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Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours agoI see. I assume the confusion comes from the z being softened to a voiceless fricative depending on the surrounding sounds?
Comment on No low ballers, I know what I have
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours agoI see. I assume the confusion comes from the z being softened to a voiceless fricative depending on the surrounding sounds?
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.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Interesting. Thanks for the insight. I’m a bit of a hobby linguist.
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).