>be Bronisłav Piłsudski, brother of a long-time leader of Poland who achieved its independence after a century of division and subjugation >organise an unsuccessful socialist revolution in Russia with Lenin's brother >get sentenced for hard labour on Sakhalin >marry Ainu woman and conduct anthropological research on their culture, music, myths and customs and make the first Ainu dictionary >move to Japan during the Russo-Japanese war and organise an anti-Imperial movement of Russian expats >travel around the world and end up in Paris during the WWI, where you work for Dmowski's organisation, an arch-rival of your brother in the Polish independence movement >drown in the Seine river
Today, the last living paternal descendant of the noble Piłsudski family is Kazuyasu Kimura (pic related on the right), who lives in Yokohama and has two daughters
Off topic - recently I was watching Slovak state TV and I could understand almost everything. Do Slovaks understand spoken Polish?
Colton Thomas
F
Thomas Edwards
Kind of. It depends on exposure. I can understand about 60% (more when it's written), but someone from the border areas could get more.
Christopher Rogers
When I was abroad I've met Slovaks and I could understand them in 80%
Jacob Martinez
Although it's pretty similar, Polish phonology makes it hard to understand for me.
There's a dialect continuum between Polish and Slovak, but I'm from the south-western Slovakia.
Isaac Gray
I should learn Russian or some other Slavic language.
It's shameful when I don't understand my fellow Slavs except for Czechs.
Jeremiah Cooper
You should definitely learn one, it's very easy and if you, for example, learn Russian, you will be also able to understand Ukrainian and Belarusian (like 85)%, plus you will receive great boost in understanding other Slavic languages. OK, so it's quite asimetrical, yea, our phonology drifted too far
Matthew Wright
>asimetrical asymmetrical
Isaiah Cook
>Bronyslav lol
Michael Wood
5/5, would register on a forum.
Brony literally means "reservations". Bronya means "armour", "bronit" - to protect.
Jack Cook
we also have that word in Swedish. Brynja for chainmail
Tyler Scott
funny, here we have it strangely reversed zbroja - armor; broń - weapon even though bronić means to protect and so on
Christopher Nelson
>zbroja Looks like Russian "zbruya" - harness.
Julian Johnson
Means "Defend Pride/Honour"
Sebastian Martinez
I'd tap Jadwiga's ass though
Owen Ross
>broń - weapon and in czech its zbranje or something like that strange way to spell oruzje imo
Gavin Wright
I've heard that Piłsudskis were originally Lithuanian, but they've got Polonized like a lot of nobles in the Commonwealth.
Both Józef and Bronisław were born in the current Lithuania.
Luis Sullivan
Actually, it's zbraně
Noah Cooper
yes i know but we dont have yat e even though we almost adopted it so i wrote it the way we would write it
Robert White
You guys get a lot of Czech tourists, right?
Nathan Torres
mate you are on vacation, go outside and enjoy it or something
Oliver Morgan
and die? sry m8 yeah pic rel
Dominic Ortiz
>I've heard that Piłsudskis were originally Lithuanian, but they've got Polonized like a lot of nobles in the Commonwealth.
