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  What it means

  “Forgetfulness isn’t an illness — it’s just that your legs ache.” A comic variant on the same theme: forgetting things isn’t a disease, but the constant walking to find them makes your legs hurt.

  Vocabulary

  • skleroza — forgetfulness (colloquial)
  • choroba — illness, disease
  • nogi — legs
  • boleć — to hurt, to ache

  Grammar note

  'Bolą' is the third-person plural present of 'boleć', agreeing with 'nogi' (plural). 'Tylko' here means 'it's just that'.

  Cultural context

  A humorous folk saying, often shared among older Poles with self-deprecating humour about memory.

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