"Mężczyzna pojawia się tylko w nocy."

Translation: The man appears only at night.

[Dirack]

There should be a poll to gauge how many people read this as a horror scenario and how many read this as 'sexy times' :D

[mechgunz]

I immediately thought of The Nightman Cometh.

[BenYoung84]

Anyone who doesn't think vampire immediately is mentally deranged.

[Ollyfer]

What about the Old Lamplighter? This, beside almost every horror movie, was my first thought.

As for vampires, we might have to be more sympathetic to those poor creatures.

[Crimthann__]

It might be a social drama about the hardworking man

[DevilInThe]

Instant image of Dracula in my head

[Kah00y]

Scary Bruh Moment

[skinimin]

I think "shows up" would be right too?

[Jellei]

In this context seems acceptable, it's added now.

[AndrewWawr1]

Batman?

[chce_polski]

Oczywiście! To samo myślałem.

[sirwootalot]

Could "pojawia się" also translate as "show himself" in English (ie, "he showed himself only at night")?

[Jellei]

Hmmm... seems to me that it's very similar, but I would use the more literal translation of "pokazuje się".

[DanielGarbin]

Why not "the man appears 'just' at night?"

[Jellei]

I don't know, it seems rather too strange to me...

[cosmicstresshead]

Sounds okay to me, maybe gives a slight emphasis on when he appears rather than who appears, but it's definitely valid in English. Does this word order in Polish have any specific emphasis?

[Jellei]

Okay, after a second thought - added.

Well, the only emphasis is on 'the night being the only time he appears', so it looks the same as in English to me.

[Euhan1]

It must have been him Flash and the Pan sang about...

[ADJD4]

They mostly come out at night. Mostly...

[MsenRezaee]

Reminded me of Ted Bundy

[Nico515253]

'by' night acceptable?

[Jellei]

OK, added.

[George829445]

"only appears" is semantically the same ?

[Jellei]

Yes, it works as well.

[AidenCotnam]

Spooky!

[orexan]

So I misheard and chose "pojawiła" and it didn't even call it a typo. Was very confused to see the English translation. Must be a bug?

[Jellei]

Sounds like a bug. If something similar happens to you again, could you please provide a screenshot?

We used to have this problem a lot, then it was fixed, but recently I've been seeing similar comments again. We'd need some proof to show the developers, though.