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Babcia or Busha - any social class difference?


Ziemowit 14 | 4,278
18 Aug 2013 #301
My comment wasn't addressed to you, Harry. I was explaining things to Sofijufka as she seems to be unaware of all the things "in the background". If Polonius agrees with you at least on this, you're a lucky man!
Harry
18 Aug 2013 #302
Direct your lies to whomever you wish ziemowit, I'll still point them out as lies. As for 'tradition', its not me who is claiming an American word is a Polish word.
Poltecatl
23 Aug 2013 #303
Why are many of you looking up words in the dictionary!? The dictionary is meant to be a mere representation of the vocabulary we use to speak, not the other way around! A dictionary has nothing more to say about a language than being providing definitions to but a subset of a language's vocabulary, all stopped in time of printing.

While "Busia" is non-standard (e.g. I haven't heard it myself here in Toronto), this does not mean that it is not part of a regiolect of the Polish language. And the Polish language is definitely not confined to the political boundaries of Poland. It is used all over the world where there are Polish people, and it influences other languages and is influenced by them as well, in different ways.

Do not misunderstand me: I am not promoting the word "Busia"; I simply think discussing whether it is in the dictionary or not is ridiculous. As an alternative, I think you should keep nana's question open and see: perhaps there are many other people who have heard this word.

So I urge all Polonophones, regardless of your citizenship, to stop limiting yourselves to such superfluous things as deciding whether a word is correct or incorrect, and instead, get together with fellow Polish-speakers and make authentic non-limited conversations! There is more to speaking a language than staring into a dictionary.
jms
23 Oct 2013 #304
we always spelled it buszia and dziadzia - I was raised in chicago and called my grandparents these
Wulkan - | 3,203
24 Oct 2013 #305
buszia

that must be some American dialect of Polish language
f stop 25 | 2,507
24 Oct 2013 #306
Why are we still beating this dog? If that was an honest question, it was answered: it is not a word used in Poland. Otherwise it just getting rehashed for the sake of argument.
Wulkan - | 3,203
24 Oct 2013 #307
If that was an honest question, it was answered

but it wasn't answered by me, I can't see where is your problem
f stop 25 | 2,507
24 Oct 2013 #308
It wasn't just you, Wulkan, I was simply expressing my amazement that this subject gets brought up so often.
jon357 74 | 22,087
24 Oct 2013 #309
This one does keep coming back.

It seems that it's a word used mostly in the US that seems odd in Poland - perhaps like some of the words that mostly went out of English English centuries ago but are still used over there. Like cordwood, gotten or

home-spun

delphiandomine 88 | 18,163
24 Oct 2013 #310
aps like some of the words that mostly went out of English English centuries ago but are still used over there.

Furlough was a favourite recently.
billpawl - | 32
25 Oct 2013 #311
jon357

This one does keep coming back.

It seems that it's a word used mostly in the US that seems odd in Poland - perhaps like some of the words that mostly went out of English English centuries ago but are still used over there. Like cordwood, gotten or home-spun

I would think "busia" is more likely an evolvement in a Polish-American dialect than a holdover from Polish not used in Poland anymore. My Polish grandparents were from the same generation as many others mentioned in this thread. However, they were farmers not around a Polonia community. There was no "busia" in their language and I think the reason is the lack of exposure to other polonia and that "busia" was not part of their language in Poland.
motownkas
24 Dec 2013 #312
We always called our grandma busha
bowlingbusha
24 Dec 2013 #313
My Busha died 20 years ago at the age of 87. She was born is Poland and that is what she called her Grandmother.
Harry
25 Dec 2013 #314
How was she born in Poland in 1906?
Wulkan - | 3,203
25 Dec 2013 #315
We always called our grandma busha

I feel sorry for her
Mr Grunwald 33 | 2,193
26 Dec 2013 #316
Why? My father allways called his Grandmother for Busia. Just as everybody else in the family

How was she born in Poland in 1906?

