Talk:blokers

blok

@Vininn126 The semantic shift is easy to guess I think: "blok" here is used in the meaning of "blok mieszkalny" = "block of flats", so it could actually be analysed as "bloker" + "-s" (the "-s" could be thought of as a colloquialising suffix detached from new English borrowings such as "czips", "Bitels", "nuggets", etc.), with "bloker" itself being simply "blok" + "-er", perhaps only imitating the English word to sound more cool. iykwim but I don't know if my analysis is 100% correct Shumkichi (talk) 15:19, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

I've also heard that it's cause they "block the way", but the "block of flats" sounds more reasonable to me. If you can find a source, that'd be dope. Vininn126 (talk) 15:20, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

ooh, i've never heard of the first one xd the more you know. Hmm, i've just checked polish wiktionary and they seem to partially agree with me that the word was created by imitating similar borrowings from english. hmmm, so if they're correct, your analysis is also correct but perhaps we could add that "by surface analysis blablabla bloker + -s"? Also, they suggest that the etymology can be found in " Hasło „blokers” w: Andrzej Markowski, Radosław Pawelec, Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych i trudnych, Langenscheidt, Warszawa 2007, →ISBN", cool bro, but it costs 109 zł d-__________________________________-b Shumkichi (talk) 15:25, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

I got it from the Wikipedia page. i suppose, what other words use -s? Also, I bet we could honestly just add the "block of flats" thing? Does that source you linked mention that?