{"id":5464,"date":"2011-07-08T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2011-07-08T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T10:00:48","slug":"fusovani%e2%80%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=5464","title":{"rendered":"Fu\u0161ov\u00e1n\u00ed\u200f"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fu\u0161ov\u00e1n\u00ed\u200f<\/strong> is a Czech word I discovered recently that appealed to me and that means “tinker, dabbling”. The related verb, fu\u0161ovat<\/strong> means “to potter, to tinker at, to botch, to dabble, to mess about, to tinker”. Other related words include:<\/p>\n

– fu\u0161er – quack, tinker, blunderer, boggler, botcher, bungler, cobbler, dabbler
\n– fu\u0161ersk\u00e1 pr\u00e1ce – botch
\n– fu\u0161ersky – shoddily
\n– fu\u0161ersk\u00fd – empirical, patch work
\n– fu\u0161ersky pracovat – tamper
\n– fu\u0161erstv\u00ed – botch, fudge, bungle
\n– fu\u0161e\u0159ina – patch work, tinker, botch
\n– fu\u0161ka – elbow-grease
\n– fu\u0161ka – job, chore, elbow-grease, hard work (also – d\u0159ina)<\/p>\n

Sources: slovnik.cz<\/a>, Wiktionary<\/a><\/p>\n

These words could be used to describe the way I teach myself languages – I tend to do this is quite a haphazard way without any particular plan, and just follow my interests, and never know quite where I’ll end up. I keep thinking that perhaps I should try to learn things in a more structured way, but somehow rarely put such thoughts into practise. Languages are a hobby and passion for me. I dabble with them for fun.<\/p>\n

Do you dabble or tinker with languages? Are you a linguistic botcher \/ bungler \/ tinkerer \/ dabbler? Or do you approach them in a more structured and focused way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fu\u0161ov\u00e1n\u00ed\u200f is a Czech word I discovered recently that appealed to me and that means “tinker, dabbling”. The related verb, fu\u0161ovat means “to potter, to tinker at, to botch, to dabble, to mess about, to tinker”. Other related words include: – fu\u0161er – quack, tinker, blunderer, boggler, botcher, bungler, cobbler, dabbler – fu\u0161ersk\u00e1 pr\u00e1ce – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,10,13,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-language","category-language-learning","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}