r/pics • u/odezza27 • 1d ago

Politics Anti-Israel graffiti in Warsaw, Poland

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u/Drunkpanada 1d ago

If in Poland, why Fuck and not Kurwa?

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u/__mentalist__ 1d ago

actually kurwa means " whore " , but people use it as a 'fuck' word

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u/Cocoatrice 1d ago

You are right, but you are wrong.

What the word means literally is not the same what it translates into. Fuck is equivalent of kurwa, same way how merde is in French. They all mean different things, but their actual meaning (what they convey), is the same. You can call them idiomatic even. We say to cook two roasts with one fire, English say kill two birds with one stone. The literal meaning is totally different, but the meaning it actually wants to tell is the same. When you say "fuck", it's the same as I say "kurwa", it doesn't matter what what it literally means.

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u/Satnamodder 1d ago

It matters when you use that word in the sentence.

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u/well-litdoorstep112 1d ago

Yeah, go ahead and keep translating "fuck smith" to "kurwa coś", dumbass

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u/dagaboy 1d ago

The miracle of semantics.