Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]

oh pitchka? lol are you sure that is supposed to be polish? sounds like o, pièka.. and one would have to go to another slavic language for that..

anyhow.. byćo w chuj.. or however one writes that and czochraj bobra! :P

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


Which pointless grammatical gender is that? unless you're raving about the fact that polish has an odd three way masculine form thingy.. I have no idea what you are talking about.

Slovenian has however dropt the vocative case.. or rather.. it is exactly the same as the nominative.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Well there may not be any inherent need.. but then you can start putting together a new shiny artificial language that will actually stick and be efficient enough for all uses and trades. I actually quite enjoy these little things in languages that make you want to chew your arms off. It's what makes languages magical :P still, Slovenian hasn't dropt any genders as far as I know... and a table is most certainly feminine in Slovenian :P

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Changes happen for the oddest reasons. What about double plural? Who decided the plural of "child" should be "children" when it already had a proper plural "childer" or as some say dialectic "childre". Odd were the times when the -en plural was popular.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

That really depends... You could either look at each language's difficulty by the difficulty it poses for native speakers to master it.. or people who learn it as a foreign language. The latter however is really a subjective thing. It all depends on how close your native language is to the one you're trying to learn and which other languages you are already familiar with. So it's hard to claim that whichever language is the hardest. Switching the writing and having to get into a completely other mindset of grammar or rather lack thereof is difficult for anyone.. so having been in contact with one set of languages all your life and then suddenly trying to learn Japanese is quite a challenge, I would say.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Oh when I've had two beers I'm a natural at Polish. :P

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

What do you mean quite okay to follow as a language? As in you find it easy to understand? Are you Polish or just living there? Cause you understanding Slovene would make much more sense were you actually Polish.. though I have to say it shouldn't be *that* easy. Or maybe I just had some extra difficulty trying to understand Polish when starting off :P And yes, I'm actually Slovenian. Born and raised in a country one needs about two hours to pass through. :P

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


Is it really? Sadly, after almost three years and an exchange program in Kraków, I'm fluent in neither - the descriptive drunken banter in foul language or the normal "let's have a conversation about something other than drinking or exchanging bodily fluids" part.

Seanus: Scotland might be small by your standards.. you could still fit about four Slovenia-sized countries in there though :P

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

So you would say you can get quite artistic with the four swear words you pick up the first day? Until you can fluently curse in Serbian you have learned nothing. Now that is *colourful* :P co więcej chciałam powiedzieć.. ah.. takie brzydkie słowa nie mają nic do roboty w takich słodkich ustach.. tsk, strike one.. następna stacja: lanie. :P

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

I'm just trying to say that from my point of view picking up foul language is quite pointless until you are skilled enough to actually draw up enough context by yourself to embed the said curses in. I also find people "learning" languages and claiming they can get by ridiculous. What good does it do to anyone when you can ask where something is and then get completely lost when someone tries to give you an answer in rapid speech and you turn into a deer caught in the lights.

And no, I'm not saying people shouldn't learn languages. And yes, learning a language takes time and a lot of mistakes. I'm just saying that it'd be easier if people would drop the "I can speak a gazillion languages" act.