Talk:Poliça

Name of the band

I just wanted to tell you that we have not such a word like "polica" in polish. We don't even have this funny "c" with tail, I guess that's rather turkish. Only similar word which is crossing my mind in while is "policja", but it means "police". So I insist to delete this phrase about name of the band, because it's a bulls*it ;) Thank you.

I don't understand Polish language at all. So I'm not sure whether if you're right or wrong about the issue. Anyway, the sentence 81.134.109.139 added recently ([1]) was unsourced. Please find the source and add it. Thank you. 114.165.35.116 (talk) 12:14, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Even if you don't understand Polish it's easy to see here that Polish doesn't use ç. Ç is used in Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, French, Friulian, Kurdish, Ligurian, Occitan, Portuguese, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Zazaki and Manx. But I always find it funny when people try to be edgy by using foreign-looking words without knowing their meaning :) --Kristian 08:04, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Edit to add: dict.pl shows nothing for poliça, but suggests polisa which apparently means policy (in the sense of insurance; policy in the political sense would be polityka). So it would seem the band simply chose a deliberate misspelling of a word that doesn't mean what they think it means, probably to look cooler. --Kristian 10:02, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Poliça is a funny, joke way to say Polícia/Police in Brazil. I actually came do Wikipedia to find out if that was the reason for the band's name. CrisDias (talk) 20:48, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

There are several other interesting points in relation to the name:

• An interview (here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8P5lC_jE8 ) said that they wanted something unique, and lead singer Channy had a file on her computer that corrupted following a computer crash that came back as Poliça (sounds completely made-up to me, but it's citable so I've added).
• Polica is the name of several actual places in Slovenia, and at least one in Poland (a mountain).
• Furthermore, this could be an example of "emphasis characters" (a la Diaeresis (diacritic)#Use of the umlaut for special effect) / Metal umlaut), so shouldn't necessarily be taken too seriously as a real word or spelling.
• Unless there are cites, then this should be removed, or even better a cite found. Typically on WP, if there are many different explanations from different sources, then we list ALL the possible naming reasons accordingly WITH a cite for each one, as this cannot be determined conclusively one way or another. Jimthing (talk) 21:18, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

The ç in Poliçia should stay despite all opinions. A band chooses what it sees fit as a name and chooses a certain way of spelling. It is ludicrous for us to say it is wrong and object to it. This matter has nothing to do with correct spelling or grammar or actual meaning of a word in English or some other language or if it actually exists in a language dictionary in this form or not. The band has released two studio albums to date and both carry the ç. See File:Poliça - Give You the Ghost.jpg and File:Polica - Shulamith.png. End of discussion. Those who type Polica wil be led to a disambiguation page and under Music they click Poliça. Those who try Polica (band) instead, they will be redirected correctly. Problem solved. werldwayd (talk) 00:13, 7 November 2013 (UTC) werldwayd (talk) 00:41, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

What you aren't getting, Werldwayd, is that the article acts as though this is a word in Polish and it isn't really a word in Polish. Something should be added to make it clear that the singer's explanation of their band's name's meaning is not accurate linguistically. A line, perhaps, like 'Despite this explanation, the word 'poliça' is not an actual Polish word.' I checked into it, and it's really not. It means 'shelves' in Slovenian. 50.58.161.60 (talk) 19:16, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Fair enough. Your addition in the article was valuable and certainly makes things clearer both ways. werldwayd (talk) 19:43, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

I'll just add that poliça, if the ç is pronounced like /s/ as it is in French, sounds *exactly* like polisa in Polish. It doesn't seem unreasonable for a musical artist to take artistic license in spelling, even using foreign letters (think Mötley Crüe). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.244.26.41 (talk) 01:42, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

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