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25 May 2025, 12:29 pm

Two of them are the soles of your feet.



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25 May 2025, 1:07 pm

That's only two.


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25 May 2025, 2:26 pm

Why do they call your feet soles and your hands palms


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25 May 2025, 2:38 pm

Speaking of feet, we, Poles, have just one name for fingers and toes - it's palce. A single finger/toe is palec. When you talk about a toe in Polish, you need to precise that you are talking about a foot's finger :lol: Like: palec - a finger but palec stopy is a foot's finger so just a toe :D



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25 May 2025, 2:45 pm

:lol:

I bet it's funny to you that we have separate words for them


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25 May 2025, 4:06 pm

Quite a bit :lol: I remember I was surprised as a child when I was told by our teacher you have two separate words for those.



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25 May 2025, 4:15 pm

Yeah I can imagine it was funny :lol:

That's why you learned it easy


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25 May 2025, 4:31 pm

We have also just one single word for heaven and sky and for language and tongue. The same goes for the zipper, locker and castle - when you say the word zamek, you need to precise if you mean a castle, a zipper or a locker :lol:

Once I saw a question on some Christian, I believe, message board: "what have you done for heaven today?" I think it was a question about the members' good deeds but I needed to think a bit to guess from the context if it was heaven indeed or just the sky - the word niebo means both.



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25 May 2025, 4:48 pm

I believe the souls you refer to are labelled A, R & E



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25 May 2025, 4:50 pm

I thought they were holes


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25 May 2025, 4:55 pm

There is a species of flatfish called the sole. My dad used to fish for them.

Of course, the fluke is the duke of sole. :fish: 8)



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25 May 2025, 5:00 pm

In my town, there is that one doctor, a shrink, whose last name if translated from Polish into English, means literally "sole" :D



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25 May 2025, 6:39 pm

There was a cobbler in Leicester who had a sign in his shop saying that he could save your sole and that he would even dye for you. Usually I hate promotional gimmicks, but for some reason I liked that one.

I've only got 2 soles unless you count the ones on my so-called carpet slippers. But I don't think there's a soul inside me or anybody else, because after all these thousands of years nobody's been able to demonstrate that there is such a thing, and as far as I'm concerned imagining there is one doesn't make anything easier to understand.



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25 May 2025, 7:07 pm

I don't have three souls.

I have 9. 8 were surgically implanted.


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26 May 2025, 2:44 am

ToughDiamond wrote:
There was a cobbler in Leicester who had a sign in his shop saying that he could save your sole and that he would even dye for you. Usually I hate promotional gimmicks, but for some reason I liked that one.

I've only got 2 soles unless you count the ones on my so-called carpet slippers. But I don't think there's a soul inside me or anybody else, because after all these thousands of years nobody's been able to demonstrate that there is such a thing, and as far as I'm concerned imagining there is one doesn't make anything easier to understand.


Yeah but I like to think about these things I do


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26 May 2025, 3:08 am

Did you hear about the fire in the shoe factory? Many souls were lost. It was started by some heel.