james

[u/Responsible_Team7360]

orga

[u/qualityvote2]

Good news, the community has decided that this IS an antimeme!

[u/Arsonoisy]

James is not even a Polish name

[u/kramsibbush → u/Arsonoisy]

Perhaps he is just speaking up against the generalization of Polish names.

[u/CornBread_God → u/Arsonoisy]

Well... Polish people can still name their kid James so in theory it works

[u/erkaska3 → u/CornBread_God]

So it's true, we have some James.

[u/satirelion → u/erkaska3]

Dad can i play my video james

[u/hotobamasex → u/erkaska3]

And pronounce it Dżames

[u/_JAKAMI → u/Arsonoisy]

it should be Jan

[u/National_Regret_3630]

guys the osama is the second image just swipe left

[u/naevus19 → u/National_Regret_3630]

[u/Then_Commission_4303]

"Michał" would be more accurate

[u/Nix_Scribe]

Organization right below this post lol

[u/Random_Word1984 → u/Nix_Scribe]

just because polish orthography looks odd, that doesn't mean that polish names are 'random' or hard to pronounce lol

[u/FoliarzZOdludzia → u/Random_Word1984]

Yup. Unlike English, when you see a word you know how it is pronounced, because letters make the same or very similiar sound all the time (with the exception of two-signs, like cz or sz, but even English has these in the form of ch and sh). Like, you wont have a situation where every "C" in a phrase is spelled differently ("Pacific Ocean"). Also most if not all vowels are pronounced the "short" way

[u/Late_Sort1763 → u/Random_Word1984]

I used to teach Polish as a second language. Frankly, spelling and pronunciation are pretty easy to get over with for most.

The grammar, on the other hand, is absolutely diabolical.

[u/JANEK_SZ1]

Fun fact: the names are complicated, but creating an own name instead of choosing an existing one is seen as extremely unusual.

[u/Agreeable_Pea5093]

[u/Worried_Dot_4618]

ah yes famous Slavic name James

[u/FriendlySpoons]

i mean, they only chose the first name, which isn't that bad. the last name though...

[u/AcceptableBuy4049]

Not every name is like that.

You could have idk, Jan Bernard or something

[u/therelhuman]

where's grzegorz brzęczyszczykiewicz

[u/MangaNeko13]

In Polish, James would be Jakub. Yes, now we borrow more English names, but that types of names still feel foreign.

[u/MangaNeko13]

Świętosław Szczypiorczykowski - "świeto-" from "holiday" or "holy", "-sław" come from "praisingg", so Świętosław is someone praising the holiness... "szczypior" is "chives".

Easy, understandable. So, can someone tell me about etymology of names from their country?

[u/LucifersExBf]

Osiris?

Edit: yeah alright

[u/Tiger_man_ → u/LucifersExBf]

grzegorz brzęczyszczykiewicz

[u/sexy_latias → u/Tiger_man_]

Chrząszczydrzewoszyce, powiat Łękołody

[u/Responsible_Team7360 → u/sexy_latias]

świętosławszczypiorczykowski

[u/sexy_latias → u/Responsible_Team7360]

No, you just combined the name with surname, what we wrote are real city names

[u/Inevitable-Alps-7657 → u/sexy_latias]

Not really, they’re fictional

[u/sexy_latias → u/Inevitable-Alps-7657]

Yes but plausible

[u/Responsible_Team7360 → u/sexy_latias]

ok i was stupid mb

[u/sexy_latias → u/Responsible_Team7360]

Ok

[u/Abzor4ik-UA → u/[deleted]]

Second image

[u/johanni30 → u/[deleted]]

Wipe