No everyone, just the Germans. And Italians are the hairy ones for some reason.
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raman_klogius@ani.social 2 months ago
Better than the Poles calling everyone else mute
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 months ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Perhaps the reason is the hair and also Romans never made it anywhere close to Poland and were too busy fighting themselves by the time Poland was exposed to them (thanks to the Germans putting them on mute for everyone to the east), otherwise they might have been called something like “legions of assholes”.
halfapage@lemmy.world 2 months ago
they what
Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
in Polish [the word for Germany] is Niemcy, from the Proto-Slavic *němьcь, meaning speechless, since German is not mutually intelligible with Slavic languages;
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 2 months ago
Funny fact! Thanks
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s like half of us Slavs doing it.