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…
Uh, just a hint of an accent
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kozel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
jarfil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Low effort.
At least pick some real sounding ones, like “Przemysław Mądrzykowski”, or something…
orl0pl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami
jarfil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie
weeabooextract@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 months ago
And the optometrist asked him if he could read the last line of the eye chart, to which he replied “Read it? That’s my wife’s maiden name”
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The first words out of my new coworker’s mouth were about Robert Lewandowsky.
Never in doubt.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s pronounced “Stefan Wloka”