Overview
People in the whole world like to play with language and
this is the case especially in those societies which devote
much care to language and show a lot of interest in it.
Language has many functions: in addition to the basic one --
as a means of communication -- language can also be a source
of joy. And this joyful aspect of language manifests itself
also in Czech: as in every language one can encounter lots
of cross-word puzzles, language quizes, conundrums, riddles
and language games in Czech. What is very interesting about
various funny language phenomena is their language-specific
character, for only in a very few cases can language games be
transferred from one language to another. Thus,
there is a great variety of language games in the languages
of the world and Czech is by no means an exception in this
respect. Let us show several interesting types of ludicrous
language and word games and phenomena in Czech.
Renata Blatná, Vladimír Petkevič, ©2001
