Anyone else here speak Polish?
I just need a little help with grammar and meaning of a few things.
First, what is the literal meaning of a word my father particularly loved:
Dupajas? I don't think it refers to a male donkey but has the same
connotations.
Second, how nasty exactly is (excuse the language) Psiakrew Cholera?
Third, the noun for thunder is "piorun" I think? When you put it into the
genitive case (example, in the movie title Agnes Of God, the "Of God" part is
genitive case) how would "of thunder" or "daughter of thunder" be rendered?
This is for my story, which God willing might get moving now as Louie slowly
recovers from his peanut butter evil. And as the Poles would say, dzien kuje!
(I think Stosh is getting this one though.)
Blessed be,
Baha
Kreisleriana - 27 Feb 2007 04:34 GMT
>Anyone else here speak Polish?
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>Blessed be,
>Baha
I only know the second one, because I had a friend with a
Polish-speaking grandmother. It means something like "May
you/he/she/it get cholera," and for Poles, it's a pretty serious
curse, although it's not what we would consider "obscene."
Theresa
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Baha - 27 Feb 2007 16:31 GMT
That was what I thought...when I was growing up it was pretty nasty. My
mother would clap me in the mouth if she ever caught me saying it; my father
usually was heard uttering this at political speeches and hockey games, when
he wasn't calling someone a dupajas.
Blessed be,
Baha
>>Anyone else here speak Polish?
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>Make Levees, Not War
Kreisleriana - 27 Feb 2007 18:18 GMT
>That was what I thought...when I was growing up it was pretty nasty. My
>mother would clap me in the mouth if she ever caught me saying it; my father
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>Blessed be,
>Baha
In Brooklyn, it seems to have been a standard thing for the older
folks to say about Hitler, Stalin, and Walter O'Malley
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Malley), so we knew it was
really bad. ;)
Theresa
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Make Levees, Not War