2007-02-27 16:53:04 · 4 answers · asked by Skinny 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Guesswork.
Sounds like a Slavic language, maybe Polish? "Nowe" = "new". "Pita" - could that mean "bird"? ("Ptitsa" means "bird" in Russian).
I googled it to see if I could find the phrase and check my guess. First result was to find the phrase in a Polish sentence about a sports team (website identifier ended in "pl" which stands for Poland in an URL). So far, so good.
What about meaning? I'll stick with my guess that "nowe" is "new" in Polish. Now I'll look for an online Polish-English dictioary or word list to check the meaning of "pita."
"Pita" in Polish translates as "drunk" in English. "Nowe" is indeed "new." "New drunk" doesn't seem likely to me, but perhaps it has and is a construction that makes sense in Polish for something that would be expressed differently in English, e.g., somebody who is not really soused, but is a fresh drunk, i.e., someone who isn't usually drunk, but who is drunk on this occasion. Still seems a stretch to me.
I came across PITA (in caps) in an English-language article about tax treaties with Poland, where it is an abbreviation for Personal Income Tax Act. If it is a mixture of English and Polish it might make sense, i.e., the new Personal Income Tax Act. But that seems a stretch to me too, though these days it's probably more frequent that English and another language could be mixed in specialist writing.
If something better doesn't turn up, my suggestion is that you find someone who really knows Polish and ask him/her to set you straight on this.
Afterthought, after checkiing the other answers: if "nowe" is also "story," then would "nowe pita" possibly mean "story [about a] drunk"? Would make more sense to me than my other suggestions.
PS: Foregive me if you think I shouldn't guess. I do this thing as a mental exercise to keep my mind as sharp as I can, as I am now on the brink of old age. And when I do it in public, I give fair warning and identify it as a process of guesswork and checking.
2007-02-27 17:18:21 · answer #1 · answered by silvcslt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nowe is "short stories" in Polish
Pita is a Polish Town
2007-02-27 17:08:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Polish, means a new.... something
2007-02-27 17:07:05 · answer #3 · answered by QQ dri lu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pain in the a**
2014-07-25 14:18:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