Comments on: A great name

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:37:53 +0000

I took a train from London to Kiev once, it was all pretty simple. Going the other way wouldn’t be hard, if you go Kiev-Warsaw-Berlin-Brussels-London.

I also took a taxi from Kiev to the Crimea, which was an exceptionally bad idea. The Crimea is well worth visiting though.

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:37:53 +0000

I took a train from London to Kiev once, it was all pretty simple. Going the other way wouldn’t be hard, if you go Kiev-Warsaw-Berlin-Brussels-London.

I also took a taxi from Kiev to the Crimea, which was an exceptionally bad idea. The Crimea is well worth visiting though.

By: Tatyana

Tatyana — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:06:08 +0000

Michael, did you find my translations useful?

By: Michael Jennings

Michael Jennings — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:58:35 +0000

Yes, it would have been a better joke if the spellings of frak and FRAC were reversed. Alas, though….

By: michael farris

michael farris — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:26:15 +0000

Okay. I’d never heard of frac or frak, so I guess I’m deprived, culturally speaking.

And c in Polish pronounced like ts, so I mentally read it with that sound which didn’t help.

And (just to show how dense I can be) I’ve lived in Poland for many years now and somehow never associated the end of ‘alkohole’ with ‘hole’.

By: Michael Jennings

Michael Jennings — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:25:49 +0000

Actually, I was trying to make a joke about how frak might be spelled slightly differently in Polish from the way familiar to us. Possibly too nerdy.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:08:04 +0000

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frac

By: michael farris

michael farris — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:32:43 +0000

Delikatesy is a Polish translation of the German Delicatessen ‘delicacies’. When the German plural word was borrowed into English it turned into a singular.

That is if you were asking about ‘delikatesy’, I have no idea what to say if you were asking about FRAC…