Does anyone speak polish- fluently..

lauren grier

lauren grier

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This is totally random.. My dads family is polish- anyway, my aunt (who passed) was the only one left in the family that really spoke any polish.. as a kid growing up I picked up a few things here and there (like a polish lullabye that I have NO idea what it means lol) as did my mother-- anyway... there's one thing that she (mom) says all the time- and ce has subsequently picked up but no one knows what it means.. I couldn't even BEGIN to try to spell it .. but it sounds like "buozjha" Anyone have ANY idea? my mom uses it affectionately.. like to the dogs and to ce lol.. so hopefully it doesn't mean like "you are a fat cow" or something you know :p
 
I'm talking to myself-- and am pretty sure no one will respond, but I'm doing so anyway..

I did find some people call grandma busia-- but this is NOT the word.. plus we used the proper babcia .. so I dunno. It is VERY possible that my mom is totally butchering the word as well.. lol as well.. she's irish/frenchie not polish :p
 
it def has that.. dza polish sound in it though.. not a sh.. well again, at least the way my mom is saying it :p
 
La - i don't speak polish - but my cleaning lady does and she comes in the morning - LOL ... if you don't have an answer by then, i'll ask her :)
 
My Ukrainian grandmother used a word all the time (mostly she called my father it, LOL) and I asked some Russian women what it was and they were not sure but said they believe it wasn't good. I want to find out what that is, someday. Maybe I should google it, but I am not sure how to spell it. My grandmother when she would get mad would start talking in Ukrainian. It was hilarious. My mother used to know how to speak it when she was little, but doesn't remember any of it now. Which is sad, cause I would have loved to have learned it.
 
same with my dad.. he use to know a lot more (obv as my aunt the one who spoke it a lot was his sister lol).. but he just didn't hold onto it.

we do have like distant cousins and stuff living the US that speak almost 100% polish and barely any english- but I don't count them as my "direct family" lol I think I've seen them like.. 3 times? in my entire life.
 
My grandma does the same thing with Bohemian! We all have no idea what she is saying, but all of her sisters spoke it and I vividly remember her speaking on the phone to them in Bohemian. Course she never taught any of her children (how could she speak about things with her kids actually being able to understand..lol).
 
lovely1m said:
My grandma does the same thing with Bohemian! We all have no idea what she is saying, but all of her sisters spoke it and I vividly remember her speaking on the phone to them in Bohemian. Course she never taught any of her children (how could she speak about things with her kids actually being able to understand..lol).
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Bohemian doesn't exist. I guess what you mean is Czech. :-) It's a pity she never taught you. My Grandfather could speak Hungarian (along with a bunch of other languages), but he didn't want to teach me because he thought it was useless (Hungary shares borders with my country and the south and partly east of Slovakia mostly speaks Hungarian anyway). I'd be so happy if I could speak it, but I'm too lazy to learn now, as I'm learning French and would like to start Luxembourgish. But to have a knowledge of Hungarian would be cool...
 
lauren grier said:
This is totally random.. My dads family is polish- anyway, my aunt (who passed) was the only one left in the family that really spoke any polish.. as a kid growing up I picked up a few things here and there (like a polish lullabye that I have NO idea what it means lol) as did my mother-- anyway... there's one thing that she (mom) says all the time- and ce has subsequently picked up but no one knows what it means.. I couldn't even BEGIN to try to spell it .. but it sounds like "buozjha" Anyone have ANY idea? my mom uses it affectionately.. like to the dogs and to ce lol.. so hopefully it doesn't mean like "you are a fat cow" or something you know :p
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I can't speak Polish, but it's related to Slovak. What you write there sounds as "Boze!" meaning "OMG!" But that doesn't make sense in the context she uses it. So I'm curious what it actually is. Will check this thread again later. :-)
 
I was thinking the same - "OMG!" Can't speak Polish either, but it's the same language family as Czech and Slovak.

