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Friday, November 17, 2017

stranger word of the day: PRESUMPTUOUS (Dustin from Stranger Things Season 2 doesn’t know what ‘presumptuous’ means.)



PRESUMPTUOUS – zarozumiały, arogancki (behaviour or a person that is too confident, arrogant and not showing enough respect)






DUSTIN: Hi, Max, I’m Dustin and this is…
LUCAS: Lucas.
MAX: Yeah, I know. The stalkers.
LUCAS: No, no, no, actually…we weren’t stalking you.
DUSTIN: We were just concerned because you’re new and all.
LUCAS: Yeah, yeah, yeah.. for your safety.
DUSTIN: There are a lot of bullies here.
LUCAS: So many bullies, it’s crazy.
DUSTIN: Yeah.
MAX: Is that why you’re wearing proton packs?
DUSTIN: Well, these don’t function. But I do have this handy-dandy little trap here. And look, it even opens and closes. Look, look, look… Voila! It’s cool, right? No? Okay. But, um… So we were talking last night, and you’re new here so you probably don’t have any friends to take you trick-or-treating, and you’re scared of bullies, so we were thinking that it would be okay if you come with us.
MAX: It’d be okay?
DUSTIN: Yeah. Our party’s a democracy and the majority voted you could come.
MAX: I didn’t realise it was such an honour to go trick-or-treating with you.
DUSTIN: Yeah, I mean, we know where to get the full-sized candy bars. We figured you’d want in.
MAX: That’s presumptuous of you.
DUSTIN: Yeah. Totally. Uh, so, um, you’ll come? We’re meeting at the Maple Street cul-de-sac at 7:00. That’s 7:00 on the dot. Presumptuous. That’s a good thing, right? Is it bad? Lucas, is it bad? Lucas? Son of a bitch, Lucas. Is it bad?


A STALKER – natręt, osoba prześladująca kogoś (a person who illegally follows and watches someone, especially a woman, over a period of time)
TO STALK – prześladować (to follow someone and watch what they do in an obsessive, dangerous way)
CONCERNED (FOR SOMEONE’S SAFETY) – zamartwiający się czymś (worried)
A BULLY – łobuz, tyran, ktoś, kto znęca się psychicznie nad słabszym (someone who hurts or frightens someone who is smaller or less powerful)
PROTON – proton (an atomic particle that has a positive electrical charge; protons and neutrons form the nucleus (jądro) of an atom which is surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons)
HANDY-DANDY – bajerancki (helpful or useful because of a clever trick or design)
THE MAJORITY – większość (more than half of a group)
FULL-SIZED – not just mini versions
CANDY BARS – batoniki (brick-shaped sweets  usually covered with chocolate and often containing nuts and caramel)
TO FIGURE – domyślić się (to guess)
TO WANT IN (on something) – chcieć się dołączyć (to want to be part of some kind of activity or plan)
______ OF YOU – z twojej strony (on your part)
CUL-DE-SAC – zaułek (a street or passage closed at one end; blind alley)
ON THE DOT – dokładnie, równo (exactly at this time)



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