merari42@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAlmost there. They could have used a real polish name like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up1471
arrow-up1471imageAlmost there. They could have used a real polish name like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz?lemmy.worldmerari42@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square10linkfedilink
minus-squareExLisperAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up64·edit-22 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-squareWhats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoAs my Polish-speaking mom likes to say, “Would you like to buy a vowel?”
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 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-up9·2 days 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?”
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.