Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages

Then, I understand that without a problem, your vulgarity is a different matter. Take care of the foam at your mouth; some might mistake your "sonny" disposition,
for the result of a close encounter with a rabbit animal,

No, you don`t understand cultural language coz when I used it, you started peddling insults. So I lowered myself to your level for a while and I see it worked perfectly coz you got the message and duly reacted. Ha!

Native Poles and Polesses sound more polite and caring when they use Poles and Polesses aka Polacy and Polki phrase instead of only Poles which sounds discriminatory.

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or Polish people, which is what most native speakers would say

@mafketis
Quite. Nouns for nationalities don't sound great in English, with a few historical exceptions, mainly close to England or with historical contact, like Poles, Finns, Spaniards, Arabs, Scots. Turks, Swedes, Danes. Many others are either derogatory and/or military slang, Chinaman, Kraut, Frog, Wop, Dago, Mick, Seppo, Kellper, Yanito, Saint, Saffer, or slurs about black, gypsy and Pakistani people.


As you know, English is one of the least gendered Indo-European languages, and given that pole can mean kij or laską, putting an -ess doesn't sound comfortable.

Anyway, try it with Finn and people will think you're talking about bridge.

We don`t care how it sounds to various azholes. ):):) it sounds fantastic to Poles and Polesses and that`s what counts in the Polish forum. Ha!!!!

Since none of those exist, it doesn't sound at all. And it's a comically bad sounding word that nobody sober would use..

Etymologically, it has the idea of "less faeces".

It would t be so bad if it did t end in -less...

Don`t be so fast with quoting. Are you so impatiently waiting for my post to reply immediately??? :):):)
We are shaping the language according to our needs!!! Ha!! Simple.

Yes, because you have been so lazy with the language for centuries. Do we have to follow that stupendous approach??? Of course not. That is why your lazing English is improved by decent Poles and Polesses and you can`t help it.

Anybody who opposes Poles and Polesses is a stupid azhole who promotes language laziness. Simple.
So far two of them have taken voice. Anybody else???

Or the opposite, since it's perhaps the richest and most dynamic language in the world.


You have to bow down before us and weep as you worship us for giving you the language that you'll reply to this in. Kwestia jest w tego typu.

And yes, I do know thats a crude phrase in Polish that Poles, male or female, criticise the use of. W każdym (bądź) razie the kulturalny ones.


What the frig?

Your female version of Poles is awkward and counterlinguistic however at least it's not as bad as "trainings".


Dlaczego takie brzydkie do mnie mówisz?

Exactly!!! My second name is Improvement of your faulty linguistics. hahahaha This is a Polish forum and it is supposed to adhere to Polish culture. The fact that we use English for communication is completely irrelevant. Polish culture matters more! Ha!!!


You can blame yourself. I am too patriotic and feministic to handle the enemies of the Polish culture in velvet gloves. I have been kind and decent for too long. No more!!!!!!

Hear, hear pawku!

Which seems to be everyone in the universe except you.... please provide information that anyone else is using that abomination.

"Pole" applies equally to men and women the same way 'German' or 'Canadian' or 'American'. Why introduce a sex distinction that's not needed?

Right, Maf!
Polish, German, and other languages have such a distinction, English hasn't.

It isn't, simian face, really it isn't.


The last refuge of scoundrels/lobuzy


If only

BS! It doesn't, its sound good to you because you are retarded.

to Poles and Polesses. I didn`t mean you in that group coz you are an alien body in Poland after 30 years` emigration.

Ironside has a Hemingwayan ability to deliver even the most complex messages in easily accessible form.


Who needs Russians, when Poles have so much love for each other already?

For attention...

Don`t be stupid. All countries are similarly polarised. In Poland, decent intelligent Poles and Polesses reject rightists, nationalists, homo sovieticuses and this sort of maniacs. It isn`t a sin. Jesus also rejected bad people.


BS, His best ability is to crap turd in the middle of the path and hide in the bushes nearby to observe walkers step into it. He derives sick pleasure when they do.

Nationalists like Iron mainly. They realise they will never take power in Poland unless Russians help them like they helped Polish communists after WW2.
Recently Iron warmly talked about you. It is obvious he is preparing the ground for closer cooperation with imperial Russians.

The only nouns for nationalities that have specifically female forms I can think of include

Frenchwoman, Englishwoman, Irishwoman, Welshwoman and Scotswoman.... The pronunciation of the first four are not always clearly distinguished (though they can be) from adj plus noun (English woman, French woman etc).

Lots of nationalities can be either nouns or adjectives depending on the context esp those ending in -an (American, Hungarian, Mexican, Chilean etc) national adjectives that end in -ese theoretically can be used as nouns though it sounds a bit awkard ?A Japanese ?A Portuguese? and those that end in -ish really resist nominalization *a Polish, *a Spanish *a Danish (about a person, not the pastry).

I saw the first few words of that on the front page (Frenchwoman and Englishwoman) and was going add that these Scotswoman and Irishwoman (both old-fashioned) but not Welshwoman that I've never heard or read. Then autocorrect didn't highlight it and the dictionary mentions it. Dictionaries from your country and mine also have Manxwoman, and Collins lists Cornishwoman.

Scotswoman makes me think of the woman in the black cape and hood in the Scottish Widows Insurance advert. It's got a real old-fashioned feel and Welshwoman just doesn't sound right. If I was talking about my grannies (one of each, Scotland and Wales) I'd just use the adjectives.


Those just sound slightly disrespectful. At best, newspaper shortenings to save ink, paper and space.


That makes sense. Perhaps it's why forms like Swede, Dane, Jew, Finn, Turk exist. I suspect the nouns predate the adjectives.

Linguistically correct assumption, jon.

I think I've only really heard the first three, I checked on a hunch that the others were in dictionaries.... there's also Dutchwoman which I may have heard and apparently Chinawoman (now offensive, like Chinaman).

So the only real way of forming explicitly female nouns for nationality is with -woman which is no longer productive (that is new forms can't be made).

And again the only two (ethno-racial, not nationality) words I've ever heard with -ess are Jewess and Negress (both offensive now).

@mafketis
You've got me thinking now. In northern English speech patterns, especialy among the working class, they sometimes add (or added; it's a bit old-fashioned) the suffix -woman in some contexts, sort of diminutive, familiar, diminishing, being amusing. Examples are "that hairdresserwoman", "washerwoman", "Mrs Fussywoman", "the domesticwoman" (cleaing/laundry), "the milkwoman" etc.

Old fashioned now, and apart from washerwoman which is a very old pre-tech job, I've only ever heard women (all northern) use the suffix.

The only alien body is a peanut stuck between your ears, it takes the role of your missing brian.
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Wow, you are good that is what I aim for.
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geez with the crap you come up with it makes you look bizarre. I think that is something you would do.

That was funny. I like peanuts. \:):):)


That was weak. Try harder and make up sth on your own instead of monkeying me. Ha!!!


Kneel down and lick Bobko where he tells you to..... hahahaha ....... hoping he will promote you for the governor of a Polish province occupied by imperial Russians.