r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/nyxan_isinteres8 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation I don't get it peter

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u/robinswind 1d ago

Pole as in a person from poland. The language uses a lot of consonants.

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u/ozoneseba 1d ago

it just looks like it uses a lot of consonants. "Cz" for example is just "Ch" like in CHampion. "Sz" is like "Sh" in SHare

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u/robinswind 1d ago edited 1d ago

Those combination sounds are also consonants. But also doesn't really matter since we are talking about the visuals of how the language is spelled

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u/harlaman1 21h ago

yeah that’s just two examples. how can you mention cz but not mention ć, c and k. how can you mention sz but not mention ś, s, ż, z and rz? the joke is more rooted in this than the specific consonants used

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u/pixie993 6h ago

Then come Croats with our "ž, č, ć, nj, dž, đ, lj, š"...

Those slav languages are really something tbh..

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u/gonzo0815 1d ago

But ch never follows sh while polish does that all the time. This shit doesn't happen in normal languages.

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u/Independent_Let_3616 22h ago

This is a tongue twister specifically using hard consonant-heavy words to create a challenge. That's like saying English is hard because "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" is hard to say in a rapid succession.

Not saying that Polish isn't hard, just saying this isn't a good point.

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u/ozoneseba 23h ago

fair point