The Slavic languages are interesting but I don’t know a lot about them. It must be amusing to be aware of the various levels of mutual intelligibility. Do you know any jokes Eastern Europeans make about this among themselves?
Lovely. I used to have a Ukrainian coworker and she overheard me use the word ‘zoeken’ (search) and she thought I was swearing as I didn’t pronounce the ‘n’ strongly
My native language is a Slavic one but I can’t fucking learn Polish because the language is just too fucking funny to me.
It’s like how English speakers think Dutch is funny but turned up to 11.
The Slavic languages are interesting but I don’t know a lot about them. It must be amusing to be aware of the various levels of mutual intelligibility. Do you know any jokes Eastern Europeans make about this among themselves?
The one reason that Polish is so funny to me is the amount of homophones between it and my native language with vastly different meanings.
One of the funniest being:
Szukać - To look for (Polish)
Šukať - To fuck (Slovak, improper/slang)
Both pronounced the same way.
Lovely. I used to have a Ukrainian coworker and she overheard me use the word ‘zoeken’ (search) and she thought I was swearing as I didn’t pronounce the ‘n’ strongly