Poking tongue out at a Polish girl - is it considered rude/offensive?

The context is......I was right about something at work,and a Polish female workmate ( a good friend) was wrong.So when I got complimented by the boss,I stuck my tongue out at her,in a joking " Nana na nana" way.

She then muttered something at me in Polish ( it might have been " You wish",but I doubt that).And wouldn't speak to me for the rest of the day.

Did I offend her?,or was she just ticked at being wrong?.

Dont Worry Cod, Some people take being Wrong alittle harder then is needed!

the fastest way to find out is to ask her:)IMO






good job ADM

Hehe.I darent ask her! A slap in the face with a large dead fish hurts....a lot!

Oh well,a trip to the florist and the chocolate shop should help ;-)

That wont cut it, the only way to make ammense would be to confess she was right all along! :D


Joking.

if you buy them chocolates and flowers everytime they go in a huff, they will learn a valuable lesson on how to behave in order to get treats ha ha. just ignore her for a while too.

I just had to check whether or not the lady at work (not the most lady-like one ever) who does occasionally stick her tongue out at people, has caused either offense or 'the wrong idea' to someone Polish. Luckily, there's enough in common between the cultures when it comes to tongue-poking.

I did once hear that 'nyaa-nyaa-nya-nyaa-nyaa' (sometimes 'ner-ner-ne-ner-ner' and other variants) is assumed to have originated amongst the Romans. Where their empire never reached, the people either are unfamiliar with it, or have only historically recently been introduced.

Go on - treat yourself - you did the noble thing by asking us on the forum.

You should better fart.

You will find that women in generally do not like being proved wrong. When in your life has a woman ever said to you "I am sorry, my fault?" Women are always right be they Polish or not. Mind you, there are quite a lot of nasty ones in Poland and several have escaped on to this Forum too!

oh hello, i believe im one of these nasty Polish women! ahh, he only talks this way cos he had Polish chicks standing him up a lot. the old fart likes a bit of a rant every now and then, about how things are and how things should be.

Huuuuuuuuuge generalisation! There is nothing better in this life than to BE ABLE TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY! Goes for men even more!

exactly, i cant remember the last time i heard a bloke who would genuinely admit he was wrong and apologised. people like Michal who for some reason have issues with women and especially Polish women correcting their mistakes all the time should get over themselves and have some self-critisism, too.

I've noticed that!

And I regularly say "I'm sorry! It's my fault"...and I often end up saying it to my boyfriend. Being right is less important than being happy

Do you say this to him, even though you sometimes might be right, but he wouldn't accept that?

Well, I haven't run into that situation with him yet, he doesn't care about being right either (this is why I love him!) so it hasn't been an issue.
:)
We're both really good about respecting the other's opinion, and we both try hard to understand the other's point of view if we do disagree. So far, it's been very successful, and we've had some hard talks about subjects where we held very different opinions. I think we've had success because we're both willing to compromise. You can't compromise in every situation, some things you have to stand firm about. But I think in most situations you can find a middle ground...both people just have to be willing to look for it.

One more thing I forgot to add, really, it doesn't matter if you don't completely understand the other person's reasons for thinking it's your fault. A lot of times you just have to respect the fact the reasons they have are legitamite reasons for them-you don't have to understand those reasons for them to be legitamite. So, if my boyfriend was hurt by something I did, even if I thought it was silly and that I was in the right, I would still apologize. Sometimes it's better if it smooths things over. You just have to weigh whether or not your pride or reasoning for standing firm is worth the happiness in the relationship.

Surely you only poke your tongue out at someone you think will be good humoured enough to take it. If it turns out they're not, at least you should be able to say sorry you didn't mean to cause offense.

Ditto!