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Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz (HD)

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz (HD) on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2020–2025.

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A colorized clip from the 1970 Polish comedy film 'How I Unleashed World War II' in which a character must pronounce the tongue-twisting name Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz for a Gestapo officer.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Mostly posted as a joke in threads about Polish, Unicode or hard-to-pronounce names, and loved as a comedy scene.

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discussed on HN
2020–2025
“I love this movie scene”
— nosianu, Dec 2025, in “Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive”

What HN commenters said

5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

nosianuDec 2025Recommends

Ah, Polish. I love this movie scene, which I learned about here on HN some time ago: "Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz" -- ▶ this video

in “Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive” · View on HN

nosianuDec 2025Joke

Oh yes, Polish, the difficulty is shown in this 1:19 slice from a movie: "Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz " -- ▶ this video

in “Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian” · View on HN

PolizeiposauneNov 2024Joke

The interaction brings to mind Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz: ▶ this video (from the Polish comedy film "How I Unleashed World War II")

in “Charset="WTF-8"” · View on HN

aasasdApr 2021Joke

Ah, well, I should've written ‘Russian-Latin confusion’—forgot about the alphabet changeovers. But at least I'm told that: > It can be written in Serbian Cyrillic or Gaj's Latin alphabet, whose thirty letters mutually map one-to-one, and the orthography is highly phonemic in all standards. Though digraphs spoil the clarity somewhat. Which reminded me that I should check what Kazakhstan is doing to its language. They seem to at least have avoided the eldritch monstrosity of Polish with ‘Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz’ and the like ( ▶ this video ). But they are still setting themselves up for English-language people pretending they can pronounce anything Latin-looking—despite English itself demanding you memorize the dictionary twice, for speaking and writing. So Kazakhstan will soon have its own great writer Karel Kaypek.

in “Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols” · View on HN

emmelaichNov 2020Joke

> I always felt that Polish words were just too long You might like the movie about Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz: ▶ this video

in “A Cyrillic orthography for the Polish language” · View on HN

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Film & TV clipsLanguage & linguisticspolish cinemacomedy scenepronunciationhow i unleashed world war ii