| ▲ | The curious case of the disappearing Polish S(aresluna.org) |
| 67 points by colinprince 3 hours ago | 19 comments |
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| ▲ | quibono an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| I believe the fact that Polish uses the Latin alphabet (with a small Slavic twist to express the extra sounds) meant it was much easier for Poland to align itself westward. I think the average Pole is much closer culturally to the Western neighbours than to a Ukrainian or Russian (maybe apart from cuisine). |
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| ▲ | keiferski 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | The adoption of the Latin alphabet was itself a move to align itself westward, with kingdoms in the Latin world, not the Byzantine one, and tied to adopting Catholicism rather than Orthodoxy. | |
| ▲ | q3k an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Polish cuisine is very similar to German cuisine. (This comment will make a lot of Polish people very upset.) | | |
| ▲ | grvbck an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Sure, a common use of bread, potatoes, cabbage/other vegetables, hearty meat dishes etc but the Polish kitchen is closer to Ukrainian/Russian in technique/ingredients. Barszcz, pierogi, fermented everything, pickles, sour rye, and many dishes built around wheat/rye, mushrooms, dairy, and Eastern-style fillings are much more like Ukrainian/Belarusian/Russian food. The biggest German influences are probably the sausages and the beer culture. | |
| ▲ | CurtHagenlocher an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How reasonably can German cuisine be described as a single unified thing? My mother was from East Prussia and my father from Swabia and their "home" cuisines were pretty dissimilar -- if for no other reason than climate. | |
| ▲ | tau255 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Due to Partitions of Poland a lot of of territory was under Prussian influence for over a century - that had to have some culinary effect (other than forced germanization). | |
| ▲ | ck45 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Lots of common main ingredients like potatoes, beets, cabbage, and sausages.
It could also have a different reason, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_eastern_territories_of_... |
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| ▲ | gedy an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Being Catholic helps too |
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| ▲ | paweladamczuk 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's just like the new Copilot 365. Every time I try to type "Ć", Copilot pops up. I have to close the app constantly. |
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| ▲ | Random09 a few seconds ago | parent | next [-] | | Every little thing like that creates a new Linux user.
After switching I've never looked back. Posted from SteamOS. | |
| ▲ | StefanBatory 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Best part is that it installs itself automatically, without prompting me for that. Thank you Microsoft; nice to see your QA works well. |
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| ▲ | notathrowaway51 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Fun fact: when treated with unicode Normalization Form Canonical Decomposition, 8 out of 9 polish letters (ż,ó,ć,ę,ś,ą,ź,ń) break down into base letter + combining diacritical mark, but ł stays intact. That means you can't use sqlite's unicode61 remove_diacritics tokenizer to normalize polish text for FTS. |
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| ▲ | TRiG_Ireland an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The linguistic, historical, and cultural information is so fascinating, and really well explained. |
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| ▲ | nashashmi an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This was a fun read. Here is the tl;dr version: > Instead of blindly and greedily blocking Ctrl S, we could block Ctrl S only if Alt key was not pressed. Ctrl alt s was the keyboard shortcut for the polish S. Ctrl s was blocked to improve saving. And this also blocked ctrl alt s too. |
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| ▲ | atombender 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| (2015) |
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| ▲ | smitty1e an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| As I am fond of saying: "The good news about Open Source is that you've got the source code; the bad news about Open Source is that _you've_ got the source code." That is, you may well get sucked down a rabbit hole in order to accomplish a simple task. |
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| ▲ | 0bytes an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| “Polish uses the English/Latin alphabet” - was it developed back when the US and Italy were allies in ancient Roman times? |
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| ▲ | gdwatson an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I stumbled over that too, but it makes sense when you finish the article. The ancient Romans didn’t build a lot of keyboards. | |
| ▲ | milkshakeyeah an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | What’s hard to understand here? |
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