Pozdro & kasa? - examples of Polish word abbreviations

How long has the tendency to abbreviate common terms been around 5, 10, 15 years or more? I refer to such things as pozdro, nara, spoko, siema, etc. Does anyone know any more such examples? Are any of these examples of gaol slang entering normal slang or at least youth jargon?

How about the slang term for money? Which is your favourite: szmal, forsa, kasa, dutki, hajc...?
Know any others?

mamona, kapusta, szmelc ;)

'Siema' is a trademark word of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Owsiak

The others are used by older people who think they sound cool and young when they use it, or by youths who think using slangy words will make them cool. I think 'spoko' is entering more common speech. Sometimes I use it, but never in formal situations. I guess these words sound a bit... ridiculous. I'm 22, so I guess I'm still a youth, but if someone started talking to me like that, I wouldn't treat the person seriously.

Only Jurek Owsiak can say 'Siema!' and not turn out silly. :)

What does 'Pozdro' even mean? :)
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it's short for pozdrawiam

the priests can say pochwa instead of pochwalony ;-)

That's OK, because a priest has never seen a pochwa.
Or did he....????

Technically he has seen one during his birth ;-)

Siema!

Nice topic this is.

Nara!

I have good out-dated word:

W PYTE!!

It is used by rednecks to say that something is cool. Yeah....

W pytę

Krysia, why the talk of pochwa? ;)

Poz is even more common for pozdrawiam I think.

If I see POZ i think of poznań, not pozdrawiam.
w pytę is good,

PYTA = BIG COCK

In Poznan there's also siano (lit. hay) and bejmy (from German???)

kaska (cassca),
hajs (hice),
papier (papee-er),
dutki (dootkie) -> this one is from mountain side, it is good if used by foreigner. everybody will be shocked if you say like: ni mom dutkuf panocku (ain't got money man) -> pronounced: nee mom doot koof pano-ts-coo. LOL

yes, very popular

in Lodz we say 'siopka'(money)/'nie mam siopki'(i'm out of money) very often (it doesnt translate to english... i don't even know what does it mean in polish :P :) )

So 'Siema' is made by that guy but what does it actually mean? I always thought of it deconstructed as 'Sie ma' like I/You - have i.e. some kind of greeting like whassup! :D

Siema - yo, sup, hey etc.

Yes. Something like "yo.. what's up?" in English. But kind of a retorical question, which doesn't need an answer.

I heard it was abbr. from "jak się masz?". But without the ę-pronunciation of course. Does anyone know if it's true?

i think "siema" is the word made by Jurek Owsiak in early 90's when the Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy (The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity) was made. He was used to say siema every time he was appearing on tv :) its made from "jak sie masz" as Szwed said :)

Cheers.

How about Siemanko?

i co tam w łódź?