Polish

1800s, that's where we're stuck right now because we're talking about The Doll.

It's a new Polish Netflix miniseries in the same vein of The Gilded Age, Bleak House, The Grey House.

It takes place in the late 1870s, early 1880s,

right? Yeah, I mean, it was a periodical serialization story and it came out between the years of 1887 to 1889.

She specifically wants to join sort of a women's emancipation movement.

And ironically, they want nothing to do with her.

Yeah, I know that this was I know that that goes against it, but this was supposed to have kind of a feminist edge to it, because I do know that while the book is like revered in Poland, it's seen as possibly the greatest Polish literature ever made.

There are some people that are like it's kind of anti-feminist if you were to look at the story itself.

So They would take the lingua franca, in this case of Alexander the Great Greek, in case of all their time under the Muslims, Arabic or Persian, and they would use these languages, but they always maintained Hebrew.

In the Eastern European context, they're going to have Yiddish, and they're also going to speak Polish and German and all these different languages.

And so because of how literate and linguistically advanced successful the male Jews were, this always gave them an advantage over their local residents, right? A lot of people didn't speak as many languages, only the highly educated, but because the Jewish community was so well-read, they did.

So eventually what you get here is the dividing up of the Middle East.

Yes, hamper.

Number eight, when pronounced differently, what word might refer to a language of 45 million native speakers or something you might pick up in the beauty aisle of, say, a CVS, a pharmacy, but not, like, it's not medicine? That answer is Polish or Polish.

Yes, Polish, Polish, nail polish or Polish, Polish jokes.

Yes.

And the bonus questions.

Certain characters only ever appear at the beginning of a word, and others only at the end, a level of regularity rarely seen in European languages.

Now, the manuscript's history begins with a man named Wilfred Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912 from the Jesuit College at Frascati, Italy.

Inside the book was a letter dated 1665 from Johannes Marcus Marcy, a rector of Charles University in Prague.

The letter claimed the book had once belonged to Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, who bought it for 600 gold ducats, which was an immense sum at the time, believing it to be the work of the 13th century polymath Roger Bacon.

Okay so we're heading towards something of a musical and cultural immersion right now and I have two of the brains behind it who I'm hoping are going to shine a bit of light on what it's all about.

Helen Beecroft from Leamington Music and David Kozlowski from the Polish Centre and from Belvedere are here.

Welcome to Life in Limbo.

Hi Tim, thanks for having us.

My pleasure.

Thank you for joining me today.

So we're going to talk about an upcoming festival of Polish culture, and that's our main topic today.

But let's backtrack slightly, because last week there was a concert with a strong Ukrainian theme.

I think is his name.

I'm Polish.

I should be better at pronouncing a Polish name.

You know, it is what it is.

This is published by Bandai Namco.

USA, Brazil, everywhere in the world.

When you were in Poland, did you learn a little Polish?

I knew some words.

At that moment, I really...

We've got a Spanish translation.

We've got a Polish translation.

And we've got a Turkish translation.

Fuck yeah.