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[Jimmy O'Regan]

ben wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 09:51:10PM +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
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>>Ben Okopnik wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 02:44:34PM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
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>>>>Jimmy O'Regan said:
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>>>>>$aogonek = "\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK}";
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>>>>$a_okopnik ?
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>>>With an ogonek ("small flame/spark"), of course. You know me too well,
>>>Mike.
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>>Eh?
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>>/me thumbs the polsko-angielski sl/ownik
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>>ogonek /m/ 1. /zdr od/ ogon 2. BIO (li`scia, owocu) stalk 3. inf 
>>(kolejka) queue
>>ogon /m/ ZOOL, ASTRON tail
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>>Tail makes more sense to me (an ogonek is like a backwards cedilla).
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>Hm, strange. I expected it to be like Russian - in fact, I'm surprised
>that it's not.
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>ogon' - fire
>ogonyok - small fire/light, spark
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A quick trip back to the dictionary later: fire is ogien'. I bought a 
Russian phrase book a while back (there's a *lot* of Central and Eastern 
Europeans moving to Ireland these days), and the difference between 
Russian and Polish seems about the same as that between Irish and Welsh: 
mostly the same words, but with different spellings and pronunciation :)

The best example I saw is 'stol'. In Polish, that has an o acute and an 
l slash. When you're just using the nominative, it's pronounced 'stoo', 
but in the genetive the o acute becomes an o, and the l slash becomes an 
l before adding the genetive ending ('em' in this case).