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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 4 19 February 2009 at 11:23am | IP Logged |
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From todays Irish Times,
Dictionary helps crack case of notorious Polish serial offender 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 2 of 4 19 February 2009 at 2:11pm | IP Logged |
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It shows the relative obscurity of Polish, that Prawo Jazdy could be mistaken for someone's name.
Mind you, it is amazing how much ignorance there is out there generally. I knew someone who ordered items from a US Christian mail order firm, using the pseudonym "Vladimir I. Bolshevik". They wrote back to him, addressing him as "Mr. Bolshevik". 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 3 of 4 19 February 2009 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
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I wonder how long it'll be, before the story is picked up by the Polish press,
"Znasz dowcip o irlandzkich policjantach?" Do you know the joke about the Irish policeman? [EDIT 20/02/09 - Corrected the Polish, and the English translation. Thanks Chung.] Edited by DaraghM on 20 February 2009 at 11:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 4 of 4 19 February 2009 at 5:10pm | IP Logged |
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It's both funny and sad for me. It reminds me a tiny bit about outsiders' ignorance of the word "Kaur" in Punjabi. Every Sikh female's name is supposed to include "Kaur" meaning "princess" as a middle or last name for religious reasons. It's got to the point where it acts as a marker of gender and it's almost meaningless as a marker of distinguishing Sikh females among themselves since perusing a list of Sikh names will yield numerous women whose names include "Kaur".
For the Polish sentence, I would say: "Znasz dowcip o irlandzkich policjantach?" 1 person has voted this message useful |
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