merari42@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoAlmost there. They could have used a real polish name like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1669arrow-down112
arrow-up1657arrow-down1imageAlmost there. They could have used a real polish name like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz?lemmy.worldmerari42@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up89·edit-26 months agoMy favorite polish word is dżdżownica (earthworm). Pronounced j-j-ov-NEE-tsa. Oh, and dżdży (it rains), pronounced j-j-ih And before anyone asks, yes, dżdżownica is called like that because it comes out of the ground when dżdży.
minus-squareWhats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 months agoAs my Polish-speaking mom likes to say, “Would you like to buy a vowel?”
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoSpelling is actually very regular (way more than English), it’s just slightly unintuitive for non polish speakers
minus-squareCapricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoPolish and Czech are basically the Dutch of Eastern European languages.
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·6 months agoThe only polish word I know is kurwa. It must mean “the” or something because I swear when I listen to some of my polish colleges talking it comes up in every other sentence.
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 months agoyou should check out their supermarkets one time. You can learn new words like “zloty” (golden) and “bez” (without). And Piwo.
My favorite polish word is dżdżownica (earthworm). Pronounced j-j-ov-NEE-tsa.
Oh, and dżdży (it rains), pronounced j-j-ih
And before anyone asks, yes, dżdżownica is called like that because it comes out of the ground when dżdży.
As my Polish-speaking mom likes to say, “Would you like to buy a vowel?”
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Spelling is actually very regular (way more than English), it’s just slightly unintuitive for non polish speakers
Polish and Czech are basically the Dutch of Eastern European languages.
The only polish word I know is kurwa. It must mean “the” or something because I swear when I listen to some of my polish colleges talking it comes up in every other sentence.
you should check out their supermarkets one time. You can learn new words like “zloty” (golden) and “bez” (without).
And Piwo.