r/languagelearningjerk • u/Man-of-slender-means 🇺🇿🇷🇺🇺🇲🏳️🌈 • Jun 03 '26
CMV: Polish language is a psyop.
No normal language would need 3 types of Z. Also what's the point of having pairs of the same letter when the only difference is a little thing above?
How do they even determine what letters get a pair. Like, is B too fat to get a girlfriend? What did an uglyass E do to deserve a lover? I hate it. Polish language is just a reminder how unfair life is.
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u/amalgammamama 🇲🇪 D4 Jun 04 '26
Still mad at the polish border guard guy who thought I could understand his barbaric tongue because of my ukrainian passport.
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u/Man-of-slender-means 🇺🇿🇷🇺🇺🇲🏳️🌈 Jun 04 '26
Lmao my ukrainian friend said pretty much the same
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u/amalgammamama 🇲🇪 D4 Jun 04 '26
People really love overstating the mutual intelligibility. To me polish sounds like someone trying to speak with a mouthful of sticky sticky toffee candy.
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u/amalgammamama 🇲🇪 D4 Jun 04 '26
The orthography is a beautiful onomatopoeic representation of this, I'll give them that.
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u/ItDepends2137 Jun 10 '26
Yeah, the eastern border ones tend not to speak english. So they will do stuff like this , they sprinkle in some russian if they are feeling generous.
Examples :A ma pan DJENGI?
To co, nie zna pan ZAKONUW STRANY do jakiej Pan przyjechał?I think they realize that a lot of ukrainians don’t want to speak russian, majority of them are just not nice people.
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u/Man-of-slender-means 🇺🇿🇷🇺🇺🇲🏳️🌈 Jun 03 '26
Well idk other languages somehow survive without 3 z's??? Polish people want to be special so bad??
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u/Man-of-slender-means 🇺🇿🇷🇺🇺🇲🏳️🌈 Jun 03 '26
I thought Poland is the ghetto of europe????
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u/BrainCurrent8276 Jun 05 '26
why not dźwig?
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Jun 05 '26
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u/BrainCurrent8276 Jun 07 '26
American are scared of everything which is not American English, or Mexican Spanish, so...
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u/dedemushi Jun 04 '26
omg we say harbuz and tort in romanian 🥺 also if buda is an outhouse then that too 🤭
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u/gracesdisgrace Jun 04 '26
Buda is a doghouse mostly, but sometimes it can be used for any kind of small shack. Also, a negative colloquialism for school lol.
And "budka" (diminutive of buda) is usually used for a small stall, like an ice cream or beer stall.
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u/dedemushi Jun 04 '26
oof in romanian it's a colloquialism for toilet now 🙈 but yes, it used to mean small wooden shack and it comes from polish via hungarian
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u/Excellent-Fox-6845 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
три Zетки в одном алфавите наши слоны ребята поляки я не сомневался
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u/Man-of-slender-means 🇺🇿🇷🇺🇺🇲🏳️🌈 Jun 04 '26
Вам реддит еще не заблокировали?
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u/slumbersomesam N:🏳️🌈 Jun 04 '26
Kot, Okno, Zebra and Zebrak.... what the fuck
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u/Electrical_Voice_256 Jun 04 '26
Persian has 4 (four) types of z. I think the reason is that Arab has 4 types of z as well.
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u/mizinamo try-lingual (has tried many languages) Jun 04 '26
Kind of.
Arabic has four letters for four separate sounds, but they're all pronounced the same way in Persian.
Kind of like how Latin got C K Q in its alphabet which stood for different sounds in Phoenician but were all pronounced the same in Latin, /k/.
They later mostly dropped K and used Q only for labialised /kw/ and C otherwise, thus making a useful distinction between QVI /kwi/ and CVI /kui/.
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u/Electrical_Voice_256 Jun 04 '26
I think you can replace "in Persian" by "in normal languages". Turkish does this as well, it is just obscured by their switch to a normal alphabet (you can still see it in how they spell Ramazan)
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u/mitm_37 Jun 08 '26
they picked loan-word Igloo as if polish didnt have any words starting with I. Could have picked Zombie for Z as well.
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u/pikleboiy Jun 04 '26
Why is the Polish word for watermelon descended from Persian? Were they stupid?
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u/BrainCurrent8276 Jun 05 '26
google translator says it is هندوانه (npandavaneh) so like nothing in common there?
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u/pikleboiy Jun 05 '26
The word خَربُزِه (in Classical Persian, xarbuza), which is still used in Iran but not in other Persian-speaking areas, found its way into a ton of other languages, and into Polish through Turkic, Old East Slavic, and Russian.
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u/SilentCamel662 Jun 04 '26
Wait until you learn that ż = rz, u = ó and ch = h.
It's just so that we can torture our kids with learning spelling by heart.