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Well it took me borrowing one video game to learn that lesson. "No, you must've borrowed it to someone else" when I asked. First game I bought for my own pocke
by adql 4y ago
Well it took me borrowing one video game to learn that lesson. "No, you must've borrowed it to someone else" when I asked.
First game I bought for my own pocket money, which at time, in Poland, was a lot for a kid as it was full price title, Baldur's Gate 1 in nice box with manual and a map, and dubbed gloriously with then-radio/TV stars, hell, the narrator voice was better than original. Needless to say I was pretty salty.
- richthegeek 4y agopożyczyć is both borrow and lend :) In English there's a difference of direction. "Kuba pożyczył moj długopis" - Jakub borrowed my pen "Kuba pożyczył mi jego długopos" - Jakub lent me his pen I'm learning Polish slowly, living in Warsaw...
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- traceroute66 4y ago> "Kuba pożyczył moj długopis" Surely a true Pole would say "kurwa Kuba pożyczył moj pierdolic długopis" ? ;-)
- richthegeek 4y agoNo true Pole?
- traceroute66 4y agoWhat about Poles on poles ? (Point taken, capital inserted on original post)
- waterhouse 4y agoLolz. I don't know Polish, but Google Translate renders these as "Kuba borrowed my pen" and "fucking Kuba borrowed my fucking pen" respectively.
- traceroute66 4y ago> Lolz. I don't know Polish, but Google Translate renders these as Yes, that's kind of the point. Sort of a Polish in-joke I guess. For an English language background on the power of "kurwa" and "pierdolic", I recommend these YouTube videos: Kurwa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWlspF3B2M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWlspF3B2M Pierdolic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTgT-IU--zM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTgT-IU--zM
- KptMarchewa 4y agoadd "jebany chuj" and would be close
- aitchnyu 4y agoHindi has same word for yesterday and tomorrow, so you have to figure out from the tense and context which it is.
- gowld 4y agoYou are a howling jay! How can you go tomorrow and get back again today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdEkm__55ik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdEkm__55ik
- selimthegrim 4y ago“guzishta kal”
- neogodless 4y agoOnly for your edification, as your English is 1/0 (infinitely) better than my Polish. I believe you meant "lending / lent" in place of "borrowing / borrowed." We separate the words, so "to borrow" is to temporarily take the item, "to lend" is to temporarily give the item.
- gamegoblin 4y agoIn Spanish they are the same word also -- "alquilar" -- "to rent" and "to rent out". Do any linguistics geeks reading have a word I can google for this phenomenon? That is, a word that means something like "a word or phrase that is bidirectional in one language but part of a unidirectional pair in another"
- itsthejb 4y agoDitto in German. One of those rare times English is more specific!
- techdmn 4y agoAlso in Minnesota! (I'm joshing you Minnesotans, it's a lovely state full of wonderful people. I'll borrow you whatever you need any time. ;-p )
- gamegoblin 4y agoI wonder if this is due to the language that whatever large immigrant populations in Minnesota spoke. I know Minnesota had a lot of Northern European immigrants, and another commenter in this thread says German doesn't distinguish borrow/lend.
- zamfi 4y agoI don't have an answer but English LOVES preposition-attached verbs. You can use lent and borrowed in both directions (I lent X to him; he lent X to me -- I borrowed X from him; he borrowed X from me) so the main difference is not in whether the verbs can be used bidirectionally, but in how you indicate the direction. I suspect Spanish (and maybe Polish) disambiguate in different ways, but disambiguate I'm sure they do!
- kubb 4y agoI lent about $25 to someone when I was in college. It was a lot of money for me at the time, you could buy 5 day's worth of food with it or pay 1/5th of the rent for my room (yeah, some places in Europe were really cheap in the aughts). He promised that he would pay me back. After a while he asked me for some more money, about $5 and swore he'd pay back really soon. I was so shocked that I broke all contact with that guy and never saw him again.
- AceJohnny2 4y agoThere's a difference. As the quote goes: "don't loan something you can't afford to lose". Carmack, it seems, was comfortable with not being paid back.
- maccard 4y ago> Carmack, it seems, was comfortable with not being paid back. That's not how I read the tweet, at all. > It was a learning experience for me, calibrating some general people behavior. I don’t think anyone intended to not pay me back, but things often just don’t work out the way you plan
- gowld 4y agoHow do you read the tweet? It seems pretty clear that he knew that getting paid back wasn't very highly probable, and he learned about how recipients handle that.
- fragmede 4y agoMore to the point, Carmack was comfortable - had a house and was able to put food on the table for his loved ones - without being paid back. It's possible that, contrary to what that tweet says, Carmack demanded (his) money (back). By Western measures, however, he's still comfortable without being paid back.
- hjm 4y ago>It's possible that, contrary to what that tweet says, Carmack demanded (his) money (back) Nah, he's not like that.
- AceJohnny2 4y agoAh yes, on second read, your interpretation seems better. Decades of practice and I feel like my reading comprehension just gets worse :(
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- eutropia 4y agoCD Projekt Red's original great work: bringing Baldur's Gate to Poland. :)
- amalgamated_inc 4y agoBaldur's Gate was amazing!