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Help Sought: What Language is This?

Brian Leiter

My short essay on Richard Rorty’s Dewey Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School has just appeared, but not only in English!  Unbeknownst to me, it was translated for publication in the journal Kritika & Kontext, vol. 12, no. 34 (2007), which has just arrived in the mail.  (The translation seems to have been done from the version I posted on SSRN awhile back.)  The English title, "Science and Morality:  Pragmatic Reflections on Rorty’s ‘Pragmatism," appears as "Veda a moralka:  Pragmaticke reflexie Rortyho ‘pragmaatizmu.’"  (There are a couple of accents missing.)  What language is this?  Is it Czech?  The journal is published in Slovakia, but seems to publish in a number of Eastern European languages.  I’m sure some reader can enlighten me.  Thanks.  (Any information on the journal, which looks interesting [some of it is in English, and there are other (translated) contributions by Rorty, Michael Walzer, and Steven Pinker, among others] would also be appreciated.)

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6 responses to “Help Sought: What Language is This?”

  1. Matt

    One of the web page results for the journal says, "Kritika & Kontext is a quarterly, bi-lingual (Slovak, English) journal of book …"
    so I'd guess it's Slovak. (How different that is from Czech might depend on whether you ask as Czech or a Slovak!)

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  2. Cole Mitchell

    From the excerpt, it looks like Czech or Slovak. If the text has r's with a hook on top, then it's Czech. If the text has l's with an apostrophe, then it's Slovak.

    Also, though I don't know Slovak, this seems to be true: if the 'e' in 'veda' has a hook on top, then it's Czech; if not, then it's Slovak.

    Hope this helps.

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  3. Brian

    My thanks to Matt and Cole. The r's do not have hooks on top, nor does the "e" in "veda." There were accents on the (first) "a" in "moralka" and the "e" in "Pragmaticke" and that was it. So I guess it's Slovak!

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  4. Jiri Kindl

    It's Slovak. The title in Czech would be slightly different "Věda a morálka: Pragmatické reflexe Rortyho 'pragmatismu'". Slovak and Czech languages are very similar (if you speak Czech, you can understand and read in Slovak and vice versa).

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  5. Thom Brooks

    I agree with the consensus that say it is Slovak, although Czech and Slovak — while similar — are far from the same. I'm actually (very slowly) learning Slovak at the moment.

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  6. Martin

    I'm Slovak and I've got the above mentioned issue of Kritika&Kontext so I can confirm that the language is definitely Slovak. Hope I Helped.

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