are lost on you coz you don`t understand them. Ha!!!!
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.
@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.
Poles which sounds discriminatory.
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.
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???
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!!!
Dlaczego takie brzydkie
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!!!!!!
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.
Ironside has a Hemingwayan ability
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.
Nouns for nationalities don't sound great in English, with a few historical exceptions
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).
Frenchwoman, Englishwoman, Irishwoman, Welshwoman and Scotswoman
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.
national adjectives that end in -ese theoretically can be used as nouns though it sounds a bit awkard
Those just sound slightly disrespectful. At best, newspaper shortenings to save ink, paper and space.
those that end in -ish really resist nominalization
That makes sense. Perhaps it's why forms like Swede, Dane, Jew, Finn, Turk exist. I suspect the nouns predate the adjectives.
I saw the first few words of that on the front page (
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.
That was weak. Try harder and make up sth on your own instead of monkeying me. Ha!!!
you are good that is what I aim for.
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.
