On May 28, 2004, at 0:52, Margot Walker wrote:
And the arrangement of dates? Don't even get me started...Where's the logic of having "month, day, year" sequence???
Only the U.S. does that, the rest of us do day, month, year.
I have a strong suspicion -- Weronika? -- that Poland is now aping the custom (along with many others). When I was growing up, the dates were not only written in the "day, month, year" sequence (the logical progression from the smallest to the largest unit), but the month was written in Roman numerals, just to make everything perfectly clear. So, today, would have been: 28.V.04.
Sometime after I left, the month began to be written in Arabic numerals. I expect, with the school week being reduced from 6 days to 5, there was't enough time to teach kids Roman numerals <g> But, later still, I began to get things dated *both* ways: 28.5.04 and 5.28.04. Drives me up the wall :)
Re linguistic changes due to separation (age, distance)
On May 28, 2004, at 8:35, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
Since they came to the US as youngsters, when they encountered new things (television, say), sometimes they made up words or phrases for them. Naturally these were different from the real Polish words for whatever it was.
Works both ways... :) The commonly used (in Poland) word for "email" is "emalia". Which, in Polish, *means* "enamel", but sounds somewhat similiar to the original English. And, some 10 years ago, when I went to a store to buy a cordless 'phone with answering machine (ansaphone) for my father, and asked about the way the message was recorded (tape or chip), I was informed that the message was recorded on "cipa". Which, in Polish, is a word I wouldn't dare mention on lace-chat, and which turned the young man's cheeks beet-red, having to say it, out loud, to a matron like me <g>... I sure hope they've solved *that* problem since :)
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