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22 September 2008
Guess who has teh internet at teh house in teh Poland!
Daniel Charms, if I catch any of my younger students saying the k-word, it's, like, over. OVER. Apparently it's way, way worse than dropping the f-bomb. Eep!
Apparently it's way, way worse than dropping the f-bomb.
I live in an area with lots of Poles, and I hear it a lot. I had to tell a shopkeeper off last week for saying it to an employee in earshot of the customers. Nasty. I've also told a cafe owner off for calling his (Polish) barista a malaka - swearing at your employees is not cool, in whatever language.
Ah, didn't read down, taz. If you ever experience the Polish commercial sector, you'll see that it is indeed a common and useful expression.
"Nie ma," (We don't have it) is also a typical shop expression, and a true Pole is able to use special powers of disdain to make it have the functional equivalence of "fuck off".
Hm, I had a really nice "nie ma" experience yesterday when I asked for pierogi ruski (omg pierogi!) at a milk bar and was told by the, in the words of my British co-lunch-eater, "manageress" that all they had were pierogi serem! It was like a giant bomb of sugar landed on my face. I am still full 13 hours later.
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