Posts by CacyUlcia

CacyUlcia

28 Aug 2009

czarna krowa w kropki bordo gryzla trawe krecac morda

It's not a nursery rhyme but a tongue twister used to stress the hevy sounding semivowel "r", and it vibrates when it's prnouced in Polish words like "krowa." This semivowel is never used in English language and it's almost impossible for native English speakers to pronouce it corectly in Polish words.

Just some nursery rhymes...to sing and entertain a child.

"Kosi, kosi łapci.
pojedziemy do babci.
babcia da nam kaszki,
a dziadzio - okraszki

kosi kosi łapci
pojedziemy do babci
babcia da nam mleczka
dziadek cukiereczka

kosi kosi łapci
pojedziemy do babci
od babci do cioci
ciocia da łakoci"

Ja znam śmieszniejszą wersje tej piosenki (a different version)

Koći, Koći, łapći
Pojedźem do Babci
Babcia da pieroszka
A Dziadek papieroska

CacyUlcia

28 Aug 2009

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]

I like your grandparents! :)

This verse was made up by a long distance cousin of mine, I thought it was funny when I first herd it. But it doesn't describe my grandparents; they didn't smoke.

CacyUlcia

28 Sep 2009

Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]

there were about 3 or 4 steps of progressive diminutisation between Joanna and Asia. Its quite fascinating :)

Joanna... Joasia... Asia - it only takes two ;)

3. Asiunia
4. Aśka !
5. Jasia
so 5 +

just like Urszula, Urszulka, Ula, Ulcia, Ulka!

:)

I'm curious if there are actual 'rules' for this or if its just made up...

rule #1 it must have an "a" at the end in order to make it feminine.

CacyUlcia

5 Jan 2010

Life / POLISH DANCING (how to to this holding hands and such?) [11]

and even after declining i have often been dragged onto the dance floor , maybe its my stunning good looks ,

because it looks childish and retarded if a woman dances with a woman, unless a group of girls are doing a traditional dancing like Krakowiak. Polish men feel culturally obligated to dance just like women. There's many Polish folk dance types, that you must know how to dance in order to keep the tradition going.

All the Poles i see dancing seem to be expert in this form of dancing , even the young ones , do they learn it at school , or do families usually teach their childern it...

There's many Polish folk dance types. At Polish public schools, students usually learn the easiest and most old fashioned Polish folk dancing like Polish Polonez from 16th century.

Learn this one before learning two-step: Polonez is easy and two-step is mostly incorporated in many types of Polish dance.

I learned Malva at my Polish School when I was young and I liked it.

Polka dancing in America

They really look clumsy doing that Polka. Polka moves are more distinct... I have uncles who are really good Polka dancers and they do a lot of fast jumping, sometimes it's hard to keep up with them...

Here is a better version of Polka.

CacyUlcia

16 Jan 2010

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [554]

What's your connection with Poland?

Most of my family is Polish. I have a large distant family, like 100+ people who were born and raised in Poland, (yet a lot of my family migrated towards western countries and the states). And of course my memories as well as friendships I've made in Poland before I even started to walk-LOL-I still remember that.

youtu.be/1BD-lFQ5iKs

CacyUlcia

24 Jan 2010

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]

I thought Koći was a kitten?

Kitten is kotek, or koteczek
Koći in this verse means to indulge

does the meaning change with the ć or c ?

Yes, koc means blanket