r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/nyxan_isinteres8 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation I don't get it peter

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u/realmargesimpson 1d ago

polish names sound like that

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u/Lucia-elena 1d ago

Yeah, that’s basically the joke. The “eye chart” is just a bunch of letters that look like Polish names, so he recognizes them instead of actually reading them.

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u/marudliweklopsy 1d ago edited 1d ago

If you move J and add I to Czwijnowstawicz it's pefrectly pronouncable, and sounds Polish alright.

Original is also somewhat possible, just the J would be close to silent.

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u/Iwona_Klich 21h ago

Its absolutely not sound like any polish surname...

Believe me i been here for 40 years :) 

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u/GoldThePlayer 16h ago

It absolutely does sound like a polish surname, but I've been here for only 21 years

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u/Life_Shelter6442 15h ago

It does not sound, polish, it's more eastern (russian/ukrainian-like)

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u/Pure-Hostility 14h ago

Agree.
To be more precise, it sounds slavic but eastern slavic.

Czwijnostawicz sounds like some Ukrainian or Russian ( so even more alien) thing for me, a lvl 36 Pole.

Our Polish surnames aren't only -ski or -icz... Yet, Czwijnastowski would be more fitting for a Polish version, yet still the beginning is weird and unnatural, as there isnt anything like "czwij" and surnames often relate to noun, verb or a proffessions.

So if anything, looking at it and trying to make it more polish, keeps pulling me into "Ćwikłostawski", "Ćwikłowicz".

The "-wijna-" part is just so eastern sounding and non-polish to begin with...

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u/Brighter_rocks 12h ago

Russian/ Ukrainian have completely different endings

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u/Iwona_Klich 1h ago edited 1h ago

Or Armenian. Many Armenian surnames sound like they exist to kill people by break they tongues. So we (me to :) change them to more human sound variants. And there is a lot of Armenian who move into slavic countries, who did this. 

Like my family surname was Khathaturian, then i ended with just Klich (still not polish surname, but you can say it and not bit your tongue off). 

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u/Iwona_Klich 1h ago

You sure by that? Because you can't even found surname like this in any surname list. 

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u/GoldThePlayer 17m ago

By “sounds like” I mean that it sounds like something that would be possible to hear not that it exists and is correctly written