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Kiełbasa and Pierogi are whole classes of products but in US kiełbasa is a particular kind of Polish sousage and pierogi basically means ruskie pierogi. That's
by ajuc 6y ago
Kiełbasa and Pierogi are whole classes of products but in US kiełbasa is a particular kind of Polish sousage and pierogi basically means ruskie pierogi.
That's how foreign languages work. In Polish "rower" means "a bicycle" because british company Rover sold them here first :) In Russian and Ukrainian vogzal means "train station" because there was a famous train station in Vauxhal :)
- NullPrefix 6y ago>In Russian and Ukrainian vogzal means "train station" because there was a famous train station in Vauxhal You can't be serious. Post proof.
- ajuc 6y agoThere's competing theories but all come from Vauxhall. Either train station or gardens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall#In_the_Russian_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall#In_the_Russian_langua...
- NullPrefix 6y agoThanks
- Metacelsus 6y ago>In Polish "rower" means "a bicycle" because british company Rover sold them here first Wait really?! I'm learning Polish and I was wondering about this.
- legerdemain 6y agoAnother fun one: the word for "marker" (i.e., a felt-tipped pen for drawing) is "фломастер," from the brand Flo-Master. Although, given the way things are going, it wouldn't surprise me if the word was now "шарпи." Surprisingly, the art supply brand Caran d'Ache is from the Russian "карандаш" and not vice versa. The Ukrainian for "pencil" simply comes from the word for the metal tin, which, like lead metal, was in use for styluses used in drawing before the discovery of graphite.
- ajuc 6y agoIn Polish: "flamaster" (thin marker for writing) vs "marker" (thick semitransparent marker for highlighting text). And pencil is "ołówek" (ołów = lead).