merari42@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoAlmost there. They could have used a real polish name like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1672arrow-down113
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minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up90·edit-210 days 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-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·10 days 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-up10·10 days agoyou should check out their supermarkets one time. You can learn new words like “zloty” (golden) and “bez” (without). And Piwo.
minus-squaresk1nnym1ke@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 days agoThe pronunciation is actually not that bad but the spelling is insanely difficult.
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoSpelling is actually very regular (way more than English), it’s just slightly unintuitive for non polish speakers
minus-squareCapricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoPolish and Czech are basically the Dutch of Eastern European languages.
minus-squareWhats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days agoAs my Polish-speaking mom likes to say, “Would you like to buy a vowel?”
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.
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.
The pronunciation is actually not that bad but the spelling is insanely difficult.
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.
As my Polish-speaking mom likes to say, “Would you like to buy a vowel?”