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BK

Beletrie

Praha : Práh Publishers, 1999

320 stran ; 21 cm

ISBN 80-7252-008-3 (brožováno)

Obsahuje rejstříky

001462660

Table of Contents // Preface and Acknowledgments / 15 In the Bag /17 // When “No” Means “Yes” / 18 Why Foreigners Spell Czech Better than Czechs / 19 A Pea Pod full of Mystery Meanings / 20 What’s the Buzz? / 21 // Easier Said than Written: Literary Czech rarely makes it onto // the streets / 22 // Spelling out Gregor Samsa’s Secrets / 24 Imported Words Have Sex Appeal / 25 Chew on This / 26 Little Houses for Big Dreams / 27 Fabulous and Fantastic f Words / 28 A Classic Uncovered / 29 Learning to Love in Czech /30 Grammar Days /31 A Fish Dinner in Bohemia / 32 Beginning at the End / 33 -dk Talk / 34 // Wanted Dead or Alive: Czech Grammar / 35 Duo Helps the Needy / 36 Czechs by the Hundreds /37 A Big to Do over Delat /39 Of Mosquitoes and Men: Gender in Czech / 40 A Small, Good Thing /41 To Want It All / 42 Black Is Never out of Fashion / 43 Machine-age Grammar / 44 Whipping Up a Frenzy / 45 Me and My Gal / 46 Are You Still with Us? / 47 Czech Letter Writing Can Be a Formal Exercise / 48 // 7 // Going, Going... / 49 Putting a Flea in Translator’s Ears /50 Gender-neutral Counting /51 Verb Play / 52 The Boom Expands /53 Politesse in Approaches / 54 Panorama /55 Where Does It Hurt? /56 A Guide for the Samouk /57 Speaking in Tongues /58 All at Sea in the Czech Lands /59 Hus Laid Down the Law That Czech Spelling Still Follows / 60 // For the Fun of It / 61 Kiss and Tell / 62 Comrades in Celebration / 63 Second Is Best / 64 Pigs from Cradle to Grave / 65 Gender Benders

/ 66 // A Little Gerund Is a Dangerous Thing / 67 Whose Whose? / 68 Picturing the Unthinkable / 69 Ways and Means /70 Moveable Feasts /71 -ovi, -ovy, “oy vay!” /72 The Payoff Is the Payback /73 Ticket to Ride / 74 Stress Test / 75 Changes of Address /76 On the Rocks or the Street / 77 Everyday Sure Shots /78 Small Is Beautiful / 79 With Whom You What? / 80 The Hair Language /81 Educate Yourself in the Czech Style /82 Aliens Among Us / 84 Experience / 85 Power Talk /86 // Is This Expression Worth It? / 87 // 8 // Czech Grammar Case by Case /88 Say it Vivace /90 // Pulling Your Weight in Words I 91 Life Is Sweet—Cradle to Grave /92 Language Engineering / 93 Gender Gap / 94 // Czech Symbol More than His Famous Image / 95 Counting Men /96 Cross-dressing for Success / 97 One-stop Shopping / 98 Diverging Branches of Slavic Family Tree / 99 Stopping by / 100 Dog and Pony Show /101 Proving the Rules /102 Pick a Basket of Mushrooms /103 Happy Endings /104 // A Pregnant Pause Preserves Your Dignity / 105 Neither a Borrower ... / 106 Summer or Winter, It’s Always Czech Time / 107 Love on Parade /108 ABC to YZŽ / 109 Three Words to Rely on / 110 But, Soft! / Ill Would You, Could You? /112 Try It Twice /113 Hot Dates /114 Let It or Leave It / 115 Taking Titles to the nth Degree /116 A Couple of Choice Idioms /117 The Voiceless One Speaks /118 A Room of One’s Own /119 Not Every Bird Flies /120 A Kiss Is Just a Kiss / 121 Women’s Day / 122 Top 20 Czech Verbs of the Year / 123 Outsider

