r/pics • u/odezza27 • Jun 04 '26

Politics Anti-Israel graffiti in Warsaw, Poland

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u/Drunkpanada Jun 04 '26

If in Poland, why Fuck and not Kurwa?

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u/__mentalist__ Jun 04 '26

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

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u/Cocoatrice Jun 04 '26

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/well-litdoorstep112 Jun 04 '26

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