As if using your eyeball-brain interface to digest words from a computer screen while simultaneously operating a sandwich with your hand-mouth-stomach assembly wasn’t already interactive enough, how about doing a quiz at the same time!
Listed below are 8 sentences in English which all either retain their Polish structure in places, or use wrong or wrongly phrased vocabulary in place of correct synonyms. Your mission is to re-write these eight Polglish hybrids into bowler-hatted, tea-drinking English. You can do this in your head, you can copy and paste them into a text file or Word doc, or you can just abandon the whole silly thing and go for a walk.
Next week, we’ll go through them together and look at why they’re wrong and how we can fix them. In the meantime, good luck and have fun!
Psychic Bonus: Write your corrected version of number 8 in the comments section and if you use the same single word that I’m thinking of to fix it, international notoriety will be yours!
1) Funding will eventually reach a whole-country scale throughout the EU.
2) The plans of the City Hall include modernisation of the ring road.
3) Popovic was proud to announce that an all-country team of experts would be examining the case.
4) We would like to inform that the 13.00 bus to Olsztyn has been cancelled.
5) Since joining the EU, more and more beers of the brewery are selling overseas.
6) They are, without a doubt, one of the best in Europe dance teams, and all totally hot!
7) The tears of the angel dripped onto her feet as she sat alone on the swing.
8) Parking of 6-axle vehicles in the nearest area of the Old Town is prohibited.
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