What I think the English language is really lacking are proper diminutives and augmentatives. All you have is stuff like cat -> kitty or lord -> overlord. As a polish speaker, this sucks ass. Our diminutives and augmentatives are MUCH more expressive and y'all are really missing out. We can diminutivise words until they become nearly unintelligible. Example:
1. kot (cat)
2. kotek (kitty)
3. koteczek (smaller/cuter kitty)
4. koteczuniek (even more)
5. kotesiunieczek (holy shit)
Not only that, but we can also diminutivise adjectives, verbs, pronouns and adverbs. You can cuteify the adjective "cute"!
More linguistic yapping:
That is, because not only do we include the process of deminutiva sensu stricto, which is your average diminutive, but we also make use of hypocorisms (the process of pet-name-ification) in a much wider area of speech. The diminutive can also be used in a demeaning way and that is actually, factually a separate type of diminutive!
Not only that, but because of, yknow, the way language is used, often words which were already diminutives have replaced its root word in degree of usage, which led to NEW diminutives being created for these diminutives!
An example could be the word książka, as in book. It came from diminutivising the word księga, but soon the roles reversed and książka became the root word, with księga being treated as an augmentative. That meant, however, that książka still needed a further diminutive - that's how książeczka came to life.
I could write an entire article about it but I'll spare myself the work lol this is me exposing myself as a linguist
What did she sayyyyy #polishlanguage #killingeve #polish #polishculture #britishpolish #englishpolish #polishlanguageiseasy #translation #translationfail
Proof that America doesn't care about slavic people at all. We should make like a whole YT channel just for reacting to this bullshit.
I am a native Polish speaker, I live in Poland, and I have no idea what that woman said. I only understood "in this country" (w tym kraju) and very botchered down "hurt" (zranić).
I wanna speak with the person who made that woman say this gibberish and ask them if they would understand fkfkgjcjt t vjdjg in english. Because I bet they wouldn't.
Hello, langblr, I would like to treat you with the lamest Slovak wordplay, so simple and therefore so popular, which has been performed in almost all the toilets across Slovakia.
It's based on the word je (pronounce 'ye'), which has two meanings:
1. It's the 3rd person singular of the word byť, which means 'to be'.
2. It's also the 3rd person singular of the word jesť, which means 'to eat'.
So when you knock on the door of the toilet and ask "Je tu niekto?" ="Is anyone here?" and the person answers "Kto by tu jedol?" = "Who would eat here?", you don't want them in your life.
I hope it's all clear and unerstandable. Thank you for your attention.
There are so few Ukrainian learners on this site (or at least it seems so) that I decided to make a kind of network? Let me know if you're learning (and post about) the language so we could find and maybe help each other.
Spread the word and reblog please!
