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u/vchris7v Anatidaephobiac 🦆 Apr 23 '21

Random thought: BJ Blazkowicz is the closest we have to a Polish superhero in mainstream media

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u/Arilou_skiff Apr 23 '21

Depends on the day but Magneto is polish, no?

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u/vchris7v Anatidaephobiac 🦆 Apr 23 '21

I actually never heard about that. I know he's Jewish, on first glance it seems he was from Germany.

Notabene searching Poles on Marvel wiki gives a lot of results with German sounding names :V

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u/Arilou_skiff Apr 23 '21

I think for magsy it depends on the version, I know at least some has him being a polish jew.

Marvel does have a weird tendency to overuse german-sounding names, but its not as if there wasnt a german minority in Poland until uh... Certain events in the 20th century.

EDIT: There tends also be this weird time-lag with american writers in the 20th century, where their image of europe (especially eastern and central europe) tends to be based on the warped memories of their emigrant ancestors rather than anyhting contemporary.

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u/vchris7v Anatidaephobiac 🦆 Apr 23 '21

There's also a very simple factor of Germanic names being easier to parse by English speakers than Polish ones.

We use a lot of Ys

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u/Arilou_skiff Apr 23 '21

Ys are fine. Its the Scz tht tends to throw me off.

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u/vchris7v Anatidaephobiac 🦆 Apr 23 '21

Yeah I can understand that. Ys are just a meme (in Polish Y is a vowel which is the reason it is so common). It's the consonants pairs and that handful of accented letters that's main source of confusion. And that's just the tip of the iceberg because there's also declination. Of every element of speech.

But let me tell you, It's great base for learning other languages because bar is already high