(This might have been posted before) What kind of culture backround do you have.

I'm 50% German and 50% Norweigen.

a lot, MOSTLY Swedish, Swiss, Danish,with a little Puerto Rican (1/8), and a little Black (1/64th), and maybe some other things I forgot.....

Although I don't know the percentages,I'm Scotch-Irish,German,English and possibly some Dutch.It is also thought that there may be a little Native-American in there,too. :D

i have a lot. Scotish, English, Native American, German; i dont even remember the rest.

Italian
Armenian
Hungarian

English - Italian - Native American. I think something else, but I swear my Dad makes stuff up because he doesnt know himself. I swear he told me French one time, then a few years later hes like..French?! We're not French. Oy.

**** YOU. :)

Originally posted by PZelda: VICKI!!
I don't have a weird Polish last name. :D

I do. :p But most of them aren't weird, just long.

Like no one knows, but I'm 100% full blooded Polish. Yea, that's me.

I'm Dutch-Indonesian

Nearly half Irish

1/4 Italian

About 1/4 German and Ukrainian mixed

Irish and proud of it!

Originally posted by Original Prankster
I do. :p But most of them aren't weird, just long.

Like no one knows, but I'm 100% full blooded Polish. Yea, that's me.

edited because nobody needs to read what I originally posted more than a year ago. :mad:

People sure have trouble with names sometimes. My name is a simple, short, one syllable name, yet most people pronounce it wrong! I can't imagine having something more complicated, like a Polish name. These names really aren't that difficult!

Originally posted by PZelda: VICKI!!


There was a guy at my school with the last name Zegarzewski. People always had trouble pronouncing and spelling it.

Originally posted by Crimson_and_Clover
There was a guy at my school with the last name Zegarzewski. People always had trouble pronouncing and spelling it.


Maybe I spoke too soon. That might be a difficult one. Is it pronounced, "zay-gar-zoo-skee"?

I don't know what the percents of them are but I'm mostly German and Norwegian. I'm also a little bit English and French.

Originally posted by Crimson_and_Clover
There was a guy at my school with the last name Zegarzewski. People always had trouble pronouncing and spelling it.

Sorry, when I saw the spelling of that guy's last name, I couldn't help but laugh. I had a teacher when I was in preschool in the 80's that had the last name Zaremski - I thought THAT was strange. That one's news to me. :D

German, Irish, and English.

50% Italian, 25% Polish, 25% Ukranian

75% German
25% Welsh ,Scottish

Originally posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister
I don't know what the percents of them are but I'm mostly German and Norwegian. I'm also a little bit English and French.

Just guessing but are you from Wisconsin or Minnesota?;)

100% Persian

german
french
sioux indian

and I think there is some indian on my dad's side.

Originally posted by ~LadyJess~
50% Italian, 25% Polish, 25% Ukranian
Do you speak any Ukrainian?

I'm half-Irish, and also Italian, English, and Native American (only a small fraction - 1/8 or 1/16 or something like that.)

If you cross Jim Carrey, Lucille Ball, a tramp behind K-Mart, Gollum from the Lord of the Rings, a hermaphrodite stripper and doctor evil- you get me!

Originally posted by PZelda: VICKI!!
The ones I HAVE come across are all messed up in spelling. I knew someone a grade ahead of me who had the last name Nowatzki (I think), and one of the teachers had the last name Prozinski. That's just what I can think of offhand at the moment, there were more.

My mom has a Polish last name (the kind that ends in "y" and NOT "i"), and everybody spells her last name right except fora t the end!! It's always with the "i" at the end, never the "y". Even though it's not my last name, it irritates me to no end how people keep screwing up my mom's last name. :p

Well if the name ends in 'ski', it's always Polish. If it's 'sky', then that's either Russian, Ukranian, or Belorussian. There are a few exceptions to the 'y' thing, such as your mom, but that's rare since we're predominantly 'i'.

My dad's side of the family has an easy one to pronounce. Budz. (Pronounced Buds) A friend of mine has Krol. Mine's a little different, but since there's only like 30 people left in the world with it, I won't reveal it. Sorry, I can't risk my life knowing some people here might hunt me down and kill me. :p Kidding.

Originally posted by webuster
If you cross Jim Carrey, Lucille Ball, a tramp behind K-Mart, Gollum from the Lord of the Rings, a hermaphrodite stripper and doctor evil- you get me!

:rotflmao:

Originally posted by Cashodeen
Maybe I spoke too soon. That might be a difficult one. Is it pronounced, "zay-gar-zoo-skee"?

:lol: I like that you tried, but unfortunately, you have it wrong. :p You'd pronounce it 'Zeh-gah-zev-skee'.

It's kind of hard for you native English speakers to pronounce the 'rz' sound though. No one seems to get it right. Does anyone know how to speak French? You know how you say 'Je m'appelle Chris' in French? Well that's the 'rz' sound, the 'Je'. Or like 'Je t'adore' under my username. It's kind of like a hard z. I know it's hard to really understand without hearing it, but it's the best I can do in this situation.

English,Irish,Scottish,Welsh

I'm Scottish, Irish, German, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Cajun. So I guess I'm kind of like Heinz 57, a mixture of everything.

Originally posted by M82A1
Do you speak any Ukrainian?

Nope, none at all. My grandma used to speak it fluently because that's all her dad spoke but then he made her start talking in English to him and she forgot how to speak it. She can still read it and understand it but can't speak it. Weird I know.

Welsh, Irish, French (Creole if you want to be specific) and Swiss.

English
Irish
like .5% Scottish and like .2% Welsh. lol.

Originally posted by webuster
If you cross Jim Carrey, Lucille Ball, a tramp behind K-Mart, Gollum from the Lord of the Rings, a hermaphrodite stripper and doctor evil- you get me!

:lol:

50% Italian
25%Polish
25%Hungarian

German
Italian
French-Canadian
Polish
Belgian

Originally posted by ~LadyJess~
Nope, none at all. My grandma used to speak it fluently because that's all her dad spoke but then he made her start talking in English to him and she forgot how to speak it. She can still read it and understand it but can't speak it. Weird I know.

That is kinda weird how you can forget an entire language. I can only pronounce the letters and translate a few words but that's about it.

Originally posted by Original Prankster

:lol: I like that you tried, but unfortunately, you have it wrong. :p You'd pronounce it 'Zeh-gah-zev-skee'.

It's kind of hard for you native English speakers to pronounce the 'rz' sound though. No one seems to get it right. Does anyone know how to speak French? You know how you say 'Je m'appelle Chris' in French? Well that's the 'rz' sound, the 'Je'. Or like 'Je t'adore' under my username. It's kind of like a hard z. I know it's hard to really understand without hearing it, but it's the best I can do in this situation.

LOL, told you I spoke to soon! So the "zew" part of the name is not "ryhmes with " 'dew,' " but its pronounced "zev?" Interesting. And yes, I speak French, so I understand. :wave:

Originally posted by ~LadyJess~
She can still read it and understand it but can't speak it. Weird I know.

My grandma does that with Italian. I never even understood how that was possible.

Polish, Czech, and little English and Swiss

german, english, irish, and some country that starts w/ a B but it aint a country no more.

Puerto Rican, Dominican and Italian.