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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

SubArcticTundra is Czech though, and we use “s” for “with”. It’s a bit of a homonym but most people don’t struggle with s/z prepositions, the s-/z- prefixes are more problematic: you’ll see lots of people write “shlédnout” (look down) in place of “zhlédnout” (view, as in video or movie) even though “zhlédnutí” (views) is right there in YouTube’s UI.

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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You are right but the meme was of 2v4u and in polish

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Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I see. I assume the confusion comes from the z being softened to a voiceless fricative depending on the surrounding sounds?

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- ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Correct, but the hardening of written “s” into a spoken “z” is about equally common. Then, some words have the “vz-” prefix, which some mix up with “s-” or “z-” too, and even “zvláštní” (means “strange” and has no prefix) gets misread as “vzláštní” extremely often.
  
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  - Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Interesting. Thanks for the insight. I’m a bit of a hobby linguist.
    
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    ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Me too. I wonder if the hardening of “s” is something we got from the Germans, although we don’t have that other substitution they do (cukr-Zucker).
    
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