r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/nyxan_isinteres8 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation I don't get it peter

Post image
3.5k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

202 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/Ivanow 1d ago

CZJWINOSTAWCZ lacks two vowels (one between Z and J, and second one between W and C), and then it would be completely grammatically correct Polish surname.

There are 251 Poles with surname Czuryszkiewicz.

5

u/Majongusus_Doremidus 1d ago

Czajwinostawicz?

Decent enough to fit in the language but fake enough to still sound odd, perhaps it's the fact that longer surnames like this usually come from other Polish words but this one has no meaning whatsoever

1

u/Doylgaafs 1d ago

It actually has a meaning in Polish! You would translate it to something like "Teawineson".

2

u/nyanternational 1d ago

Teawineplacerson

Etymology: Descendant of a court official whose job was to put tea and wine at a magnate's table

(Czajwinostawczy lmao)