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Old 10-22-2005, 11:04 AM   #10
Perry Winkle
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Originally Posted by wolf
Oh, and since nobody asked yet ... What the heck's natural about Czech? They use too many consonants in a row.
Natural languages are what people use for verbal communication, including writing. Artificial languages are things like computer programming languages.

The prototypical example of too many consonants is "Strč prst skrz krk" . Some letters like 'r' are consonants in both English and Czech. However, in Czech they can function, more or less, as vowels.

(I'm going to respond to posts in reverse chronological order and in individual postings to avoid confusing myself as much as possible.)
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