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[Gerson W. Barbosa]

(08-03-2022 07:24 AM)vaklaff Wrote:  

(07-31-2022 09:02 PM)Gerson W. Barbosa Wrote:  Incidentally, when I read the first message in this thread I wondered how this would translate in Polish, „Nie mam the-the-ego problemu” or „nie mam the-the problemu” ?

I don't speak Polish but two other West Slavic languages and my gut feeling is that the first option wouldn't work, unless you mean it as a delicate play on word :-) I'd bet on the latter, maybe just with a different word order.

„Nie mam problemu z the-the” wouldn’t look strange, I think (compare with „Nie mam problemu z pisaniem”). I was expecting to learn Polish in less than ten years, but after studying it for a couple of years, I am not that optimistic anymore. If “life is too short to learn German”, it should be even shorter for Polish :-) At least telling masculine from feminine and neuter is way easier.