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It's not just German. Language groups around the world are struggling to fit English vocabularly into their language. My favorite English borrowing into Polish
by ElevenLathe 4y ago
It's not just German. Language groups around the world are struggling to fit English vocabularly into their language. My favorite English borrowing into Polish is probably kolesław (pronounced something like COAL-eh-suave) for coleslaw, but there are so many that it's hard to choose. Poles in Chicago decline "Milwaukee" (the street) as if it were a Polish plural ("na Milwaukach"). I'm fairly OK in Polish but still find it impossible to pronounce "cheeseburger" the way they do in Poland.
- EdSchouten 4y agoWhich is funny, because coleslaw itself is borrowed from Dutch (koolsla).
- mietek 4y agoThe funniest thing about „kolesław” is that the suffix makes it sound like a traditional Slavic first name: Bogusław, Jarosław, Mirosław, Stanisław, Władysław… https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imiona_słowiańskie#Imiona_złożone_(dwuczłonowe) https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imiona_słowiańskie#Imiona_złoż...