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simonflaThreads: 5
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Joined: Feb 26, 11 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 19:28    #1
I was recently talking to a (Polish) girl in work and somehow the word "chimney" came into the conversation, at which point she started laughing, because it sounds "funny". Anybody have any words they thought sounded funny when they were/are learning english/polish? For me, I always thought "chciałbym" sounded funny. Dunno why.
SzwedwPolsceThreads: 13
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Joined: Feb 21, 09 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 19:37    #2
"Jako tako" (so-so)
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 19:39    #3
Chimney sounds a bit like the Polish word ciemny, meaning dark. There's also a good reason why Polish people find the English word cheaper quite funny..
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Joined: Feb 26, 11 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 19:41    #4
jonni:
There's also a good reason why Polish people find the English word cheaper quite funny..


Why's that?

(Sorry, my Polish is still at the horrendous stage)
jonniThreads: 26
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 19:44    #5
Sounds like cipa, which is a fairly mild word for part of the female anatomy.
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Joined: Feb 26, 11 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 19:45    #6
oh wait, i think i know. But even with an Irish accent? I can understand that with an English accent it sounds like that....
jonniThreads: 26
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		Edited by: jonni  Feb 27, 11, 19:46    #7
It does! But if you vocalise the final r it doesn't. Same with the surnames Pinder and Cooper. Meaning, respectively, the same body part, and turd.

Whatever the accent, the word web sounds like łeb, a horses head, and the first name Ria sounds like ryja, meaning snout. Roy can sound a bit like the Polish word for swarm, as in bees.
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Joined: Dec 7, 08  Pictures: 2 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 19:50    #8
simonfla:
Words that sound funny?????

kutafon, szmaciarz, zdzira, głąb, padalec , lodziara, małokutasiński
jonniThreads: 26
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		Edited by: jonni  Feb 27, 11, 19:52    #9
Puscidupa and klota can make people laugh too. Tresiportka too (one who shakes their kniockers). Also barłoźyć się. My ex used a (village slang) word once (about Renata Beger, who we met at a party) which means a woman who looks ok from a distance but a hag from close up. Wish I could remember it.

A Pole years ago told me never to say "Tea? Who you, yer bunny?" With good reason.
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Joined: May 1, 09 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 19:54    #10
Not exactly English words that sound funny in Polish but entire Japanese song and what it sounds like in Polish.
simonflaThreads: 5
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Joined: Feb 26, 11 ♂ 		Edited by: simonfla  Feb 27, 11, 20:01    #11
but what I mean is, this girl found the word chimney funny only because she found it funny to hear and say it, not because it sounded similar to some polish words.

jonni:
A Pole years ago told me never to say "Tea? Who you, yer bunny?" With good reason.


What does this mean?
wildroverThreads: 180
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Joined: Jun 7, 07 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 20:05    #12
I still remember telling a group of young girls i had bought a cheap car...

caused a few giggles....
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simonfla:
What does this mean?

Too obscene to translate...
isthatu2Threads: 13
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Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 20:11    #14
For some reason when I pronounced the word Wino above a booze shop the english way(which I thought was a funny name for an offy...) my friend nearly pee'd herself laughing......still baffled,something to do with a sore belly was all i got from her mime.....
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Joined: Nov 25, 08 ♂ [Suspended] 		 Feb 27, 11, 20:14    #15
jonni:
Too obscene to translate...


Very appropriate to say when stopped by the police for a minor traffic offence.
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Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 20:14    #16
simonfla:
I always thought "chciałbym" sounded funny

got to agree now I think about it.....does sound like a vocalisation of the after effects of drinking too much fizzy soda then vurping a little....
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Joined: Feb 26, 11 ♂ 		Edited by: simonfla  Feb 27, 11, 20:16    #17
jonni:
Too obscene to translate...


haha cool i'll wait for herself to get home from work :)

on a slightly different note, about 3 years ago when i started seeing my girl, she asked me to read "oczywiscie", which (as i'd had zero experience of reading polish) i pronounced as OK-SEE-WHY-SKI. now whenever we're in a conversation with other people about me learning Polish this story is ALWAYS brought up :)

Also, just thought i'd share this - I have awful trouble saying "do you want another drink" (ja wannanudder drink) after only 2-3 drinks
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simonfla:
ALWAYS brought up

for me its asking to see an old geezers breasts !!!!! ( "First" p.p diw badge :) )
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isthatu2:
( "First" p.p diw badge :) )


sorry isthatu2, i dont understand this :(
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The Polish for Breasts and First sound almost the same,one little letter difference :)
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Joined: May 1, 09 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 20:59    #21
Besides the ones that sound somewhat similar or close to ones native language the ones that are also very funny are the ones you can make literal translation into Polish or vice versa. For me words like (turtleneck, guerilla war) etc, at least that was the case when I was learning the language, but I imagine words like (samochód) to a native English speaker who is learning Polish language must also sound funny.
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actually here's another one........pociąg
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isthatu2:
For some reason when I pronounced the word Wino above a booze shop the english way(which I thought was a funny name for an offy...) my friend nearly pee'd herself laughing......still baffled,something to do with a sore belly was all i got from her mime.....


Łajno means dung!

A long time ago I tried to tell a rather grand old lady, a retired Central Commitee member's wife, that I was a Northerner, and coined the word Północnik. It doesn't exist, and if it did it would mean half a chamber pot.

simonfla:
actually here's another one........pociąg

As funny sounding as Obciągnąć (obchongnonch), which means to give a blow job.
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jonni:
As funny sounding as Obciągnąć (obchongnonch),


haha yeah actually, sounds asian not polish.

any more like that?

keep 'em coming!

also, any words people found funny when learning english?
jonniThreads: 26
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Feb 27, 11, 21:50    #25
Try barłoźyć się, to canoodle. The Poles are quite good at giving nicknames. There used to be a stern barmaid in one of the city pubs called Stalowa Podpaska, meaning Steel Jamrag.
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Joined: Jan 4, 11 ♂ 		Edited by: BBman  Feb 28, 11, 00:28    #26
Działało.

Sounds more Chinese than Polish.
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Joined: Feb 17, 09 ♀ 		Edited by: asik  Feb 28, 11, 01:07    #27
The name of princess-to be, Kate Middleton's sister Pippa . The name Pippa (comes from Philippa) in Polish means female genital organ-pipa with the same pronunciation.
It makes me laugh everytime I read or hear the name, which happens often lately :).
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Joined: Jul 4, 11 ♂ 		 Nov 6, 11, 20:51    #28
Me and my Polish mate were walking down a canal tow path. He asked me what a particular acquatic bird was wading on the surface of the canal.

I replied 'It's a swan'.

He burst out laughing - I had no idea why. He then explained that my pronunciation of 'swan' was exactly the same as 'słoń', meaning 'elephant'.

He just imagined an elephant swimming down the canal - it must have been an image!

Language is full of unexpected moments.
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Joined: Nov 16, 09 ♀ 		 Nov 6, 11, 20:54    #29
hahaha that reminds me years ago I toasted a Serbian drinking buddy with 'Slainte'.
'Why you say me small elephants?' he said, all confused. ;)
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rozumiemnic:
I toasted a Serbian drinking buddy with 'Slainte'.


Is that 'Slainte' Irish for Cheers?!

I'm half Irish and have heard loads of 'craic' (crack) over in the Emerald Isle....

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