22 August 2013

A stupid wolf, some fog, a neighborhood, and a national record

For those of you who have harbored a burning desire to write the longest sentence without a single vowel in Czech history, you now have a role model. His name is Milan Hanak, a former architect who has crafted a truly historic and utterly nonsensical sentence with 52 consonant sounds and zero vowel sounds.

Photo courtesy of the Agentura Dobry Den (Good Day Agency).
The Special Assistant to the Blogger translates the sentence as follows: "The stupid wolf who is full of non-tasty drinks proudly escaped from the fog of Brdi through the hill Smrk into the neighborhood Krc, which is full of does [female deer]."
  • Brdi is the name of highlands in Central Bohemia southwest of Prague. The use of "Brd" is correct here because noun forms change depending on how they're used in a sentence. 
  • Smrk, in this usage, is the name of a hill; as a common noun, it's a spruce tree. 
  • And Krc is a neighborhood in Prague 4.
The Agentura Dobry Den is an agency for keeping records in the Czech Republic. Up next, according to its website: The good people of Zlin will try to establish a record for most pancakes thrown into the air. My only regret in typing that last sentence was the use of vowels.

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