Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off

This, like nothing else, reveals the fundamental difference in attitudes. To a Pole, the more complicated, the better. Yet, with all that ability to create bs words, Polish looks more and more like English. Just try to read any Polish publication about smartphones, computers, and the internet. Kliknij? How about just click - with that exact spelling.

Most pilots would rather land blind than have the traffic controllers speak "rich" and "nuanced" Polish.

Actually I find Kliknij and similar EngPol/Poglish fusions really cute :)

...who loved drama and passion. That's why they have that rolling r.

oh man don't get me started on those f**king rolling rrr's !

I do, too, but I am glad I don't have to use it, and dozens of others like it.
Speaking of cute, Poles have this strange tendency to cutify almost everything - from body parts to anything they are emotionally attached to.
To me, it's a car. To them, it's samochodzik. Or, more specifically, Lexusik. No, I didn't make it up.
It seems that every noun has to have its baby version.

an alcoholic


Hey that description fits you to the T. You're onto something ...

Lol!!

I really did laugh out loud when I read that, so true.

I never use reverse psychology.

Fiaciki, Mazdki, Hondki, piwko i wódeczka.... Who never held a real cafezinho bonzinho in their mãozinha will not understand...

Is it what they add to the milk for infants?


It feels like I never left. That "at home" feeling...at no cost. Thanks.

Diminutives in Polish (and other Slavic languages) serve a number of purposes, mostly centering around making language more emotional and/or intimate.

They can indicate affection (for the item or a person associated with it) politeness, dismissal or other emotions.

Samochodzik stresses the enjoyment of driving in a way that plain old samochód or car doesn't.

The emotionally stunted may find the intersection of emotion and language to be baffling and unnecessary....

Don't tell Arnold that his Hummer was samochodzik.


That is why I wrote that Polish was designed for women and pussified poets.
BTW, I hate poets and poetry. They bend the message to fit the form while hoping to get laid.

that should surprise no one, cause...

your heart's an empty hole,
your brain is full of spiders,
you've got garlic in your soul.

You just described a bitter old Polish woman that blabbers just to blabber about anything and everything.

Never heard Mazdka or Hondka. They sound ridiculous and strange and may only be used by a person struck with affection. Fiacik was often applied to Mały Fiat (126P). Quite rightly, in my view, as it was so small. I don't think diminutives are overused in Polish.


Actually, the combination of letters cz and sz was an original Czech invention which the Polish had borrowed at the time when the Hus reform of the Czech ortography did not yet arrived. This old Czech transcription has been preserved in the English spelling of the word 'Czech'.

English also uses combinations of letters in the same way as does Polish; these are the 'sh' (Polish sz) and the 'ch' (Polish cz), haven't you noticed?


Only in your head. We don't feel our language being complicated. Maybe you do, but that's a different kettle of fish.

Poetry is for those who want to be impressed. Prose is for those who want to be informed. Impressed, informed...Easy choice. Go impress somebody else...

And that is why poetry was invented for women. Like dancing...Swept off her feet...


Does Fiacik have pedalki, hamulciky, and oponki? How about okienka and kierowniczka? And you put benzynke to make it run?


Chinese say the same thing about Chinese and Spassky about chess.

Maybe they're all just smarter than you....

Yes! This is Mr Samochodzik from a cult series who enjoys driving his extraordinary car with Ferrari engine inside:

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I just dont feel comfortable around these people or the culture but at the same time I usually esp without alcohol feel comfortable in my own skin.

Any of u are like this that when sober you are so self aware you question your walk or just your awareness?

Or you feel your hair or legs at times just interacting or being around humans? Imagine how difficult it must be to sit down next to a female on a bench.

That's apparently in Czech ...



Both of you even taken together.

I will never forget the moment of desperation at Gdansk when I had to switch to English to buy a train ticket. With the reverb and the noise, I couldn't figure what the cashier was saying. That bullet-proof window with a small hole meant for the three-foot-tall people didn't help, either. Once in English, it was easy. I guess that's what happens when you take them off script.

My point exactly!