Sep 11, 2016
Tricky West Slavic Sisters
As you langblrs may already know, Czech, Slovak and Polish form a part of the West Slavic language family. Polish, along with Kashubian and Silesian, belongs to the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, while Czech and Slovak belong to the Czech-Slovak subgroup. (The third subgroup is the Sorbian languages group).
Though they are West Slavic, some sentences with cognates of a high degree of similarity can have two entirely different meanings. Just read on and you’ll see:
“Szukam was na zachodzie!” (Polish) (“I am looking for you in the West.”)
“Šukám vás na záchodě!” (Czech) (“I’m f***ing you in the toilet.”)