transcription. But you can use the SZ and CZ easier in the WWW addies. So, for example Szczawnica can remain Szczawnica. We would write it as Ščavnica but in a WWW addy, it would be Scavnica X( The same goes for SMS messages - no hooks there :(

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

And then there's Świnoujście and Świętochłowice and a headache. XD

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. That too :P

[matimate.livejournal.com]

I hope that you had fine time:) I am now sort of busy to even live:( However the TV series looks interesting with its perversity to speak czech:)