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WE GONNA GO BY BUSIA's?



Polonius3Threads: 1,005
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  Apr 25, 09, 15:59 /  #
Anyone ever encounter such English speech by 2nd generation Polish Americans?:
We gonna go by busia's who's making kabassi. Was youse on a wedding yesterday?
Dat ain't no good. Ciocia Mary's coming over.
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  Apr 25, 09, 16:24 /  #
Polonius3:
Anyone ever encounter such English speech by 2nd generation Polish Americans?:
We gonna go by busia's who's making kabassi. Was youse on a wedding yesterday?
Dat ain't no good. Ciocia Mary's coming over.

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  Apr 25, 09, 18:07 /  #
Was youse on a wedding yesterday?
Dat ain't no good.

Those are just colloquialisms not indicative in any way of a particular ethnic background, but more of education level and social class of the speaker.

The use of Polish honorifics is another matter. Peppering English speech with them is quite common among second generation Polish-Americans. Growing up in a family where Polish was the primary language, grandmother was "babcia", uncles were "wujki", aunts "ciocias", it's ingrained in their speech patterns to retain those relationships intact in their Polish form.
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  Apr 26, 09, 10:10 /  #
Do you know what are graczki?
When you go to the gracz you need a ki to open the door.

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