Talk:Czech orthography

message: Just a comment on the use of the English phrase "in case".  I know in Czech, v případě can be used to mean, essentially, "if".  But, it cannot be translated directly in English, as "in case" is used like this: I will take an umbrella, in case it rains.  Meaning, whether it rains or not, I will have it, to prepare for the possibility of rain.  Perhaps "pro jistotu" nebo "pro případ" in Czech. -Sladek 18:33, 4. 4. 2007 
:Would you suggest some better formulation for: "A comma is never placed before a (and), i (as well as), ani (nor) and nebo (or) IN CASES they connect parts of sentences or clauses in copulative conjunctions"? I think it is not the same meaning as in your example. Thanks for your help. --Pajast 13:03, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "in case" 

message: Why is this section here?  Grammar is not orthography.  —Tamfang 02:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, grammar is not orthography. But this rule influences the orthography. There is no difference between -li and -ly in pronunciation. The difference exists in the orthography only. (And the standard neuter ending -la is uncommon in most dialects; plural endings of participles in general are often unified in common speech.) And although this rule is not complicated in my opinion, many native Czech speakers are not familiar with it and make mistakes. This is why you can find this topic in every Czech orthographical textbook or handbook. I am sure it belongs here too. --Pajast 07:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agreement between the subject and the predicate 

message: Long í and ý are different in most dialects of Bohemia. í is pronounced [i:], ý  ý [ɛj] or maybe [ɛɪ]. (in most words)--SuperElephant 06:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is about standard Czech, not dialects. They have no codified orhography. --Pajast 12:50, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Someone has added this note on the pronuciation. It is a fact. I cannot see any reason to remove it. This does not mean that Ostrava dialect have a codified orthography. 
That part of this article gives an explantion why two graphemes for one phoneme are used. The note on Ostrava pronunciation illustrates the reasons. The fact that /ý/ changed into /ej/ in common Czech is not related to the standard Czech orthography. --Pajast 14:57, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not true 

message: According to the Czech version of the page the "ch" letter counts as a letter in the alphabet.
With the "ch" letter the Czech alphabet contains 42 characters.
The "ch" letter is also important when sorting strings, according to Czech standard.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.24.152.82 (talk) 14:10, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "ch" letter 

message: @ I have twice removed something about the letter <x> being replaced by <ks> when words become naturalised, because it's not entirely true. Off the top of my head: sex, sexualita, sexuální; saxofon; maxi, maximální, maximalizovat; Maximilián; oxid, oxidovat... all have the letter X despite being naturalised (some even inflected with Czech morphology). This isn't the same as with <w>, which doesn't stick around in Czech words at all. Polish does this with <x> (oksydować, maksymalny), but Czech doesn't seem to at least not as much.
I suggest finding some sources that discuss this in more depth if you want to re-add it. – filelakeshoe (t / c)  20:22, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  X 

message: These digraphs are rarely considered as digraphs in Czech. It's because they aren't very common in Czech and their pronunciation is very similar to pronunciation "d-ž" resp. "d-z" (and in Czech is common that a letter is read as another simmilar letter). There are very few words with them in Czech and they are mostly loanwords ("džbán" is the only exception I can remember, "dz" isn't in Czech at all, or it should be pronounced "d-z" - in cases where prefix ends "d-" and root begins "-z", for example "podzim").
37.48.0.55 (talk) 12:15, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digraphs dž, dz