espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani
| Message 33 of 50 01 December 2011 at 10:54pm | IP Logged |
What would be the highbrow, high-register way to call a whore/bitch? For example, if you're discussing a movie that has a stereotypical character who fits this description perfectly?
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H.Computatralis Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 6305 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Polish*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Latin
| Message 34 of 50 02 December 2011 at 8:46am | IP Logged |
lit. prostitute = prostytutka
spiteful woman = jędza
sexually promiscuous woman = ladacznica
Edited by H.Computatralis on 02 December 2011 at 8:56am
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espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani
| Message 35 of 50 02 December 2011 at 9:43am | IP Logged |
Does bladź have a wide usage? The Russian version, блядь, is used pretty much the same way as kurwa (in its literal meaning as well as a "comma" in spoken language) and just as frequently.
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H.Computatralis Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 6305 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Polish*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Latin
| Message 36 of 50 02 December 2011 at 10:08am | IP Logged |
No, not at all. I had never seen it before and had to look it up. It must be very dialectal or archaic if it's used at all.
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Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4825 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin
| Message 37 of 50 02 December 2011 at 3:58pm | IP Logged |
H.Computatralis wrote:
When used as a noun complement it can only be applied to women (=whore, bitch). The
male analogue is "fiut" (=dick, jerk). Of course, all of this belongs to the vulgar register. |
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I know, it's the gender transgression that made it funny. Besides, insults reserved for women are always harsher (in
any language, I suppose) than those reserved for men, which just exemplifies sexism of course. In English, for
instance, calling a woman a bitch and calling a man a jerk doesn't have the same implications, so I wouldn't mind
calling a man a bitch if he was being one (although I don't use that kind of language...). It's the same in french
(salope vs salopard = completely different level of vulgarity) and, from what I gather, in polish (kurwa vs fiut).
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Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5567 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish
| Message 38 of 50 05 December 2011 at 5:59am | IP Logged |
So if we could perhaps return to the theme of the original post now that all that kurwa stuff appears to be done with
and give some more reasons for why people like the language and what keeps them motivated, inspired and
enjoying the process of learning it, that would be świetny (great).
Dziękuję bardzo.
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pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5729 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian
| Message 39 of 50 05 December 2011 at 9:25am | IP Logged |
Vos wrote:
So if we could perhaps return to the theme of the original post now that all that kurwa stuff appears to be done with
and give some more reasons for why people like the language and what keeps them motivated, inspired and
enjoying the process of learning it, that would be świetny (great).
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I'll be glad to read what people like about learning Polish so I concur.
Just a small correction though. It should be świetnie instead świetny (refers to masculine nouns). That would be świetnie = byłoby świetnie.
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Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4825 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin
| Message 40 of 50 05 December 2011 at 3:43pm | IP Logged |
I like that it's very expressive because of the R and the "schh" sounds. Also, ever since I was a child, the letter K was
my favourite (I was a geek), and there's a lot of it in polish!
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