SZCZYZ - CRAZY POLISH NAMES

SZCZYZ   Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:47 pm GMT
SZCZYZ - yeah thats a crazy polish male name,
and it sounds as crazy as it looks.

SZCZYZ pronounced in Polish approximately - "Sscheesh"

Why do Polish language writing looks like hell with 10 consonants in one word and only one vowel?

Any other crazy names impossible to spell and pronounce?
Dead Stalker   Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:11 pm GMT
Polish:
sz,cz,z,y - 3 consonants/1 vowel

English:
string - 5 consonants/1 vowel

Nothing special.
PARISIEN   Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:19 pm GMT
"SZCZYZ pronounced in Polish approximately - "Sscheesh"

-- This sound is very frequent in Slavic languages. The Russian alphabet needs only one letter for "Shtch".

Polish spelling is indeed weird. Why didn't they choose a sensible system with a simple and logical set of diacritics like Croat or Czech did?

And why does Polish use "w" for the "v"-sound, so that there is no "v" in their alphabet? just to make words a little bit more cumbersome?
blanc   Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:47 pm GMT
first of all, this sound in Russian, in Moscow, doesn't exist. It's the same as in Polish soft sh: ś
It's prounounced like you said only in Sankt Petersburg.
forum rules   Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:32 am GMT
SZCZYZ pronounced shtchsh has no vowels in pronunciation.

it sounds like stch-sh
Szczyz   Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:58 am GMT
>>SZCZYZ pronounced shtchsh has no vowels in pronunciation.

Polish "y" is a vowel; maybe you are incapable to hear it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_unrounded_vowel
brushko   Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:53 am GMT
the "y" vowel is a sound attached by default to any consonant, no mater what language. But on its own its considered a vowel.
Tom   Sun Jan 10, 2010 1:38 pm GMT
FYI, "Szczyz" is not a name or word, though there are words which contain "szczyz", e.g. "polszczyzna".


"Polish spelling is indeed weird. Why didn't they choose a sensible system with a simple and logical set of diacritics like Croat or Czech did?"

I'm not sure what's weird about using two letters to denote one sound. German uses "sch" and "tsch", English uses "sh" and "ch", Polish uses "sz" and "cz". If anything, I would prefer Polish to have no diacritics; they're a pain to type.
x   Sun Jan 10, 2010 2:56 pm GMT
"And why does Polish use "w" for the "v"-sound, so that there is no "v" in their alphabet? just to make words a little bit more cumbersome?"

So does German, and their "v" sounds like the English "f".
Skippy   Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:11 pm GMT
If 'szczyz' only has 3 consonants, then 'string' only has 4. s-t-r and ng
russo turisto   Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:52 am GMT
first of all, this sound in Russian, in Moscow, doesn't exist. It's the same as in Polish soft sh: ś
It's prounounced like you said only in Sankt Petersburg.

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that's wrong. sound "shch" doesn't exist in Russian at all and people in St. Petersburg speak very good literate Russian. This sound exists only in Ukraine, they do pronounce letter щ like shch.
Some Individual   Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:09 pm GMT
Clearly the guy who invented Polish spelling was a complete madman.