Language / Capitalization of Cie, Ciebie, and others [17]

Who told you this, young man? :)
Take a random book - are the pronouns capitalised? Naaaah.

Language / Capitalization of Cie, Ciebie, and others [17]

Not at all.
You capitalise these words when you care about/like/respect the person you're writing to. Usually in personal letters.

Travel / Polish spa resorts [10]

I've never been to the saunas in Sopot myself but from what I've heard you're not allowed to get in if you're wearing a swimming suit... You need to be naked. So I guess you can't treat all the spas in Poland in the same way.

Genealogy / Rogaklski [27]

The name (and its variations) is pretty common in Poland... You'll find a lot of relatives when you start to search :D

Work / How much does a WEBDESIGNER earn in a month at a normal company in Poland [10]


I'm sure someone's going to come up with a proper answer soon :) Be patient ;)

Work / How much does a WEBDESIGNER earn in a month at a normal company in Poland [10]

I don't know how much but I know that all the people working in the IT business in Poland earn really decent money!

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



Are you sure??? I'd never stress the middle syllable!!! RokENrol? Sounds stupid! :/ I'd stress the last one.

Language / Using e or ę at the end of words [12]


Only when the context is unknown. Otherwise it's unnecessary and sounds unnatural (unless for emphatic purposes, which you already know).

Language / Using e or ę at the end of words [12]


Yeah, that's a good point! Don't say "ja rozumię" - it sounds more than awful!!! ;)
Still, I know many educated people who use this form! :/ It's a plague!

Language / Using e or ę at the end of words [12]


If you have "to kosztuje" then it's the third person singular ('to'=it), thus you'll never need to use the letter 'ę' at the end. You need to use it in the first person singular (e.g. ja rysuję [but on rysuje] [I'm drawing/he's drawing]).

When it comes to nouns, you can encounter 'ę' at the end of words in the accusative case (in the feminine gender), e.g. Kupię książkę (I'll buy a book).

Language / Cases, Genders, Nominative, Instrumental...WHY? [40]

*handing the thread over to the experts...*

Language / Cases, Genders, Nominative, Instrumental...WHY? [40]

Consider yourself lucky. I had a course in Old English at university - 9 months long!!! :P It was a nightmare! Suffice to say I don't remember ANYTHING! ;)

Language / Cases, Genders, Nominative, Instrumental...WHY? [40]


Yeah! Good luck with this one! :D

HWÆT, WE GAR-DEna in geardagum,
þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas, syððanærest wearð
feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah,
oð þæt him æghwylc ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan; þæt wæs god cyning!
Ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned
geong in geardum, þone God sende
folce to frofre; fyrenðearfe ongeat,
þe hie ær drugon aldorlease
lange hwile; him þæs Liffrea,
wuldres Wealdend woroldare forgeaf,
Beowulf wæs breme --- blæd wide sprang---
Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in.
Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcean,
fromum feohgiftumon fæder bearme

Language / Cases, Genders, Nominative, Instrumental...WHY? [40]


I can't sleep.


???


I bet it's all about me :P

Language / Cases, Genders, Nominative, Instrumental...WHY? [40]


Examples please.


Seems I have.

Language / Cases, Genders, Nominative, Instrumental...WHY? [40]


It's actually the other way round (at least that's what I've been taught).
Polish is so complex because it's way behind most of modern European languages in terms of evolution, which naturally leads to simplifying the rules, losing case endings etc. etc.


Our mutual mindreading is not a scam it seems... !!! :P

Love / Some questions about polish girls (laska's) [4]


Polish people are not as homogenous as you think! Have you tried asking her if SHE is religious? And what does religion have to do with showing affection? (unless you wanted to have sex with her in broad daylight with a group of her friends watching :P)


Any relationship can work if the people involved want to make it work!


Cultural differences between Belgium and Poland??? Come on!!! We all live in the EU and (sadly for some people) we're getting more and more alike!

Life / Polish Train Travel - Scary? [101]


Yep, they're quite ok, and usually pretty new.

Life / Polish Train Travel - Scary? [101]

The IC trains are a bit more expensive and they don't stop between Warsaw and Gdańsk.

Life / Smoking ban - will this be coming to Poland like other EU countries? [183]


Haha! Maybe it's time for you to think about giving up smoking again? :)

Life / Smoking ban - will this be coming to Poland like other EU countries? [183]


You clearly don't realise what a pain it is for a non-smoker to live in a country where his/her rights are not observed.


That's what you call freedom of choice? I don't want such freedom!
Clubs are not bad for me. Cigarette smoke is bad for me. Smoking and clubbing shouldn't be inextricably intertwined!

Life / Smoking ban - will this be coming to Poland like other EU countries? [183]


I'd have to think about it. What I had in mind was that forcing me to inhale carcinogenic smoke is equally dangerous as poisoning me or beating me up, which is normally punishable.


Are you suggesting I should stop going out? There are NO clubs in my city where smoking is banned! I'm too young to sit at home and wait till the situation changes! :/

Life / Smoking ban - will this be coming to Poland like other EU countries? [183]

What I can't understand is that there are still so many places when smokers can legally pose a threat to my health and bear no consequences! Why should I be forced to breathe in the cigarette smoke when I go out? If you want to kill yourselves with fags, I don't mind - just don't pester non-smokers with your disgusting addiction!

Polonia / German nation - degradation or just deviation? Your opinions? [66]

If this helps you, Poland isn't better either. A few years ago there was a case of a married couple who murdered their children and kept their bodies in barrels (there were 4 or 5 of them if I remember correctly...).

You can't accuse all Austrians or Germans of being monsters just because a few random citizens of these particular countries committed horrifying and unimaginable crimes. Again, it's the problem of the human kind, nationality has nothing to do with it.

Life / Polish Train Travel - Scary? [101]

You're right, I was thinking about the Intercity train - it does stop several times but only in Warsaw and Gdańsk - no stops in between (from what I remember).


It's longer now (because of the repairs)... And you can't say it's not slow!! In a civilised country you need about 2 hrs to cover such a distance. 4 hrs is way too long!!

Life / Polish Train Travel - Scary? [101]


I don't know... I travel 2nd class and it's pretty ok - neat and nice.


There are no stops but the train is slow due to the terrible state of the rails... :/ Some repairs have started but it's a long way off till the train can reach proper speed there...

Life / Polish Train Travel - Scary? [101]


Yeah... way too expensive and way too slow :(

Language / Which case for adjectives? [47]


Never! "dwoma" is used only with the masculine gender!

Language / My reading and writing is awful - POLISH IS HARD TO LEARN [13]


Gross exaggeration! Utterly stupid ;) I don't think we get fluent in Polish later (or earlier for that matter) than any other natives in their own languages.

UK, Ireland / WHY DO POLISH PEOPLE THAT COME TO ENGLAND CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH? [118]


You can't generalise. What you see in England is a certain social group (again, I'm not talking about ALL Poles in the UK) - uneducated, desperate to earn money to support their families etc. etc. You can't say 100% of Poles are like that.

I've started my job not so long ago and I already earn decent money. No need to look for it in England!


It's partially true, but some people do survive here and a lot of them lead quite decent lives actually!