Wisława Szymborska

[krasnoludek]

Wisława Szymborska, my favorite poet, died today at the age of 88. They cite in full the poem about the cat whose owner has died, which is one of my favorites

Comments

[psifenix]

Ah yes there is only one dialect of POLISH as all newspaper editors should know from their BASIC courses on slavic history. This is the famed BAG-INSKY dialect.

[jcreed]

Seriously, though, is there a dialect where ł becomes /m/? I've never heard of such a thing. ł as /l/, sure, but even then, ł as /w/ is pretty much standard, I thought.

[lingboy]

I don't think there is any variability with nasals in Polish. There might be variants where "ł" is still phonetically [ł], a velarized lateral.

/w/ > [m] / _Ṽ (nasal vowels) in Trique and in several Mixtec dialects. So, this is possible, but not in Polish.

[jcreed]

is 'velarized' the same thing that's informally called 'dark ell'?

[psifenix]

But seriously, poets are cool people!