I'm Italian, beginner, my gf she's Italian/Polish of second generation.
She's used to speak Polish only in her family so we are missing out a lot of slang.
In Italian we used this word "carino!" In the same way that a Japanese would say kawaii. It's something you can say for a puppy, but also for a man which is doing something nice in a gentle way.
Is there a way to say it in Polish?
My gf is Polish and she's the main reason why I'm learning Polish, although I have been grown up with a Polish nana, which taught me some word and phonetics, catching up the language was something I have always wanted to do, but never has the chance, sometimes life is a curios thing.
My question is about friendship and how language shaped the concept, me and my gf are Italian, she lived all her life in Italy, but both her parent are Polish.
She has a very peculiar view of friendship. She's one of the most solar person I know.
She has put a lot of time and effort in rekindling the friendship with some of her youth friend, especially the one she has considered close friend when she was young.
When I think about my early life I had few very close friend, that in Polish I would have called przyjaciel, but while I have still some kind of friendship with them, life naturally drove us apart and I have never considered important to reconnect with them.
I always considered this as normal. Then I learnt you guys have all different words to define a certain degree of friendship.
This words become important to define the level of relationship, we just use adjective to define a relationship but adjective are there to be added and removed as we please. A word is a more stable concept.
Do you feel that this view of friendship is cultural, or do you feel there is not really a difference between European culture about the concept of friendship?
Sono più sulla 40ina che sulla trentina e ammetto di non essermi mai molto curato del mio aspetto.
Mi tagliavo i capelli ogni 2-3 mesi, indosso vestiti molto pratici, tentando di abbinare i colori in maniera che molti reputano banale, ma non spiacevole. Faccio la barba 2-3 volte a settimana, visto che mi cresce molto frequentemente.
Pratico una discreta attività fisica perché uso la bicicletta per andare un po' ovunque ma soprattutto 3 volte a settimana vado a lavoro in bici (faccio circa 40 km a settimana).
Improvvisamente mi sono reso conto confrontandomi con persone di 5 anni più piccole di me, che il impegno estetico è considerato sciatto.
In primis non mi rifaccio le sopracciglia, che ammetto sono un po' folte, ma sono anche le mie in effetti. Poi faccio veramente poco sport e non mi vesto bene.
Considerato quante persone nell'ultimo decennio abbiano fatto fortuna con centri estetici e ricostruzioni unghie, mi chiedo se siamo di fronte ad un cambiamento sociale.
Oppure sono semplicemente sempre stato sciatto io.