Tuesday, June 3, 2025
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Fredro should tell that to all the left-wing politicians, including Donald Tusk and Bill Clinton.
ReplyDeleteNever in a million years would I have thought that I'd find myself in the position where I would say that a Polish quotation, however apposite, could do with a tweak for the purposes of clarification. Perhaps Fredro's readers and admirers back in his own time would have understood his meaning immediately, but I wonder if your readers in Poland or any of your fluent Polish-speaking readers elsewhere would agree with me that the above quotation could be ambiguous. If the word "woli" is read as a verb, then it makes the quotation quite nonsensical, because the whole thing would then translate as: "A nation, which doesn't have strength and prefers to tell ruffians, that they are ruffians, is not worth being a nation."
ReplyDeleteBut if the word "woli" is read as the noun meaning "will" (as in the will to do something), then the quotation makes much more sense and would translate as: "A nation, which doesn't have (either) the strength (or) the will, to tell ruffians that they are ruffians, is not worth (does not deserve to be) a nation."
Przepraszam, Panie Aleksandrze. So much for my pedantic intervention, but things can be easily misunderstood nowadays. Here's a link to a film adaptation of 'Zemsta'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoPAYLypsyk
For what it's worth, i copied this meme from Lech Walesa's page. I suspect he speaks Polish much better than I do.
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