Glizdka
Key Member
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2019
- Member Type
- Other
- Native Language
- Polish
- Home Country
- Poland
- Current Location
- Poland
This comes from yours truly. I said that to a person who was cursing like a sailor.
You say fuck every second word.
I know that English uses other to mean an alternating pattern. I'd probably use other instead, but it was an impulse from me because of the intensity of the situation. Polish uses ordinal numbers (equivalents of first and second) to mean other, another, former, latter, and I guess my inner Pole took over.
What surprised me was that the person I was talking to perfectly understood what I meant. Is that because every "every second [item]" could mean the same as "every other [item]"?
You say fuck every second word.
I know that English uses other to mean an alternating pattern. I'd probably use other instead, but it was an impulse from me because of the intensity of the situation. Polish uses ordinal numbers (equivalents of first and second) to mean other, another, former, latter, and I guess my inner Pole took over.
What surprised me was that the person I was talking to perfectly understood what I meant. Is that because every "every second [item]" could mean the same as "every other [item]"?