Language /125 These Mistakes Are Too Hot to Handle / 126 Vive la Différence! /127 // 9 // Putting Your Foot in It, Czech Style / 128 Ahoj, Allegorical Metal Monster! / 129 Thought Processes /130 Za: A Proper Preposition /131 Eternal Palaverer /132 333 More Times, With Feeling / 133 Bringing It All Back Home /134 Been Having Lots of Problems / 135 If You Must Push, Push Politely /136 Demonstrably Independent /137 Goodness Gracious! / 138 This Expression is Not One to Get Behind / 139 Learning Czech’s Not Cheap, My Dear /141 Spreading the Words / 142 Idiom Makes Its Point / 143 Going Crazy with Czech Motion Verbs /144 Forging the Chain /146 Making up for Lack of “The” /147 The Tale of a Clock and Its Times / 148 Powerful Prefixes /149 Sounds Like... / 150 // Humility Essential for Czech Success /151 Garmon—Bystro! /152 Yes, You Can Read Czech /153 Not All Theresa’s Fruits were Bitter / 154 A Sweep of Good Luck / 155 What’s in a Name? Gamma! /156 Can You Say, “How Much?” / 157 Professional Sex /158 Follow the Prefixes /159 We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This! /160 Catch That c! / 161 Down the Snow /162 // Burning, Steaming, Hopping Mad, Czech-Style / 163 Hook It Up / 164 // A New Year’s Card with Heart /165 Enough Is Not Enough /166 A Fine Mess /167 // 10 // Linguistic Narcissism /168 Can You Say Rendez-vous? / 169 Putting Suffixes on the Map /170 Scent of Freshly Brewed Words /171 Go to the Post Office and Stamp Your Feet / 172 Show Your Cards /174 A Preposition

for All Reasons /175 What’s in -a Names? / 176 Particularly Mixed Up / 177 Language Takes a Long and Winding Road /178 Don’t Just Stand There / 179 Variable Conditions /180 The Nose Knows /181 Wishing You a Good End /182 A Nation Learns its Dance Steps /183 Come and Go with Me /184 The Immortal G. L Švejk /185 Prefixes Sharpen Verbs’ Point /186 Seasonal Specialties /187 Names to Know Down on the Farm /188 Czechoslovak Combines Best of Both Tongues /189 Adverbs Money Just Can’t Buy / 190 Telling Aspects /191 Bothered to Death /192 // Use Pet Names with Affection—and Caution / 193 A Matter of Taste /195 Getting It / 196 // Getting Hooked on the Soft n ! 197 Living Tableaux /198 A Word for an Imposing Idea / 199 Old Names Live on / 201 Colors Travel, No Passports Needed / 202 Telling Title / 203 Czech? ŕ la Carte / 204 High-tech Talk / 206 Up-to-date Dating / 207 Czech Prevails over Foreign Pressures / 208 Day of Reckoning for Czech Kids / 209 // 11 // Abeceda Club’s Size Is Variable /210 Counting: As Easy as 1-2-3 /211 Stressing the Negative /212 Words for What It’s Doing out There /213 No Retirement for Grandmas /214 The Long and Abbreviated of Czech /215 The Better Sort of Pronoun /216 Meet Czech Head-On / 217 Formalities of Comings and Goings /218 Your First Czech Lesson /219 A Slav(e) to the Word / 220 Verbal Attraction /221 Long Live Czech Literature! / 222 The Most Valuable Czech Words / 223 To Know it All / 224 And Yet Another Year Slips by / 225 Swallow those

Vowels / 226 Join the Hat Parade! (If you dare) / 227 A Rich Fruit from Deep Linguistic Soil / 229 Sexist Slang Not Related to Gender /230 The Day of Carp and the Baby Jesus /231 Controversial Topics Need Better Translations / 232 History through Adjectives / 233 The Long and Short of Czech / 234 Be Flexible and That’s an Order! / 235 Marrying Words Lag behind Changing Society /237 The Language’s Unbearable Difficulty of Definition /238 // Carpe Diem! / 240 // When Women Ruled in Prague 5/241 Speak the Lingo / 242 Try Not To Throw Tantum Tantrums / 243 Accentuate the Negative / 245 Whens and Ifs / 246 ’Tis the Season for Etymology / 247 Mastering Czech More Than a Formality / 248 Saying a Lot with a Little / 249 Fishing for the Meaning of Christmas /250 Keep Hat on Head /251 // 12 // Naming Names /252 How to Greet when You Greet /253 A Pre-’89 Comrade Might Prefer ’Count’ These Days / 254 Say ’aaah’ in Czech / 255 Czech Proverbs That Say It All /256 On the Ball and in the Groove /258 Put It There /259 // The Czech Language Is Both Perfect and Imperfect / 260 An Eyeful of Plurals /261 Grammar + Grammar = Success / 262 A Žumpa by Any Other Name... / 263 Check your Czech Dictionary / 265 A Mapa to Common Roots ! 266 Tracing Names’ Histories / 267 Adverbs: Up, Up, and Away / 268 Verb Becomes Tool for Grading Society / 269 White Nights / 270 Czech Verbs: Fun and Easy /271 Travelers’ Way /272 Goodbye or See Ya? / 273 Title Index / 275 // 13