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Interesting. I know very little about the Czech language, except
that the English words "pistol" and "robot" originally come from
Czech. "Robota" literally meaning servitude.  Czech grammar
seems remarkably similar to Latin. (They are of course,
distantly related languages, but no more than say, Greek and
Spanish.) In Latin there are five conjugations for verbs (though
some people lump the fifth conjugation in with the third).  In
Latin also, there are 14 forms for a noun; seven singular and
seven plural. (Though the locative singular and plural might as
well not exist: with very few exceptions it's the same as the
ablative. So Latin is often taught as having six singular and
six plural forms for nouns.)  And again in Latin, word order
does not matter very much, only serving to add emphasis to
particular parts of the sentence.  In English, word order can
also be flexible. While we tend to think