Your Funniest / Strangest / Sadest Moments with the Polish Language

Isn't the Czech word for west (or is it east) remarkably similar to a Polish word for toilet?
Or is it the other way round? Or is someone pulling one of my legs?

maybe rather one of your ears? that's why you can't remember that well - couldn't hear so well at the time ;)

I'd have thought your floppy ears would be more likely to stop the sound getting through.

Warning: let's not go off-topic. That way, the world will enjoy these humourous anecdotes and maybe even learn something from some of these cautionary tales.

:) sounds like you're praising a master's thesis osiol - i feel honoured... and i'm half asleep. dobranoc

but yes, let's not go off topic!

My brother and I grew up with a Polish dad who loved using Polish adjectives and nouns mingled with English sentences - I'm sure soem of you will have a parent like that. Little did we know that the Polish words he used were the vulgar ones.

My brother went to Poland a few years ago and stayed with our relatives (quite conservative apparently). He thought he'd be smart and use those Polish words my dad had ingrained in our heads - he didnt really know any others. So when my brother wanted to use the toilet, he asked where's the "srutch??" which he found out after all these years means "shithouse".

It was pretty windy, so he proudly said "it's pizdzy??" which translated to something like farting.

He had a few more shockers like that. My bro said he'd never been so embarrassed in his life. My dad just laughed wehen he heard about it - bastard!

lol, funny stuffy ozi! you're father is/was a funny man!

when learning English the way I could remember the word "because" was think of "bigos" - its the famous polish cabbige.

and when in Poland instead of using the word "utrwalacz " eg: utrwalacz w żywności. eg preservatives in food.
I used the word "prezerwatywa" (that word in polish means condom ). he he he

some funny mo's here :P

there is a word 'dziewka" in Polish (rather old fashioned, still may be used in some dialects but I'm not sure) and it means 'a girl'. probably it's not used in standard polish anymore because of the similarity to the insulting 'dziwka'

I am tempted to ask if this cross-reference came as a result of czech girls' morals.

hehe, I have no idea:)

Now my bf with his logick thinking decided that shoping in Polish must be sklepping and that becouse he remembers that shop in Polish is sklep so he thinks that is the same way like in English.

shopping-zakupy

this is brilliant! hubby had such a laugh!

Two meanings I know about:

- a young girl who works as a servant for a farmer
- a morally unscrupulous woman. OK, a wh.ore :)

I'm unaware of the usage of the word in Polish that would mean "girl", although its diminutive form (dzieweczka) has no pejorative undertones and it means "young girl".

i did something stupid, when i was talking instead of saying im cooking, i said im eating someone, it was really imbarassing!

lol - happens to all of us - these silly things :P