A new year of notes and embarrassing mistakes
Happy New Year! Szczęśliwego nowego roku! It's a new year and a new blog. I'm getting used to the layout and it would seem that for ease of finding my notes, I would be best putting them in pages rather than in blog posts. So what shall I put in blog posts? Perhaps rough notes made on the hoof? Perhaps confessions of gaffs I make as I attempt to use Polish. The first gaff was in calling out a Polish surname. I hadn't started to learn the language at this point and had only been given a few pointers. All I had grasped was that sz was a bit like our sh and cz was a bit like our ch . So, faced with the name Pycz, I confidently stride out to call it out. What I know now, is that there is a very clear difference between shouting Pycz and Picz. One will attract the attention of the barer of the name, the other will attract quite the wrong sort of attention. Picz, I am reliably informed, is not at all polite.