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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.

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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

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iopq@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
They are not pronounced the same way, the Polish word always has the extra spit at the end

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- trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What?
  
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  - iopq@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    THEY ARE NOT PRONOUNCED THE SAME WAY, THE POLISH WORD ALWAYS HAS THE EXTRA SPIT AT THE END
    
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    trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    WHEN SOMEONE ASKS YOU WHAT YOU MEAN YOU SHOULD PROBABLY ELABORATE INSTEAD OF JUST REPEATING IT IN ALL CAPS.
    
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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

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- trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh no.
  
  If I ever get interested in Ukrainian it’s over for me.
  
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