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Post by Bonobo on Jan 12, 2020 13:52:31 GMT 1
I mean other words than cliched idiot, moron etc. Pustak - hollow brick, breeze block. It refers to "hollow" people, often girls, who know nothing and have zero interests and intellect. But they can be good looking.  My school is like a construction site - full of breeze blocks.  |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 6, 2020 14:20:33 GMT 1
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 8, 2020 22:32:51 GMT 1
Pustak - hollow brick, breeze block. It refers to "hollow" people, often girls, who know nothing and have zero interests and intellect. But they can be good looking. Yes, typically they are known as airheads. I vaguely remember that calling someone a gołąb is insulting. Not sure it refers to idiot though. Of course I know it means pigeon. |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 10, 2020 0:32:19 GMT 1
Airheads? I google it and get a chewy candy....  Gołąb? Nope, it is nothing insulting. Quite the opposite - pigeons are harmless birds. But you reminded me of another idiom. |
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 26, 2020 23:03:46 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 27, 2020 14:55:43 GMT 1
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Post by naukowiec on Feb 29, 2020 20:03:57 GMT 1
It is a new one, was voted the Youth Word of the Year 2018. It is surprising what catches on in language. I'll never understand some of it. For years over here the word 'sick' has been in commom use to mean 'awesome' or 'cool'. I'm still under the impression it means to not feel very well, or to throw up........ |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 1, 2020 22:09:56 GMT 1
For years over here the word 'sick' has been in commom use to mean 'awesome' or 'cool'. I Wow, another novelty. I have never come across that meaning, neither in textbooks nor in songs or films. If it bore another meaning than ill/nauseatic, it was pervert/crazy. Remember that scene from Dumb and Dumber: Who are these sick people? (they sold a dead parrot to a blind boy). |
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Post by naukowiec on Mar 3, 2020 20:49:53 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 5, 2020 12:24:38 GMT 1
Exactly! But here's what I mean: I haven't actually seen the film. Aaah, but it is slang, not even colloquial speech. I don`t deal with slang on the daily basis in my work, only on fora. |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 5, 2020 12:26:22 GMT 1
Exactly! But here's what I mean: I haven't actually seen the film. Aaah, but it is slang, not even colloquial speech. I don`t deal with slang on the daily basis in my work, only on fora. |
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Post by jeanne on Mar 12, 2020 20:10:30 GMT 1
It is a new one, was voted the Youth Word of the Year 2018. It is surprising what catches on in language. I'll never understand some of it. For years over here the word 'sick' has been in commom use to mean 'awesome' or 'cool'. I'm still under the impression it means to not feel very well, or to throw up........ Young people in my area of the U.S. (not sure about the rest of the country) still use "sick" to mean awesome or cool. When I was working in the high school, it was a fairly new usage of the word, and I just could not get used to hearing someone refer to another person as "sick," and I felt that poor person was being insulted when actually, the opposite was true! |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 21, 2020 10:30:12 GMT 1
and I just could not get used to hearing someone refer to another person as "sick," and I felt that poor person was being insulted when actually, the opposite was true! Funny! I am trying to recall such new vocabulary misunderstandings in Polish but can`t. |
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Post by jeanne on Mar 21, 2020 14:53:17 GMT 1
and I just could not get used to hearing someone refer to another person as "sick," and I felt that poor person was being insulted when actually, the opposite was true! Funny! I am trying to recall such new vocabulary misunderstandings in Polish but can`t. You will come up with something, I'm sure! Working in a high school, you must hear all the current slang (and more!). |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 22, 2020 13:14:50 GMT 1
Yes, I found it, during the mass today. I thought of old times when the plague troubled people and they called it morowy - pestilential. Pestilential air.
A few decades ago morowy was used as your sick - cool. I still see it in old books from 20th century. Now it is largely gone.
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Post by jeanne on Mar 22, 2020 23:30:05 GMT 1
Yes, I found it, during the mass today. I thought of old times when the plague troubled people and they called it morowy - pestilential. Pestilential air. A few decades ago morowy was used as your sick - cool. I still see it in old books from 20th century. Now it is largely gone. Wow...somehow "morowy" or "pestilential" sounds really more intense than "sick;" by comparison sick seems common, banal, and unimaginative. Leave it to the Poles to outdo the Americans in the slang department!  p.s. Is this all you came up with at Mass today? Any deep thoughts on the man born blind? |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 23, 2020 11:29:25 GMT 1
Leave it to the Poles to outdo the Americans in the slang department! p.s. Is this all you came up with at Mass today? Any deep thoughts on the man born blind? hahaha Yes, but it is interesting it gradually disappeared. If I used it on my students, they wouldn`t understand. My kids know it from books I read to them. Or read on their own - I remember it is used in Petit Nicolas stories from 1950/60s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Petit_NicolasBlind man? Deep thoughts? Of course, physical blindness was a metaphor.
39 Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains. |
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Post by jeanne on Mar 23, 2020 12:10:04 GMT 1
Blind man? Deep thoughts? Of course, physical blindness was a metaphor.
39 Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.[/a][/i][/quote] Good...'just wanted to make sure you were paying attention and not just thinking about posts for the forum!  |
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