Anagrams
If you have a word and some of the letters can change places
yielding another existing word you arrive at the so-called
anagrams. There are plenty of them in Czech. The procedure
of reshuffling letters in a word or words in a sentence was
once considered to reveal some important concealed
information or message about a man or an object denoted by
the original word or sentence. All the more so, if the
anagram bears some real resemblance with its original. As an
instance, you can play with your own Christian name and/or
surname as did one of the most famous Czech writers Karel
Čapek who was a genuine master in the realm of language. Try
to be as ingenious as he was when he created the following
anagram out of his own first name and surname:
Karel Čapek -> KakaČ perel
When he made this anagram public
some praised him for his ingeniousness and inventiveness and
some reproached him with his being too boastful!
Renata Blatná, Vladimír Petkevič, ©2001
