ethnic expressions

[ROBERT A ROTHSTEIN]

>
> Polish, of course, has yet another wonderful ethnic expression for the
>  incomprehensible, namely
> "tureckie kazanie" as in "siedziec jak na tureckim kazaniu.
>
        Also:  "...na niemieckim kazaniu" (...at a German sermon),
supposedly connected with the days when German predominance in
the urban population of Cracow was waning, but the sermons were
still given in German.
                                Bob Rothstein