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.
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.
Translation: “bread wif [sic] cement”
It’s polish so the with is correct.
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.
I see. I assume the confusion comes from the z being softened to a voiceless fricative depending on the surrounding sounds?
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.
Interesting. Thanks for the insight. I’m a bit of a hobby linguist.
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).