Comment on Uh, just a hint of an accent
kozel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Once I met a Slovak guy with clearly polish surname, so I asked him wether he had polish ancestors. He genuinely didn’t get why would I think something like that…
Comment on Uh, just a hint of an accent
kozel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Once I met a Slovak guy with clearly polish surname, so I asked him wether he had polish ancestors. He genuinely didn’t get why would I think something like that…
weeabooextract@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe because Slovak and Polish are both West Slavic languages? So they are similar.
kozel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a west Slav (Moravian) myself, I’m usually able to distinguish these two, especially in written form. The meme shows the characteristics of polish quite realistically.