My fellow Poles… Why do we call this symbol “monkey”?
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My fellow Poles… Why do we call this symbol “monkey”?
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Posted by mario_kart_player
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Małpa and nothing more.
my place calls it what is in polish ślimak
IDK but my working theory is because of the perceived tail
Bo ma ogon
If you use your imagination it looks like a monkey with a long tail. Not Polish but I can see that.
Because of long tail, I think
Obvious it has a long tail haha
https://preview.redd.it/78gm7unnmqgg1.png?width=314&format=png&auto=webp&s=93ef4551bb58623bb56f56fce22417a5bdb1b073
No need to thank me for the technical sketch.
it fuckin looks like a monkey…
Well, in Spanish, it’s “monito” (little monkey), and in Dutch: “apestaartje” (little monkey tail).
I heard that there as a contest for the best name for this new symbol. And “monkey” won.
In the begining it was “monkey tail”. Evolved into “monkey”
‘couse it’s black
I hope this helps (look at tail)
https://preview.redd.it/8f27r83toqgg1.png?width=163&format=png&auto=webp&s=c13e138f0994068f008b5a2427178e14835a2d96
well in hungarian we call it “worm” xd
“Myszka” was already taken and “Szczur” doesn’t sound that nice.
Boring answer? It’s not only Polish who call it monkey, also it looks like monkey.
Fun fact? Czechs calls it “rolled marinated herring” (zavináč).
[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C5%82pa_(znak_pisarski)](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C5%82pa_(znak_pisarski))
It clearly looks like monkey.
Pretty self-explanatory: looks like a monkey tail. Although we probably copied the homework from Germans who call it a “monkey tail” and came up with it comparing it to spider monkeys’ tails specifically
https://preview.redd.it/evtxc04grqgg1.jpeg?width=526&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0fe38eb29c36bbbcba1aec13ab4b20228f547c91
In Belarusian we call it snail
https://preview.redd.it/twfbgopqrqgg1.png?width=1116&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d80b8a4875591b61da2e4e456755a1560c2facb
https://preview.redd.it/dc0suldttqgg1.png?width=498&format=png&auto=webp&s=72ca8d644eae6a2afacc6bac4c2d9e08f7d0431d
it’s black