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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago

Doesn't Lithuanian have tonal components? That has to be worst then Polish.

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz z Chrząszczyżewoszyce powiat Łękołody.

[–] spamspeicher@feddit.org 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Did you see all the Zs in there? They're obviously talking in their sleep.

[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Kinda weird to isolate Polish when Hungarian, Finnish and Basque are actually all their own distinct language families.

Polish actually isn't in a distinct language family and shares a lot with other western Slavic languages like Czech, and Slavic languages in general.

[–] Redfox8@mander.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, my first thought was, isn't Hungarian far more complex/different. Also, Icelandic is meant to be very difficult to learn too!

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Maybe it's because it was in the same language group as those others that polish got singled out. People who speak an Indo European language will expect to be lost when first trying to learn a language outside of the group, but might not expect to be so confuddled from a related language. Expectations basically.

[–] TAG@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Polish is a Slavic language written out using Latin letters.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

Would be so much shorter with a щ

[–] Fleur_@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me, a non European who only speaks english, so true

[–] awholenewworld@leminal.space 1 points 19 hours ago

Haha yeah I get it.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I don't think you could get the speakers of all the European languages to agree on which one is normal.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Sure you can everyone in france know theirs is the only real language. Don't believe me? Just ask someone from france.

but we can all agree hungarian isn't

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has to be French right?

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Inappropriate use of vowels, 10 yard penalty for the defense

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

10 yard penalty for the defense

We don't know what that means. Can you please talk european?

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

You could if we had won. /s

[–] MrSilkworm@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

*cries at Greek

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We used to have a server at my university which a polish guy set up. It received the name brzeczyszczykiewich. We decided that the server was secure enough by name, so we only put a trivial password on it for remote connection.

[–] MrKurteous@feddit.nu 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you sure it wasn't "brzeczyszczykiewicz" (difference in last two letters)? Otherwise it seems like a little typo, which, to be fair, would be a good idea to keep it safe from Polish people haha

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

I'm completely sure, like 100%, fully positive without a single doubt... that I misspelled it and I would never be able to access the server again.

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can we also get some translation or something. This might shock you, but not all of us are polish.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Whew. Good. I thought it was just me.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

There is no translation, it's just a hard to pronounce Polish surname.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 215 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

Be Polish. Live at the crossroads of three major continental zones. Incorporates traditions from Arabic, Latin, and Nordic languages into a unique synthesis. Everybody hates it. Nobody wants to speak it.

Be English. Live at the ass end of nowhere, and become a haven for vagrants, dissidents, pirates, and exiles. Incorporate traditions from Latin, Germanic, and Frankish languages into a unique synthesis. Everyone hates it. Nobody wants to speak it. Become worlds most spoken language anyway.

Moral of the story. People will have to learn your shitty incoherent language if you build a big enough navy.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago

Be Lithuanian. Get culturally dominated by Poland. Refuse to speak Polish anyway. Refuse influence from any language. Remove loan words, replace them with newly made Baltic sounding ones. End up impossible to learn.

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