OK, the B-Day's over, time for correctionsOriginally Posted by IWantAnAudiRS6
"polski" is an adjective, a person from Poland is a "Polak" (or "Polka" when it's a female).
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OK, the B-Day's over, time for corrections
"polski" is an adjective, a person from Poland is a "Polak" (or "Polka" when it's a female).
It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.
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Thank... youOK, the B-Day's over, time for corrections
"polski" is an adjective, a person from Poland is a "Polak" (or "Polka" when it's a female).
A polka is also a danceuseless fact of the day...
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thank ya all once again
i've been waiting for that thread for few last weeks haha
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interestingly, it's swedishA polka is also a dance
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I don't think I'll be able to sleep now, after that amazing piece of information!interestingly, it's swedish
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No it's not. It's czech. The swedish dance is called polska.interestingly, it's swedish
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Actually Wikipedia tells that polska is from 16th century Poland. Which makes perfect sense as polska means Polish in Swedish, where the dance was popular in the 18th century.
Edit: of course I don't know what that dance is called in Poland.
Edit2: to not take over the thread, late bday congratulations to Dydzi!
Last edited by twinspark; 12-01-2006 at 08:24 AM.
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It's not a polish dance so it doesn't have a specific name in polish. The most probable explanation of the name is that it was invented at the swedish court by some polish artists during the polish-swedish union at the end of the XVI century.
As for polka, that dance was originally called "pulka", which means "half" in czech language (it's a 2/4-beat dance). The name got changed to "polka" as a sign of solidarity with polish insurgents of the 1830-31 uprising.
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Okay, I don't feel like arguing about your own history, especially as my knowledge is limited to wikipedia's information that isn't exactly bulletproof.
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Happy Birthday
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Don't go off topic henk!Happy Birthday
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Sorry I had no time to read everything there, so I concentrated on the important issue...Don't go off topic henk!
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Happy Birthday mate, hope you'll have fun
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