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[-] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 53 points 6 months ago

How is that name pronounced? Chuck?

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago
[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 6 months ago

Gregorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz would like a word

[-] takeda@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

It is funny how he is fucking with him: https://youtu.be/AfKZclMWS1U

[-] takeda@lemm.ee 44 points 6 months ago

It's not a real name and it is hard to pronounce even for a Pole.

[-] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

it might he hard for all you lazy Poles up there in the north, but we have it down pat back here in the balmy south,

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Czywinostawcz would be pronounceable, but the j fucks it up.

[-] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"cz" marks the same sound as the English "ch". "j" marks the same as "y" in "yes". Otherwise you read it letter by letter, a bit as if it was Spanish.

So... Is Ch'yvinos'tavch legible enough? :) Although, the pronounciation of the j would be so weak that you could perhaps skip it. It does alter the sound a bit, but doesn't really sound as an independent sound in this word. So, also Ch'vinos'tavch could maybe be a valid transcription? And of course real Polish language does not have the combination czj anyway :)

[-] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

It might be trying to spell Czy wino stawić?

[-] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Taaak, dla czego nie :)

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago
[-] sznowicki@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

We don’t do silent letters. Life is difficult enough.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Looking at these words and names I really think some silent letters would actually help out

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You actually mash the letters together into a sound. So Cz is pronounced like a c and z at the same time.

If the name was real, that is.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

I think you need to Czech next door to Poland to find a Cz sound.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Hmm fair.
I was conflating sz with cz

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

Polish just uses -z like how English uses -h in digraphs, so sz is sh, cz is ch

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Now do rz, ż, ź, dz, dż and dź!

[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I’ll never pass a chance to post this

Silent Letter Day

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

I can try my best until an actual Pole drops by... I'm guessing something like "Chinostas Chabras" (I apologize I'm advance for how wrong I probably am, I'm just applying what I learned from how to pronounce other polish names but I don't speak the language whatsoever).

[-] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

It's not Polish, just letters mashed in. You can tell by how utterly unpronounceable that made up word is.

You can't have j (pronounced as y in yoga) letter after cz (pronounced like ch in check), it would evolve into i (pronounced like e in e).

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

All the information is on the task.

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