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April 17, 2010
Saturday
 
 
A great name
Michael Jennings (London)  Eastern Europe

Rzeszow, Poland, April 2010

Yes, I understand that this is actually a straightforward translation of a common word into Polish, but if I ever open a bar, "Alkohole" will be a great name for it.

As it is, I am now in the Ukraine, a little to the east of Rzeszow. Given the closure of most European airspace, I have no idea whatsoever how or when I am going to return to the UK. One option would be swearing.


This is also presumably a straightforward translation into Polish?

Another option, and the one I will be taking up, would be to just potter around for a bit. I am in no pressing hurry to return to London, and pottering around in this part of the world is not expensive. I could try and return by surface transport, but crowds and crushes and expenses and sold out trains and ferries do not sound like much fun. I may even head east for a bit. Odessa and Crimea sound interesting.

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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...


Posted by michael farris at April 17, 2010 07:32 PM

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


Posted by Chris at April 17, 2010 08:08 PM

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.


Posted by Michael Jennings at April 17, 2010 09:25 PM

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'.


Posted by michael farris at April 17, 2010 10:26 PM

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


Posted by Michael Jennings at April 17, 2010 10:58 PM

Michael, did you find my translations useful?


Posted by Tatyana at April 18, 2010 06:06 AM

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.


Posted by Tim Newman at April 18, 2010 06:37 AM

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.


Posted by Tim Newman at April 18, 2010 06:37 AM
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