As a Ukrainian, I can almost understand written Polish and Belarusian despite not speaking either. Spoken Polish tho… good luck
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ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 5 weeks agoThe Slavic languages are interesting but I don't know a lot about them. It must be amusing to be aware of the various levels of mutual intelligibility. Do you know any jokes Eastern Europeans make about this among themselves?
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The one reason that Polish is so funny to me is the amount of homophones between it and my native language with vastly different meanings.
One of the funniest being:
Szukać - To look for (Polish)
Šukať - To fuck (Slovak, improper/slang)
Both pronounced the same way.
ConfusedPossum@kbin.social 5 weeks ago
Lovely. I used to have a Ukrainian coworker and she overhead me use the word 'zoeken' (search) and she thought I was swearing as I didn't pronounce the 'n' strongly
iopq@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They are not pronounced the same way, the Polish word always has the extra spit at the end
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What?
iopq@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
THEY ARE NOT PRONOUNCED THE SAME WAY, THE POLISH WORD ALWAYS HAS THE EXTRA SPIT AT THE END
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I assure you that Ukrainian is going to be just as funny to you, because we did loan like a third of our vocabulary from Polish. And another third is homophones, so you can have two layers of the broken phone game
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh no.
If I ever get interested in Ukrainian it’s over for me.