#polish surnames

[reneeub]

In honor of English being Jean's third language here are some words I learned from reading TSC!

scrimmage - on-court fight for the ball or a practice game

hazing - like bullying (may be by older students to 'welcome' a new one?)

sprained LCL

floozy - like Jeremy said, there's no good explanation... but the way I laughed when google said it's lafirynda XDDD

scoop neckline - like a v-neck but hotter

contrition 🫠

[lorawant2draw]

[unkillable-gays]

It's very bizarre that they have the whole scene of Emma (little Victorian ghost girl) asking for the boys' help, and Edwin negotiating with her, just to never mention her again!

I get that it was partly just to establish how they normally do business at their agency, before it all gets disrupted. But she's also the only reason any of us meet Crystal at all, and that anything in the show happens!

Emma is established to be manipulative and tight-fisted, but she's still willing to shell out...something to have them help Crystal, which would indicate that she cares about her. But we never see the two of them reunited, even though I'd imagine the boys wouldn't be able to collect payment until after they've solved her case.

Not to mention!!! Emma KNOWS Crystal! (Even if only a little!) When Crystal's memory is erased, and she's despairing not knowing anything about herself, why doesn't she, OR one of the boys, seek Emma out to ask her about Crystal's background?

AND none of Crystal's reclaimed memories contain any trace of Emma! Given that they both seemed to be "mean girls", they could've gotten up to some fun hijinks together! Did the writers just forget about her?

idk... I get that Emma was just a plot device, but it seems like it would've left far fewer questions open to just have her say, "some freaky psychic is acting crazy and terrorizing me/other ghosts, " rather than "please help my good friend 🥺"

[tarancho]

johnathon ohnn eating gołąbki. that's it.

[your-fave-is-just-a-lil-guy]

Mischa Bachinski is just a little guy!!

Mischa Bachinski from Ride The Cyclone is just a little guy!

[amaryllis-sagitta]

Having ancestors from the Eastern Borderlands and Greater Poland and Świętokrzyskie be like

[rabarbarzcukrem]

The replies on this post about Maria Skłodowska-Curie are a perfect example of behavior people have in mind when they talk about usamericans.

You'd think the logical conclusion to being proved wrong would be to say "ok I see, I was wrong, but now I know better" and then move on

But for some reason they will choose to devote twice as much time and energy to DEFEND their RIGHT to be wrong. Amazing

[thefloatingwriter]

guess who finally gave wiress’ dad a name.

[depoteka]

i know that many polish people had to americanize their surnames when they came to the usa but sooo many times when watching movies i've seen them give characters "polish" surnames that don't even have hints of being an actual polish surname

[wagingmywarsbehindmyface]

you guys, i’m watching world on fire ep 1! my traumatised parents 🥹 harry and kasia! 😭 together! 🫶

i love @poppy-inmyhair for her skills of research 😭

[tendebill]

[wip]

update: i have managed to do all the stuff i need for tomorrow/this week (i think. i hope.) and decided to treat myself by working on this seph piece a bit more :']

[not-poignant]

I just saw Janusz’s surname and it’s missing a “g” (it should be Bogdanowicz if you’re using existing Polish surnames). (Please ignore this message if it’s rude, I thought it may be a typo!) Also, thank you so so much for making one of your characters Polish and not changing his name (I’m looking at you Teen Wolf!)

It is for sure missing a 'g'!

It's been Anglicised - as in, Bodanowicz is actually found as an Anglicised spelling of Bogdanowicz in Australia, the UK and the USA (along with Bodanowitz).

He's not a Polish person who has freshly moved to Australia and therefore is much more likely to have kept the spelling of his surname. He's someone who had his Polish parents / grandparents come over, at a time when the Anglicisation of surnames was a lot more common (see artists like Jaduiga Bodanowicz).

I'm someone whose legal surname is in the same situation due to my grandparents immigrating over, my legal surname clearly 'foreign' and European but it was also altered very slightly to make it more appealing to people and it was never changed back again! If I go to the Netherlands now, some people would be like 'hey that's not quite right' but it is where I live, because it's legal and it's all I've ever known. My Oma completely changed her first name and was so ashamed of it, I never knew it until a few years before her death. She went by a very 'western' name instead (Coree/Corey).

So yeah, it would for sure be incorrect in Poland, but a lot of foreign names were altered slightly or significantly to make them more 'palatable' when people came to Australia which while not a great practice, I thought would be realistic to Janusz' heritage. There's a whole back-story about it (including why his parents decided to give him a name where they were like 'fuck it, we're not anglicising that anymore'), but basically it was a deliberate choice to more accurately reflect what a lot of foreign immigrants did when they came to Australia some decades ago.

Janusz' relationship to his Polish heritage and how he balances that with being Australian is something that he has some thoughts on in general, since like many Europeans who immigrated over, some worked quite hard to not quite erase their heritage, but simply not teach it to their kids, with the belief 'you're in Australia now.'

Sadly not a typo, just...what scared, displaced and uncertain immigrants did sometimes (and honestly still do sometimes) to try and fit in better in a new home.

[bastardgoblinwolf]

is that butcher guy from the academy is polish or something. mrotek reads like a slavic surname to me

[kocikikut]

my oc kallisto, not very proud of the drawing itself but eh

[druidgroves]

wife convinced me to start playing neopets

[reneeub]

PIOTR SPANKOWSKI Polska górą !!!!!1!!;1!🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