Guessing Game: Win32 Type Names vs Polish Words

Description

A light-mode tweet by Valentin Ignatev (@valigo, verified): "Let's play a game - win32 types vs Polish language:" followed by a single-column uppercase list interleaving real Win32 API typedefs with Polish words and city names: LPCWSTR, PSZCZYNA, WCSLEN, WCZESNY, LPCTSTR, BYDGOSZCZ, WSTRZAS, HGDIOBJ, DOWOD, HWINSTA, DLUGOSC, LPCSTR, DWORD, KAL, LPWSTR, SZCZECIN, PCWSTR, BLAD, PUHALF, CHUJ, UHALF. The joke is that the Windows API's consonant-heavy Hungarian-notation typedefs (LPCWSTR = long pointer to const wide string, HGDIOBJ = GDI object handle, HWINSTA = window station handle) are visually indistinguishable from Polish vocabulary and toponyms like Pszczyna, Bydgoszcz, and Szczecin (plus 'błąd' = error, 'długość' = length, 'dowód' = proof, and one profanity)

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Hungarian notation, Polish vocabulary - Win32 was multilingual from day one, just never in anything a human could pronounce

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Hungarian notation, Polish vocabulary - Win32 was multilingual from day one, just never in anything a human could pronounce
Anonymous

Microsoft called it Hungarian notation; Poland would like a code review.
@moosschan 4mo

Trick question - all of them are polish words, some just happen to be win32 types
1. @Sympathy198 4mo
  
  wow
@RiedleroD 4mo

…blad is even a word in austro-bavarian
@RiedleroD 4mo

also I think it's meant to say bład (note the difference: ł vs. l)
1. @RiedleroD 4mo
  
  correction: błąd
2. dev_meme 4mo
  
  yes, that means mistake in Polish
  
  @RiedleroD 4mo
  
  yes I know
@blue_bonsai 4mo

Blyat