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Recurring drudgery

 * Category:Unassessed_Czech_Republic_articles

Czech IPA cleanup
DONE!!!

check back here for more in a few months

Stress

 * Czech stress is always on the first syllable (bunch of citations in Czech language to prove it) except:
 * In Lach dialects, which have penultimate stress
 * When the word is preceded by a preposition at least one whole syllable in length (the preposition carries the stress).
 * Arguably in some foreign names (e.g. Andrea_Sestini_Hlaváčková)
 * Whether a vowel is long or short has absolutely no bearing on whether or not it is stressed in Czech.
 * Czech vowels are not reduced in tone when unstressed; thus an Anglophone might hear a vowel like [a], or [ɛ], or actually basically anything except the short [ɪ], and think that means "stressed", because as an unstressed vowel in English it would be centralised.
 * English "stress" is more than just stress - it's stress plus length plus vowel "complexity" all in one. In Czech stress is just stress, i.e. a slightly more accented syllable in terms of pitch and perhaps also volume. This misunderstanding creates plenty of confusion when low-quality pronunciation audio files are involved, as has happened on e.g. Rusalka (opera), Bedřich Smetana, Leoš Janáček, Emmy Destinn and probably more.

Articles that need to be monitored

 * Leo Express and RegioJet (for promo waffle by undisclosed paid editors)
 * Ostrava (the mestsky urad has overwritten this entire article in the past)
 * Tom Henning Øvrebø (Ch*lsea fans will still be vandalising this article in the year 2100)

Articles to create

 * Transitional dialect
 * Western Slovak dialects
 * Central Slovak dialects
 * Bohemian dialects (and merge bits of Czech language into it?)
 * Dialects of Czech
 * Dialects of Slovak
 * Besední dům
 * Czech phonetic alphabet (start from cs:Česká fonetická transkripce)
 * Riegrovy sady
 * Lachia (cs:Lašsko)

Hantec slang
Prolítlo už hafo jařin vod dob, co se dával do pucu Oltecové rathaus. To jednó véšky z Rathausu hodili drát jednomu známýmu borcovi, keré bóchal se šutrama a keré chodil do bódy k jednemu névymakanějšímu a nénabitěšímu mistrovi z Práglu. Sice se mu do Česka moc klapat nechcelo, ale když fotr prolepil ňáké škopek, nebylo co řešit. Hodil na sebe mantl a solidní traťůvky a vodklapal. Ňáké jár krmil lepóchy rozumama toho šéfa z Práglu a když už byl skoro hotové, tak se vo něm domákli véšky ze Štatlu a že pré má naklapat do Brniska a helfnót jim s oltecovým Rathausem.

sajtna nad bahnem

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 * Electronic_dance_music
 * Josef Valčík

Cool RD threads
User:Filelakeshoe/RD

Můj Janáček
"'Characters may be able to hold no communication, may be essentially alone; but they are all of the same species. Death and difference do not answer appeals; otherness is persistent, a fact, as is failure; but a C♯ can become a D♭, and that is what is meant by humanity.'"

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Thoughts on hovorová x obecná čeština

 * Abstract. B. Havránek’s view of Common Czech is useful and it is basically correct in presenting the characteristic properties of the given formation, but it is not exact to call it an interdialect, since it constitutes the basic colloquial form of the Czech language. The view of colloquial Czech as one of the variants of Standard Czech is not realistic.—

Dojč
"Vltava; Moldau. As always, a German name stands like a Gothic shadow behind the Czech – Praha, Prag; Malá Strana, Die Kleinseite; Vltava, Moldau – just as German history looms behind Czech history, occasionally reaching forward to tap it on the shoulder and remind the Czechs that they only occupy a narrow Slavic salient thrust into the heart of the Teutonic world." — Simon Mawer, Prague Spring.

My first edit
My first edit was on 20 November 2006, to London Underground.

IPA and WP:V
"[...] unsourced? Give me a break, IPA is just a written transcription of how words are pronounced. [...] I trust Wikipedia editors to know how words in their native languages are pronounced (except in rare cases of genuine doubt) just like I trust them to be able to distinguish grammatical sentences in their native languages from ungrammatical ones, a task historically very difficult for grammarians to explicate precisely, and which is still beyond the reach of computers. And I trust our resident IPA weenies to be able to check transcriptions of spoken pronunciation into IPA orthography just like I trust our content contributors to spell words correctly (even if there's an occasional error). The last thing I want is Wikipedia's WP:RS goon squads tag bombing IPA transcriptions all over the project.  Next we'll get a tag next to every sentence in every article asking for citations that that the sentence is grammatical, and a tag next to every word asking for a link to an external RS saying that the word is spelled correctly. Stop this, just stop it, IPA is (usually) part of the presentation and not part of the content, and as such it's something that we have to get right on our own." — diff