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1:20 · 4.3M views · Apr 25, 2015
A colorized clip from the 1970 Polish comedy film 'How I Unleashed World War II' in which a character must pronounce the tongue-twisting name Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz for a Gestapo officer.
Mostly posted as a joke in threads about Polish, Unicode or hard-to-pronounce names, and loved as a comedy scene.
5 comments from Hacker News
Ah, Polish. I love this movie scene, which I learned about here on HN some time ago: "Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz" -- this video
Ah, well, I should've written ‘Russian-Latin confusion’—forgot about the alphabet changeovers. But at least I'm told that: > It can be written in Serbian Cyrillic or Gaj's Latin alphabet, whose thirty letters mutually map one-to-one, and the orthography is highly phonemic in all standards. Though digraphs spoil the clarity somewhat. Which reminded me that I should check what Kazakhstan is doing to its language. They seem to at least have avoided the eldritch monstrosity of Polish with ‘Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz’ and the like ( this video ). But they are still setting themselves up for English-language people pretending they can pronounce anything Latin-looking—despite English itself demanding you memorize the dictionary twice, for speaking and writing. So Kazakhstan will soon have its own great writer Karel Kaypek.
The interaction brings to mind Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz: this video (from the Polish comedy film "How I Unleashed World War II")
> I always felt that Polish words were just too long You might like the movie about Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz: this video
Oh yes, Polish, the difficulty is shown in this 1:19 slice from a movie: "Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz " -- this video