Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 months agoIt's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1959arrow-down19
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minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoThe one reason that Polish is so funny to me is the amount of homophones between it and my native language with vastly different meanings. One of the funniest being: Szukać - To look for (Polish) Šukať - To fuck (Slovak, improper/slang) Both pronounced the same way.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoThey are not pronounced the same way, the Polish word always has the extra spit at the end
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoTHEY ARE NOT PRONOUNCED THE SAME WAY, THE POLISH WORD ALWAYS HAS THE EXTRA SPIT AT THE END
minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoWHEN SOMEONE ASKS YOU WHAT YOU MEAN YOU SHOULD PROBABLY ELABORATE INSTEAD OF JUST REPEATING IT IN ALL CAPS.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoThere’s an s’ sound at the end of szikac’ which is different from t’
minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoThey’re technically different but extremely similar sounds.
minus-squarePoolloverNathan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months ago!woooosh@lemmy.world
minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoIt wasn’t even a joke, they explained what they meant later.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI assure you that Ukrainian is going to be just as funny to you, because we did loan like a third of our vocabulary from Polish. And another third is homophones, so you can have two layers of the broken phone game
minus-squaretrashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoOh no. If I ever get interested in Ukrainian it’s over for me.
The one reason that Polish is so funny to me is the amount of homophones between it and my native language with vastly different meanings.
One of the funniest being:
Szukać - To look for (Polish)
Šukať - To fuck (Slovak, improper/slang)
Both pronounced the same way.
They are not pronounced the same way, the Polish word always has the extra spit at the end
What?
THEY ARE NOT PRONOUNCED THE SAME WAY, THE POLISH WORD ALWAYS HAS THE EXTRA SPIT AT THE END
WHEN SOMEONE ASKS YOU WHAT YOU MEAN YOU SHOULD PROBABLY ELABORATE INSTEAD OF JUST REPEATING IT IN ALL CAPS.
There’s an s’ sound at the end of szikac’ which is different from t’
They’re technically different but extremely similar sounds.
!woooosh@lemmy.world
It wasn’t even a joke, they explained what they meant later.
I assure you that Ukrainian is going to be just as funny to you, because we did loan like a third of our vocabulary from Polish. And another third is homophones, so you can have two layers of the broken phone game
Oh no.
If I ever get interested in Ukrainian it’s over for me.