(October 30, 2025 at 3:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 30, 2025 at 2:20 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: I don't know about IPA but for all that it's worth there isn't an "r" there for all practical purposes. It's not silent but joined with another letter making "rz"; you don't omit it while speaking the name but treat it as different letter altogether. In fact there aren’t any silent letters in Polish.
It's only a quibble though, nothing with practical relevance. I would say that no Andrzej would care but who knows, there might be one in this big, big world who would.
In Irish, there are both broad and slender vowels and broad and slender consonants. Whether any of these are broad or slender depends on which vowels/vowel combinations are paired with broad or slender consonant/consonant combinations and vice versa.
And people wonder why Irish is a dying language.
Boru
I quite often see opinions about Polish being hard language to learn but it is at least in one aspect far easier than English. You write "Andrzej upiekł ciasto" and you read it as "Andrzej upiekł ciasto". In English however "Andrew baked the cake" morphs into "Endrju bejk'd de kejk". Clearly Polish would be better lingua franca.
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