Republic of Poland (the state) =//= Poland the geograhpical area in an literal sense. Although since it has the state of Poland has been fairly unmoved for a time people would easily understand where in the general area it's being spoken about. Of course you seem to pretend your stupid to heat up an senseless argument or well... No words for that sorry.

It seems that it's a word used mostly in the US that seems odd in Poland - perhaps like some of the words that mostly went out of English English centuries ago but are still used over there. Like cordwood, gotten or

Not really I would say... Depends on the family, most likely if the family had lived under the Russian yoke then they were most likely to continue it I guess.
Wulkan - | 3,203
26 Dec 2013 #317
Why?

because it's incorrect and she as a native Polish speaker knew that and had to put up with it

Not really I would say... Depends on the family, most likely if the family had lived under the Russian yoke then they were most likely to continue it I guess.

You guess wrong, both of my parents grew up in this part of Poland and none of them ever heard of someoone calling their grandmother "busha"!
f stop 25 | 2,507
26 Dec 2013 #318
I suspect that the resurrecting of this thread could be a tireless work of a loving grandson, trying to keep the memory of his babusia alive.

But dude, your busha lied! :)
ShawnH 8 | 1,497
26 Dec 2013 #319
I think it is entirely plausible that somebody could have a busia that they love so dearly.
jon357 74 | 22,087
26 Dec 2013 #320
Yes. And that generation have a habit of dying on you. And when they're gone, they don't come back.

And if they do, get a priest.
Mr Grunwald 33 | 2,193
28 Dec 2013 #321
You guess wrong

I don't guess I know my family called my fathers grandparents for Busia... I was only pointing out the most likely scenario of why they did that. Unless you call my family aliens coming from outer space or Ukrainian idk then their Polish.

Also I was thinking about territories that was part of former Poland. Like east of nowadays Poland up to Kiev

Yes. And that generation have a habit of dying on you. And when they're gone, they don't come back.

What? What are you even talking about?
Wulkan - | 3,203
28 Dec 2013 #322
Also I was thinking about territories that was part of former Poland. Like east of nowadays Poland up to Kiev

That option actually makes some sense

jon357:Yes. And that generation have a habit of dying on you. And when they're gone, they don't come back.
What? What are you even talking about?

It's not that hard to figure this out.
loveothers
31 Oct 2015 #323
Hi everyone! This conversation is good to have! It reminds me of the people here in the USA-we have different regions and people say things differently (like Ya'll or you guys:)

It sounds like the different regions there have different ways of saying things too!

I am looking at some cute Polish mugs to get my mom and mother in law for Christmas gifts and one says Babcia and one says Bucia. I have found this conversation helpful as to whom will get what, but again-it reminds me of how we say things differently in different regions-most certainly all over the world. Love the diversity!
Polonius3 994 | 12,367
31 Oct 2015 #324
Bucia

Are you sure it isn't busia with an "s"?
Metman60
2 Jan 2016 #325
It was the opposite in my family. Babcia was my mother's mother while busha was my father's mother.
Cichociemni
2 Jan 2016 #326
My aunt was born near Ternopol early 1900's in a mixed Ruthenian/Polish village. She used the term babushka to refer to a woman's headscarf. Now that is also an accepted English word now, but it is considered to be considered of Russian and Polish origin. Remember that in the kresy mixed marriages were common, so a Ruthenian influence in the local dialects is to be expected. Usage of the the term may be more common among those from the East.
Baszynski
17 Mar 2016 #327
My mother's mother went by Buszi, and her father by Dziadzi.
Wulkan - | 3,203
18 Mar 2016 #328
Buszi

I have never seen a Polish word where you have "i" after "sz"
delphiandomine 88 | 18,163
18 Mar 2016 #329
Jesziwa - pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesziwa

Tut tut, call yourself a native speaker? ;)
Wulkan - | 3,203
18 Mar 2016 #330
I said I have never heard not that it doesn't exist so you can't google it like you did.


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