Polish: rajskie kurkiEnglish translation: dwarf hens 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | Polish term or phrase: | rajskie kurki | | English translation: | dwarf hens | | Entered by: | genre |
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Livestock / Animal Husbandry / gatunki zwierząt | | Polish term or phrase: rajskie kurki | | kobieta opowiada, jak wykonuje pisanki, i zaleca, że "jajka muszą być małe, od rajskich kurek". |
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| Clarification request(s) and responsegenre: 2:03pm Jul 20, 2006: Się zastanawiam, - W tych dwóch linkach Caryl jest mowa o egzotycznych ptakach, a kobieta wykonuje pisanki na wsi na Suwalszczyźnie...:-/
Caryl Swift: 2:16pm Jul 20, 2006: Well,if she's been talking about exotic birds then could she be talking about paradise birds?Then there would be a kind of humour or irony I guess-either hers,or the portrayal of her-does the text have that kind of tone?If not,then maybe it's a kind of
Caryl Swift: 2:17pm Jul 20, 2006: of domestic fowl, as MrMarDar suggests?
Marek Daroszewski (MrMarDar): 2:26pm Jul 20, 2006: Caryl, that's what my grandma called some of her fowl; I really don't think there is a Polish folk tradition to use eggs from New Guinea :-))
genre: 2:30pm Jul 20, 2006: yes, -
genre: 2:32pm Jul 20, 2006: that must be a kind of domestc fowl, MrMarDar is right.
Caryl Swift: 2:47pm Jul 20, 2006: MrMarDar,I really don't think so either.But I can think of a hundred situations in which someone might say something like that-ironic,self-irony,humourous,in anger,in implied criticism of someone else's & graces etc. etc.,which is exactly why I asked
Caryl Swift: 2:47pm Jul 20, 2006: the question above! :-)
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