Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz (HD)
trouchelle1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2020–2025
comedy · general · evergreen · 2020–2025 on HN
A colorized clip from the 1970 Polish comedy film 'How I Unleashed World War II' in which a character must pronounce the tongue-twisting name Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz for a Gestapo officer.
Mostly posted as a joke in threads about Polish, Unicode or hard-to-pronounce names, and loved as a comedy scene.
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5 comments from Hacker News
Ah, Polish. I love this movie scene, which I learned about here on HN some time ago: "Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz" -- ▶ this video
Oh yes, Polish, the difficulty is shown in this 1:19 slice from a movie: "Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz " -- ▶ this video
The interaction brings to mind Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz: ▶ this video (from the Polish comedy film "How I Unleashed World War II")
Ah, well, I should've written ‘Russian-Latin confusion’—forgot about the alphabet changeovers. But at least I'm told that: > It can be written in Serbian Cyrillic or Gaj's Latin alphabet, whose thirty letters mutually map one-to-one, and the orthography is highly phonemic in all standards. Though digraphs spoil the clarity somewhat. Which reminded me that I should check what Kazakhstan is doing to its language. They seem to at least have avoided the eldritch monstrosity of Polish with ‘Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz’ and the like ( ▶ this video ). But they are still setting themselves up for English-language people pretending they can pronounce anything Latin-looking—despite English itself demanding you memorize the dictionary twice, for speaking and writing. So Kazakhstan will soon have its own great writer Karel Kaypek.
> I always felt that Polish words were just too long You might like the movie about Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz: ▶ this video