I’m Polish!
August 15, 2007 • 9:43 pm
Someone just pointed at me (to laugh at someone who couldn’t read something) and said, “He’s Polish and he can read better than you!”
I thought this was some sort of private joke, like a Family Guy reference or something, but no, someone has apparently been spreading rumours that I am Polish.
It was fun while it lasted. For a moment, I almost believed it myself. It was like I caught a glimpse of what life would have been like if I was Polish, and gentlemen — it was sweet. Just think of all the things that would have been different had it been true:
- I would have been Polish
- I wouldn’t have been English
I think that’s all I need to say.
4 Comments
jake (the poacher0 wrote:
my comments are twain
1) there is a “polish-mexican” bistro in Shepherd’s Market, London.
2) there is a “polish-italian” restaraunt in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
August 15, 2007 • 10:08 pm
Mark wrote:
Twain — good word.
August 16, 2007 • 12:39 pm
MQ wrote:
All depends on whether the word ‘comment’ is a masculine noun. I think that’s what I learned in my Middle High German lectures. Twain is the last remaining evidence that English grammar once had three-way gender like in German. Apparently.
August 22, 2007 • 11:04 am
Mark wrote:
I love it. Grammar and etymology. They’re like, married. I want to learn Icelandic, that’s my ambition.
August 22, 2007 • 5:37 pm
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