News / What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]

Let's get this straight - Britain did not declare war on Germany following Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939?

News / What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]

Actually, it was Britain that declared war on Poland because of the two thousand year long hatred that Britain had for Poland. Spiteful bunch, aren't we! Germany and the USSR were merely our pawns.

Tell me that it's nobody's fault, nobody's fault, nobody's fault but mine.

Food / Chalwa - how is it called (Chatwa or something) [8]

I think it's best eaten in small quantities as, although it can be nice, it can leave a residue in the mouth. I prefer it with pistachios. It's kind of eastern Mediterranean thing. Not central Mediterranean. Eastern.

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]

I could have guessed that - I was just wondering what your spelling there was an example of? Sorry about ending my sentence with the word "of".

Don't peasants talk about corn, oxen and wooden fence posts?

Love / How to date Polish girl/boy ?!!? [13]

Glad to hear it. (I mean read it).

How to date Polish girl/boy ?!!?
So what you have to do is what she's doing.
It's just that she's not going to tell you what it is.

Maybe because every individual is different.

Love / How to date Polish girl/boy ?!!? [13]

So are things going well, sweet_g?

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]


Eh?

News / What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]

Love of hatred is hatred of love. Make love not war, as they said.

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There was a list of all the wars I have fought. I won them all, by the way.

Real Estate / People who bought in Katowice Oak teraces phase I and phase II [102]

I assume thi is about a housing development. Is it a bit of a dąb?

Language / POLONIANISMS? [11]

I think it's some sort of code-switching. It's quite clear that I know "Bardzo dobrze", but for some reason, feel like pretending that I don't, despite being able to say far more complicated stuff in Polish. (Still not as good as I'd like to be).

Poglish (horrible sounding word) is under understandable to other Poles as it generally involves applying Polish grammar to English words. The same thing the other way around would have to be called something else. Sometimes I can't tell if an English word used in a Polish sentence is a borrowing that occurs a lot and is generally established (even if not accepted) or if it's there to make my life easier.

Mistakes like being on a wedding could come from speakers of any one of a variety of different languages.

Language / POLONIANISMS? [11]


.. is just one little bit of Latin contamination of the Polish language.

Language / POLONIANISMS? [11]

Pathetic.

Language / POLONIANISMS? [11]

What is Polonius3's name for this linguistic phenomenon?

- Jak się masz?
- Bardzo good.

Language / How do people mispronounce your Polish names? [60]

If I'm speaking English, I usually don't roll the r in anyone's name, and I usually miss it out entirely if it's before another consonant or in the final position of an utterance. That's just an English thing though.


Easy!

Life / Poles are very polite nation! [47]

The cue's what? (... and that's just the tip of the... iceberg?)

Some are polite, some aren't. I've had trouble with one or two who couldn't seem to grasp some things about politeness (particularly by swearing too much).

News / POLES the BLACKS of EUROPE? [104]

I actually remember saying these words: "You're not a gangster from Brooklyn, Bartek. You're from a small town in northeastern Poland."

Is Disco Polo big amongst African Americans?

News / POLES the BLACKS of EUROPE? [104]


Doesn't he have a black nose?

USA, Canada / Why would someone leave Poland for the US? [120]


Most trees are dicotyledons. Palms, like lillies (in the widest sense of the term), grasses (and their allies as some people call sedges and rushes), bromeliads and so on, are monocots. I wouldn't go as far as to say that palms are grass.

You can't mow a palm. Lawns don't give you dates or coconuts.

Work / Living on the certain income in Poland [30]


... and the missus?


She pays for that then?

USA, Canada / Why would someone leave Poland for the US? [120]

Culture

Every country and every individual has culture. It is a matter of perspective. The US has its own cultures and those of other cultures. It is those other cultures that people took to the US that become diluted or just estranged from developments in the countries from which immigrants to the US took them.

News / Helena Wolinska dead [90]

Is there anyone else still alive today, regardless of which "side" they were on, in a similar position to her?

News / Helena Wolinska dead [90]

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Language / The Longest Polish word?? [23]

A shortest word thread just wouldn't have the same problems.

a
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Language / POLISH VERBS RICHER THAN ENGLISH ONES!? [12]

Yesterday, when at a loss to explain the English expression "as the crow flies", I said something like "prosto jak ptak... skrut?"

Food / Most important meal of the day (Polish breakfast recipes) [13]


What's "a flippin' shedload" in Polish?

The flaki made a pleasant change from bread, sausage and ham... for a while. I think the bready stuff was the second course.

News / Helena Wolinska dead [90]

Polish-born Jewish or something like that. I'm sure some people will have their typical field day with this.

Food / Most important meal of the day (Polish breakfast recipes) [13]

I had flaki for breakfast once. You don't want a recipe for that.
Hmmm... breakfast recipes - is that "How to boil an egg"?

I heard a story about a man in Mexico putting a sandwich bag filled with water directly onto hot embers. The bag didn't rupture are fall open. It gradually came to the boil, the man popped an egg in it for three minutes or so, then removed the bag, shelled and ate the egg, and folded the bag up and put it in his pocket ready for next time.

Some people will believe anything. Flaki for breakfast? Surely not!

News / Helena Wolinska dead [90]

Odd how "advanced age" and it being "a long time ago" can be used as excuses.
Odd? Or sickening?


Copy the link and pop an h at the beginning.

Pal of Stalin's apparently.

I will, however add, that saying this is good news is the wrong way to look at it. She should have been tried for what she did. She lived the rest of her life in legal-immunity if I believe correctly. Death is not a punishment in such circumstances. Death comes to us all eventually.

Love / Who makes a good Polish wife? [75]

Who makes a good Polish wife?


Got any recipes "How to make a Polish wife"?

Language / POLISH LANGUAGE POLICE? [9]

Why? When there are languages with spellings as bizarre as those found in English and French, why change? Polish orthography makes a lot of sense (once you get used to all the cz sz rz and the i for softening consonants and so on). There are only a few minor details that seem superfluous.

Change language, change thinking.

or

Let language develop naturally, let thinking develop naturally.