Hejka - a trendy youth greeting in Poland?

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Dec 4, 11, 11:18 #1

I've just learnt from Prof. Miodek's TV show on language that hejka is a trendy youth greeting. Are you fmailiar with it? Do you yourself use it? It seems to be the addition of the suffix
-ka to the hippie-era hej. Miodek also noted that English sorry had mutated into sorki and sorka. According to some of the young people in Warsaw interviewed on the show, some said hejka was used mainly towards girls. Do you garee?

MagdalenaThreads: 5 Posts: 1,389 Joined: Aug 15, 07 ♀	Dec 4, 11, 12:26 #2
Hejka and sorki have been around for literally ages... Why don't you get in touch with some Polish teenagers and talk to them directly? They would be the ones to tell you what's really trendy.

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Dec 4, 11, 12:33 #3
I don't 'garee', no. Is it a dance? I agree with Magda. Hejka is not so new.

TheSosnaThreads: 1 Posts: 7 Joined: Dec 3, 11 ♂	Dec 4, 11, 14:04 #4
I'm teenager, and IMHO 'hejka' is a bit, you know, stupid. For sure, it's not trendy. I would recommend you to greet your friends by saying 'siema'. It's the best youth greeting. And to say goodbye use 'nara', 'narka' or 'na razie'. If you would like to learn some polish either informal or formal words, write to my email ;)

smurfThreads: 46 Posts: 660 Joined: Sep 8, 09 ♂	Dec 4, 11, 17:42 #5
The thing I don't get is that I hear people saying it as a way of saying goodbye, now I realise that it's because czesc is one word to use for both hi and goodbye, but saying hej as a way of saying goodbye is something I don't think I'll ever get into the practice of saying. I do say it as a hi though, but that's coz back at home I used to too.

mafketisThreads: 17 Posts: 1,880 Joined: Mar 31, 08 ♂	Dec 4, 11, 17:47 #6
smurf: The thing I don't get is that I hear people saying it as a way of saying goodbye In my experience hej has always been more common as a leave taking expression rather than a greeting. I assume the same would go for hejka. The expression I hate, hate, HATE is 'do zobaczyska' .....

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Dec 4, 11, 17:52 #7

mafketis:

In my experience hej has always been more common as a leave taking expression rather than a greeting. I assume the same would go for hejka.

yea, mostly I've heard it as that, sometimes as a greeting tho. Which is a bit weird as I can only presume that it comes from the Americanism of saying "hey" for "hi" As I said I used to use it in Ireland too....I blame the influence of such crap tv as Friends & Scrubs.

mafketis:

do zobaczyska

I can honestly say I don't even attempt to say that as it's far too difficult to pronounce.

gumishuThreads: 17 Posts: 3,943 Joined: Apr 6, 09 ♂	Dec 5, 11, 14:16 #8
smurf: mafketis: do zobaczyska I can honestly say I don't even attempt to say that as it's far too difficult to pronounce. one of the easier words to pronounce in Polish - should be no problem for an English person to repeat it after hearing it - run it through www.ivona.com and you'll see

SteveramsfanThreads: 2 Posts: 401 Joined: Nov 22, 09 ♂	Dec 5, 11, 14:20 #9
Polonius3 My Polish Grammer book thats 15 years old has 'Hej' in as Hi. It says nothing about it being used as goodbye. My Girlfriend and Ex girlfriend use 'Hej' at the start of emails.

WroclawThreads: 77 Posts: 7,404 Joined: Apr 1, 06 ♂ [Moderator]	Dec 6, 11, 16:55 #10
Steveramsfan: It says nothing about it being used as goodbye. i use 'hej' 'no hej' and have been doing so for more than twenty years.

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