POLSKAdoBOJU
24 Feb 2012
Language / Spelling "aunt" in Polish [142]
To all of you that use terms like busia, dziadzi, babci and jaja (this is Greek BTW) and your great great great great grandparents came from Lwów in the 1800s. You may in fact use these terms and think that you are speaking proper Polish, but you are not. They are no more Polish than words like bejsment, garbicz, korner and insiura, that I constantly hear Polonia using.
So please stop advising people, who want to learn Polish, on how to speak Polish. Because the way Polonia speaks in New Jersey is hardly the authoritative way on the Polish language.
To all of you that use terms like busia, dziadzi, babci and jaja (this is Greek BTW) and your great great great great grandparents came from Lwów in the 1800s. You may in fact use these terms and think that you are speaking proper Polish, but you are not. They are no more Polish than words like bejsment, garbicz, korner and insiura, that I constantly hear Polonia using.
So please stop advising people, who want to learn Polish, on how to speak Polish. Because the way Polonia speaks in New Jersey is hardly the authoritative way on the Polish language.