Polish nationality insults in Polish?

Never heard that one - are you sure??

If it's any consolation East Germany was called "polnische Wirtschaft" often enough too...;)

yes, I've heard it used in that context by members of my own family, if a woman was with a man who was suspected of not being her child's father, he was referred to as a 'Dutch uncle'

I guess the "Dann ist Polen offen" is something like saying Sajgon in Polish. A situation without control.

"Sajgon" as in "Saigon"? The vietnamese city?

Saigon. Yep.

Good one, Marynka !! I forgot that expression.

Daisy

Okay ... you didn't say gin was a bad thing.

But it becomes "painfully" obvious there are about as many English "insults" towards the Dutch as there are German "insults" towards the Polish. ;)

So therefore we can conclude: insults travel east ... .

I will start thinking about Dutch insults towards the Germans now ...

:P

Yes, but I have no clue, why.

Start with spitting...

;)

BB, I said insults travelled east ... not west ... ;).

I'm afraid the spitting incident is "our" fault.

Oh, yes famous "soûl comme un Polonais". Originally it was a complement for Poles but now has pejorative meaning. It was a praise of Polish soldiers bravery fighting for Napoleon under Samosierra in 1808 (?). Oh well.

I wouldn't worry about it - the English have insults for everyone! ; )

really?? Shouldnt worry about it,most Netherlanders Ive met take the p!ss out of the Dutch anyway.....;)

kompletna chińszczyzna - hard to understand, over your head

I think it's from the 60s (Vietnam war).

Perhaps you remember the song "Wietnam, Wietnam Pali się", if not listen to it, set to the melody of "Popcorn" by Gershon Kingsley and everything will be clear.

What's with this Polish chaos? Seriously. Are all Germanic countries so perfect? More ant-Polonism from the Krauts. Why not stereotype Ukrainian or Russian chaos?

That's because everyone has insults for the English



Because Poland is nearer.
When I was a kid visiting my grandparents and my cousins were there and we were all fighting and making a noise, my Granddad would say "it's like a bloody Irish parliament in here" meaning a lot of shouting and arguing but no one listening. If you look at the trend here, it's the neighbouring countries that get quotes about them

Such as?

I'm not being funny, but very few spring to mind.

the name 'czeski błąd' comes from an observation that some words in Czech use the same sounds as in Polish but in different sequence (wikipedia says it is called metathesis) like in karp (Pl) = kapr (Cz) (a carp); pokrzywa (Pl) - koprziva (Cz) (a nettle) (I used rz in koprziva to indicate the Czech r with hacek/caron (wikipedia is simply invaluable - never heard this caron name for hacek before)

'czeski błąd' does not bear any insulting or disparaging notion- it is just a technical term

Here (in the USA) ANYTHING "Polish" indicates stupidity and backwardness. So, a bridge that runs ALONG a river - polish bridge. Broken car - Polish engineering. Etc. Unfortunately, I am old enough to say that it's gettting better and better since... I'd say - the 80s or so. Anti-Polish attitudes were praciticed openly. Nowadays, in my opinin due to social engineering and just the fact that Americans wised up or move on to different targets, this kind of attitudes are not nearly as commonly expressed in public. Not that they disapeared.

that's not true... i've never heard about that...

When I say "Sajgon" I'm talking about total mess, chaos , out of any kind of control. I think it comes from Vietnam war and it's "chaos".

" I dont hate the English,the English are just wankers....." ;)
apart from that,cant see any one getting to het up about being called" Roast Beef"..............always thought that was a lame insult...

"limey" often used on here by keyboard warrior septic tanks who seem stuck in the 1940s and completely forget its not actually an insult but a complement to british ingenuity :)

Yeah limey and les rosbifs were the ones I was thinking of alright. Not exactly cutting insults, no.

In the "Eastern Bloc" of the communista era, anything "Russkie" indicated something not working appropriately. :) If someone with a runny nose is not using a tissue, we say he's using a Russkie handkerchief (HU. ruszki zsebkendő, PL. ruska chusteczka). Or a "Russkie bulldozer" = a lone worker with a shovel, "Russkie electricity" = you light a candle, "Russkie toilet" = a bucket etc.

BS.Never heard about it.

It's about the evacuation of Saigon while Viet Cong was ante portas. Polish TV of this time concentrated on scenes of total chaos and panic. Until now I remember one footage of somebody dangling from an overloaded helicopter.

How does Meksyk differ from Sajgon?

Germans have got chaos in their head when they come for a visit to Warsaw and see thriving , modern , prosperous city which they bombed in 1944 completely.