• @xye@lemm.ee
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    293 months ago

    Polish jokes are a reflection of imperialist propaganda, imported and spread through American xenophobia. This is funny, I just also like history

    • @TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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      203 months ago

      I’m just now realizing that “pole” does not mean a metal cylindrical object and, infact, is a group of people living in Poland

      • KSP Atlas
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        73 months ago

        I’ve always kinda disliked the name Pole for that reason, but it is what it is

      • @Soggy@lemmy.world
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        63 months ago

        We used to say “Polack” but only in a derogatory way because people arw terrible.

      • @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        103 months ago

        I can’t speak to the opinions of the Polish people, but I’d imagine that’s considered an upgrade from when the jokes were largely about them being bafflingly stupid.

      • @Gutek8134@lemmy.world
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        43 months ago

        I thought I had a meme about Polish people doing Florida man stuff, but I didn’t

        The only one I remember is this story

        Accept this kurwa as a substitute: KURWA

    • Omega
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      13 months ago

      Polish is easier to read when written in Cyrillic, but apparently native poles don’t like that idea. Why not invent your own alphabet or Atleast bring over some Cyrillic phonology for specific letters?

      • @Rooty@lemmy.world
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        53 months ago

        The Czechs and Croats solved this problem by adding Č,Ć,Đ,Ž,Š and DŽ letters, while Poles continued to use letters ill suited for writing down sounds unique to slavic languages.

        • @shneancy@lemmy.world
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          23 months ago

          i don’t get it, we also added some new letters (ą, ę, ś, ć, etc.), and some digraphs (sz, cz, rz, ch, etc.). how is it different from what Czechs and Croats did?

        • Omega
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          13 months ago

          Polish reminds me of Korean Romanization where you twist entire words into weird structures so Brits and Americans don’t mispronounce it, except it’s the entire language and even the natives deal with it (funny)

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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          13 months ago

          Virgin Roman script: The pronunciation differs depending on the word

          Chad Devanagari script: It is pronounced exactly how it is written.