Does that make sense, La?
 
margaret can't think of anything off the top of her head that would work for this - but she's going to think about it today ...
 
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pomi said:
I was thinking the same - "OMG!" Can't speak Polish either, but it's the same language family as Czech and Slovak.

Does that make sense, La?
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On second thought, it might work with endearment. In Slovak we tend to say "OMG you're cute", sometimes pronounced in a childish way as "boďe" instead of "bože"... especially with children and pets... But I'm still curious about how this riddle will be solved in the end. :-)
 
this is a very interesting thread, lol. i'l plan on staying tuned til he mystery is solved, lol. i took four years of spanish in hs so i'm no help :D
 
helenvader said:
Bohemian doesn't exist. I guess what you mean is Czech. :-) It's a pity she never taught you. My Grandfather could speak Hungarian (along with a bunch of other languages), but he didn't want to teach me because he thought it was useless (Hungary shares borders with my country and the south and partly east of Slovakia mostly speaks Hungarian anyway). I'd be so happy if I could speak it, but I'm too lazy to learn now, as I'm learning French and would like to start Luxembourgish. But to have a knowledge of Hungarian would be cool...
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Yep, I know that, but she says Bohemian, so I do, too. I know its only a state though so often if I assume someone won't know what Bohemian is, I say Czech. Or like if I am saying what my heritage is. Her parents actually immigrated to the US (though they had been living in Russia).
 
ok - so margaret just had an idea that maybe it's 'bozia' - which she says is used when talking about the baby jesus - like in the nativity ... not sure how that fits in w/ talking to the dog LOL ...
 
thx girlies.. it is possible (very probable) that my mom is using the word incorrectly.. She said that my aunt use to say it all the time but she def doesn't know what it's supposed to mean ^_^
 
La- I talked to my colleague at work today and immediately she said it's closest to "buzka" (the z is a Polish character with an accent over it). Phonetically, it's "booshka" and means something like "hug, hug, kiss, kiss" or "xoxo", a Polish term of endearment. I hope that's it! :)
 
Teresa said:
La- I talked to my colleague at work today and immediately she said it's closest to "buzka" (the z is a Polish character with an accent over it). Phonetically, it's "booshka" and means something like "hug, hug, kiss, kiss" or "xoxo", a Polish term of endearment. I hope that's it! :)
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sweet ! ty T.. I'm going to try to find one of those phonetic polish speaker thingers (holy crap I apparently lost all ability to speak english :p )
 
lol I just read through all the other replies(apparently I start at the bottom? hahahaha).. It's so fascinating how a lot of those languages cross in places.. I wish my aunt was still around so we could just ask her directly lol
 
lovely1m said:
Yep, I know that, but she says Bohemian, so I do, too. I know its only a state though so often if I assume someone won't know what Bohemian is, I say Czech. Or like if I am saying what my heritage is. Her parents actually immigrated to the US (though they had been living in Russia).
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If she calls it like that, you have every right to do the same. What's more, it's as if you had a language all for yourself. :-)
 
Teresa said:
La- I talked to my colleague at work today and immediately she said it's closest to "buzka" (the z is a Polish character with an accent over it). Phonetically, it's "booshka" and means something like "hug, hug, kiss, kiss" or "xoxo", a Polish term of endearment. I hope that's it! :)
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Wow. Cool to know. I was totally off with my guess. :-)
 
lauren grier said:
lol I just read through all the other replies(apparently I start at the bottom? hahahaha).. It's so fascinating how a lot of those languages cross in places.. I wish my aunt was still around so we could just ask her directly lol
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Languages are fascinating creatures. They have a life of their own, they develop, they simplify and at the same time grow more complicated, and they totally like to interbreed. It's enough to know two (English and French for example) to be able to watch this, but if you know more it gets more interesting. :-)

With Slavic languages it's especially fun, because words are similar but they sometimes have a totally different meaning, and it sounds funny. For me, Polish is hilarious, but I hear it's the same the other way round. :-)
 
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