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What about cheques?
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I lived to Brno for close to two years. Didn't see a single cheque/check while there. I think they're mutually exclusive with Czechs.
The Germans have a word for this: Homophonieflucht (flight of homophones). It means that when you have two words that sound the same, one will eventually be avoided to prevent misunderstandings. One example I have in mind is that the German word Strauß means ostrich and it used to also had the now archaic meaning of "fight" I only heard of in this historical linguistics class. It doesn't mean fight anymore to avoid misunderstandings.
I wasn't aware of the social implications this effect can have tho.
What makes it funny for me it's that those are two different handwritings, as if someone came later and felt it deserved clarification.
Same. They probably got some complaints and/or smartass remarks to necessitate it 😁
Some Czech guy probably took it the wrong way and caused a scene
Balances neither