Tag Archives: Ponglish
On News and Ice Tea Posted by Anna on Sep 24, 2009
Just the other day I was asked what (if any) Polish equivalents of these words would be, and frankly, I didn’t have a clue. All the Poles I know refer to ice tea as “ice tea” and news is “news”, or sometimes “nius”. I checked with a couple of dictionaries, and asked a couple of…
Polish, English or Ponglish? Posted by Anna on May 7, 2009
No, I am not talking here about the butchered combination of Polish and English that some of my fellow countrymen, who spent more than two months abroad, are so fond of. I’m talking about the signs I saw at one of the largest bookstores in Gdańsk. I went to Dom Książki (literally: dom = house…